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Premium LUV.ME auction

Continuing on Date.me, Love.me, Luv.me post:

Premium LUV.ME is being AUCTIONED now at SEDO (ending on 15th of January). To visit the bidding page please go to:

https://www.sedo.co.uk/auction/auction_detail.php?tracked=&partnerid=44384&language=e&auction_id=47825

Background information relevant to LUV.ME:

* date.me went for $70,000
* love.me went for $32,000
* luv.me = love.me (common English)
* it is a three-letter domain (the shortest you can have with .me)
* gTLDs (luv.com, luv.net, luv.org, luv.info, luv.us, luv.biz) are parked as basic sites
> no trademarks - no lawsuit - no competition
> sounds better - as a statement - as a jingle
> good for advertisement - impossible to forget
> certain.ly a catchy phrase
* search for "luv" produces 83,800,000 hits on Google

* LUV is commonly used in English. According to Wikipedia, Luv or LUV may refer to:
* Luv (song), a song by Janet Jackson.
* Luv (television series), a BBC sitcom.
* Luv, a Broadway play and 1967 film.
* The Dutch pop group Luv'
* The Chevrolet LUV, a "light utility vehicle"
* Linux Users of Victoria (http://www.luv.asn.au)
* The New York Stock Exchange symbol for Southwest Airlines
* The IATA airport code of Dumatubin Airport in Langgur, Kai Islands, in the Maluku province of Indonesia
* Large unilamellar vesicle: a type of phospholipid bilayer micelle.
* The L*u*v* color space, a perceptually uniform color space used in computer graphics
* A heart-shaped friendship token used on Bebo that can be giving out daily
* The windward or "upstream" side of a dune; compare "alluvial"
* Lava (Ramayana), a son of Rama in Hindu mythology

And final.ly: luv.me is about love, shorter but sure.ly memorable.

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Posted on January 12th, 2009 • Category: .ME, Examples • Tags: , , . • RSS feed • Both comments and pings are currently closed

7 Responses to “Premium LUV.ME auction”

  1. 1
    Shaggy:
    January 18th, 2009 at 12:26 am

    LUV.me, LUV.me is also a famous song: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luv_Me,_Luv_Me

    Good name indeed.

  2. 2
    larysa:
    January 19th, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    Sold. Alas, only two bidder showed up. Else, it would be a better fight indeed.

  3. 3
    ixpressme:
    April 18th, 2009 at 1:47 am

    This domains made some buzz in the industry, a real.ly jingling one:

    http://783.me/2009/01/luvme-sold-for-6200-eur/
    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=8891151
    http://dmagg.com/?p=112
    http://www.dnforum.com/f551/porn-industry-thread-318978.html
    http://www.dnforum.com/f551/why-no-ll-me-domain-names-thread-312240.html
    http://www.dnjournal.com/ytd-sales-charts.htm
    http://www.dnxpert.com/2007/11/08/montenegro-me-tld-to-attract-interest-for-domain-hacks/
    http://www.dnxpert.com/2009/01/14/luvme-currently-on-auction-on-sedo/
    http://www.domainbits.com/mobi-auction/
    http://www.domainerincome.com/news/luvme-for-a-price/
    http://domainnamewire.com/2009/01/13/dubaiinfo-sells-for-35000/
    http://insuranceagency.me/index.php?/me-domain-for-sale/me-price.html
    http://marketplacepro.moniker.com/search/cat/11243945/len/1-6/keyword/s:L/
    http://plo.me/index.php?/me-domain-for-sale/me-price/Print.html
    http://www.sedo.com/brokerage/acquisition.php?tracked=&partnerid=44384&language=us&domain=LUV.ME
    http://www.thedomains.com/2008/09/25/moniker-traffic-auction-nets-almost-3-million/
    http://cgi.ebay.com/41-PREMIUM-ME-DOMAIN-NAMES-portfolio-generic-com-web_W0QQitemZ250406070705QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item250406070705&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1234|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1307|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50
    http://resource.targetdomain.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10706&Itemid=81

  4. 4
    Marko:
    May 22nd, 2009 at 9:39 pm

    Interesting jingles to consider: http://we.luv.it/ and http://we.love.it/ both taken of course.

  5. 5
    Surprised:
    November 8th, 2009 at 4:01 am

    I’m very surprised that date.me went for less than $100K, maybe the 200 other .cctlds lowered the otherwise great possibilities

  6. 6
    Marko:
    December 30th, 2009 at 10:42 pm

    Shame loves.me is still with the registry. Would be a good portal for jingles like tyson.loves.me

    So far, people go for http://tysonloves.me

  7. 7
    Marko:
    January 19th, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    Two years on, ad this sale still topes all the known ones with LUV: http://www.domaintools.com/domain-sales-history/?q=luv

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