Jingling .me domains are impossible to forget
In their recent paper, Is it Really About Me? Message Content in Social Awareness Streams, Mor Naaman et al of Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information, examined the characteristics of social activity and patterns of communication on Twitter, a prominent example of the emerging class of communication systems, which they called “social awareness streams.” […]
During the routine check on bedo.com, which was recent.ly sold at Search Engine for Domain Offers (a.k.a. SEDO), it was noticed that it is still down, already for a while, waiting for its big day. Sometimes, big investments end up in nowhere. Never mind that, recent.ly SEDO also sold two “me”-tagged domains: aroundme.com (US$ 4,600) […]
.ME made it to the list of the top 10 most popular ccTLDs (country-code top level domains) sold by SEDO (Search Engine for Domain Offers). For the top nine ccTLDs the spread looks as follows: .de (60%), .co.uk (13%), .eu (9%), .es (4%), .nl (3%), .at (3%), .tv (3%), .me (3%), .fr (2%) Thus, in […]
Most of us are driving machines with two big engines: Google and Microsoft. And yet, these motors constant.ly fight with each other. One can only wonder how the cars still remain on the road. Another week and yet another fight: After months of speculation and then a failed merger, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced an agreement […]
A bit in advance, just not to miss the day, let us congratulate .me with another important milestone and wish the one year old baby many happy returns. To celebrate one year of official live launch of .me domains, Brands-and-Jingles issued a white paper on how “me”-branded names are used in marketing. The document summarises […]
Every half a year Brands-and-Jingles shares the data they gather since the inception of .ME on number of .me web pages indexed by Google. In less than a year .me became more popular than .aero, .asia, .coop, .jobs, .int, .mil, .museum, .name, .pro, .tel, .travel and other 200 country code top-level domains. Since the beginning […]
This is month .me is all about breaking the records and beating the peers. Right after it had 250,000th .me domain registered on 15th of May, in less than a year of its existence, .me took over .travel, by both, the number of registered domains and number of pages indexed by Google. While .me went […]
Another jingling .me site: “read it for (dot) me” is promising to help business people to deliver the best of the books for their digestion: A billion brilliant business books (or so) pave the road to the cover of Fortune. But who has time to read and remember them all? ReadItFor.Me does it for you. […]
In our previous article, .ME in various languages, research provided by Brands-and-Jingles discovered that only 10% of content within .me zone was in Serbian. With nearly half of pages written in English, no one doubted the international scope of this top level domain. Let us now have a look at it from the different angle: […]
Considering popularity of short LLL.me names, we continue analysis started in the previous article. It looks like practical.ly 100% of NNN.me (three numbers) a gone. So if you are looking for some, get ready to pay pretty sweet sums. In the LLL.me area (three letters, letters only), 60% are already taken, leaving some good abbreviations […]
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