.ME of course

Three letter domains (also known as LLL) are hot and wide.ly discussed. Why is it so? LLL will always survive in any market with more than 10 million users. If you talk about combinatorics, there are only 17,576 LLLs (47,952 – if you add digits and “-“). Thus, you need, say, 200 names to control […]

Posted on April 12th, 2009 • Tags: LLL • Category: .ME, Analysis • Comments (49)

Sedo has just closed numerous Premium.Verb.Me auctions, this blog featured a month ago, raising in total $152,290 on 29 domain names (average price $5,251). As usual, the last day was quite vivid with most of the prices doubled and best bids revealed just in the last few minutes. Results are as follows: rock.me – $12,000 […]

Posted on April 2nd, 2009 • Tags: auctions, premium • Category: .ME, Analysis, Discussions, Examples, Registry (.ME) • Comments (1)

A lot has been said about .ME domains, but why is it Montenegrin country-code Top Level Domain (ccTLD)? Wouldn’t it be more logical to assign .CG to the country, as it’s original name is Crna Gora (Black Mountain)? A bit of history: former Yugoslavia used .YU domain, which is now being phased out. Within Yugoslavia, […]

Posted on March 24th, 2009 • Category: .ME, .RS, .YU, Analysis, Discussions, Registry (.ME) • Comments (5)

Among those ccTLD and gTLD launched after 1999, .ME has the highest Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) with unbeatable 210,138% when measuring pages indexed by Google: TLD (Country) Launched CAGR .ME (Montenegro) 2007 210,138% .RS (Serbia) 2006 27,878% .ASIA 2006 12,264% .EU (European Union) 2005 10,495% .CAT 2005 8,284% .MOBI 2005 7,720% .AX (Aland Islands) […]

Posted on March 22nd, 2009 • Category: .ME, Analysis • Comments (2)

Podgorica, Montenegro – Feb. 10, 2009 – Domain.me – The Internet’s most popular new domain name extension, .ME, now includes a portfolio of two-hundred thousand names registered worldwide. New TLD Maintains Momentum & Hits Major Milestone with Help Worldwide This makes .ME the fastest growing new ccTLD launch on record! OpenDoor.ME, registered in Fukuoka, Japan, […]

Posted on February 10th, 2009 • Tags: domain.me • Category: .ME, Analysis, Registry (.ME) • Comments Off on Global Sensation – .ME Hits 200,000 Registered Domains

Important things first: this article does not talk in search engine optimisation language, but branding. Let us have a look on .Me from marketing prospective. Dutch.Me makes sense only in verb+me combination, e.g., Ontdek.Me (Discover.Me) and Reserveer.Me (Book.Me). Some of English Noun.Me are good, Coral.Me, Continent.Me, Ski.Me, Snow.Me, Sun.Me, … keep them. They will pop […]

Posted on February 8th, 2009 • Category: .ME, Analysis, Discussions, Examples, Marketing • Comments (15)

If your first guess was that .me sites will be popular among English speakers, most probably you were right. As more than 90% of .me domains were sold to people outside Montenegro, it makes sense that mere 10% of pages are in Serbian plus some 2% in Croatian and 2% in Slovenian, languages spoken in […]

Posted on January 28th, 2009 • Tags: Chinese, Croatian, English, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, languages, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian • Category: .ME, Analysis • Comments (3)

Now, that the .me rush is cooling down, at least with all top names taken, we have analysed 3269 top English words including 1000 commonly used verbs. At the beginning, our analysts filtered out 30 one-letter and 54 two-letter words. This formed a basis set of 3185 common English words available for domainers, starting from […]

Posted on January 19th, 2009 • Tags: domainer, Domainers, go live, investor, investors, land rush, top • Category: .LY, .ME, Analysis, Discussions, Examples • Comments (10)