.ME of course

So what if you had a start up with an awkward name? Yes, you pick up a jingly name and go for it. This is exactly what Naymz.com did. They have migrated from to

Posted on April 29th, 2011 • Category: .COM, .ME, Examples • Comments (2)

This morning coffee braincrunch led to the following conclusion: .ME sites are as good as .COM. Interested in numbers? There we go. There are currently about 450k .me domain names. Google has already found about 150,000,000 results on site:me. This is 333 pages for every domain name.

Posted on April 18th, 2011 • Category: .COM, .ME, Analysis, Discussions • Comments (2)

Another big name has joined .me suit. It is Internet Movie Database, IMDB, this time that is using imdb.me for the short namely links. E.g. http://www.imdb.me/jenni-goodman

Posted on February 17th, 2011 • Category: .COM, .ME, Examples • Comments (2)

Russia’s biggest social network ВКонтакте and one of the world’s top sites is now using vk.me domain for it’s short links. Prior to this, ВКонтакте has also purchased vk.com and yet decided to pursue with further, better and shorter options. Let us remind our readers that earlier in 2010 Facebook decided to use fb.me and […]

Posted on December 21st, 2010 • Category: .COM, .ME, .RU, Branding, Examples, News • Comments (2)

After few hours spent on discussing the previous post, an interesting summary was born. Below is the list of TLDs as they were searched in domain names of other TLDs stress-testing their suitability to brandability and some extend to domain hacking. Domain name like “home.co.ke” was counted as the one ending with “me”. Numbers represent […]

Posted on September 15th, 2010 • Category: .ASIA, .AT, .AU, .BIZ, .CA, .CH, .CN, .CO, .COM, .CZ, .DE, .DK, .ES, .EU, .FR, .IN, .INFO, .IT, .JP, .LY, .ME, .MOBI, .NAME, .NET, .NL, .ORG, .PL, .RS, .RU, .SE, .TEL, .TRAVEL, .TV, .UA, .US • Comments (5)

After some Excel crunching staff at Brands-and-Jingles has found 7075 domain names in the Alexa top one million that ended with “me” but were not “.me” sites. When we added another 1000+ of the latter, which made it into the top list as well, we realised that nearly one percent of all global sites are […]

Posted on September 15th, 2010 • Category: .ASIA, .AT, .AU, .BIZ, .CA, .CH, .CN, .CO, .COM, .CZ, .DE, .DK, .ES, .EU, .FR, .GS, .IN, .INFO, .IT, .JP, .LY, .ME, .MOBI, .NAME, .NET, .NL, .ORG, .PL, .RS, .RU, .SE, .TEL, .TRAVEL, .TV, .UA, .US, .YU, Analysis • Comments (10)

There have been many speculations of what to expect from .CO in the coming years. Here is an interesting study by Brands-and-Jingles (FB, Twitter). We looked on it a bit from a different angle while analysing top .me sites on Alexa. To start with, there are currently 249 .co sites in the Alexa top million […]

Posted on September 7th, 2010 • Category: .CO, .COM • Comments (8)

GoDaddy, the world’s most popular registrar is now using go.me as its URL shortener. The change is noticed on their Twitter, Facebook account, etcetera.

Posted on August 26th, 2010 • Category: .CO, .COM, .ME, Branding, Marketing, News • Comments (1)

Goozzy decided that six letter domain name is not enough, so they registered gzzy.me to make the whole domain name length three letters shorter.

Posted on August 24th, 2010 • Category: .COM, .ME, Examples • Comments Off on GZZY.me