.ME of course

Gamblers love “ME” signs, do they not? Have a look:

Posted on July 13th, 2010 • Category: .COM, Branding, Discussions • Comments Off on PriME Scratch Cards

Long standing crises of .com… With nearly 100 million .com domain names registered, there are few good names left untouched, forcing marketeers to spend months to look for that special name for their next best campaign. An extreme example to use would be mattandkimliveathilfigerdenim.com:

Posted on July 13th, 2010 • Category: .COM, Discussions • Comments (2)

Does it seem odd: an extra dot right after the domain name? Not at all! This is how it was meant to be in the first place. URLs like http://google.com./ work just fine. So why do people skip that last dot? Good question. Most probably, because it does not add any extra value and we […]

Posted on March 1st, 2010 • Tags: Amazon • Category: Analysis, Branding, Discussions, Examples • Comments (2)

Certain.ly a feature one misses on Bing, Google offers suggestions for what people are looking for. In the case of “me” it is:

Posted on February 15th, 2010 • Category: .ME, Analysis, Discussions, Examples • Comments (2)

Ever asked the question what’s popular on .me? What people are bidding on? What domains are more attractive than the others? Sedo, being a market leader, with its public listings, is a good measure of domain and keyword popularity. It the end of the day, .me are among top 10 top-level domains at Search Engine […]

Posted on January 24th, 2010 • Tags: SEDO • Category: .ME, Analysis, Discussions, Domainers, Examples • Comments (10)

One of the greatest article promoting .me so far, by BBC of course: Montenegro’s .me domain name gain.

Posted on January 9th, 2010 • Tags: BBC • Category: .ME, Analysis, Discussions, Examples, Marketing, News, Registry (.ME), UK • Comments Off on BBC: Montenegro’s .me domain name gain

The rumour has it that ServiceOnline company the owner and the registry of pp.ua (which they position to stay for “people” or “private person”) is about to launch another free service based on me.ua. ME.UA will probably mimic PP.UA and will just bring a splash of new domains on the Ukrainian market. ServiceOnline is already […]

Posted on October 28th, 2009 • Tags: Ukraine • Category: .UA, Analysis, Discussions, News, UK • Comments (1)

Although they do not allow registration of .me names shorter than three letters, with the help of GoDaddy, Matthew Mullenweg of WordPress managed to strike a deal with the registry and on 24 July 2009 he got his hands on WP.me. WordPress.me was registered by the same famous Ma.tt already back in 2008 during the […]

Posted on August 16th, 2009 • Tags: WordPress • Category: .COM, .ME, Discussions, Examples, News • Comments (11)

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 […]

Posted on August 6th, 2009 • Tags: Google, Microsoft • Category: .COM, .ME, Analysis, Discussions, News • Comments (11)