Jingling .me domains are impossible to forget
With 2 million web pages indexed by Google, .me.uk, a British second level country code domain, only represents 0.3% of nearly 700 million .uk pages. Not a great success at all. Considering 500+ million of .co.uk pages (British equivalent of .com), 109 million of gov.uk (government), 30 million of .org.uk, 25 million of ac.uk (British […]
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 […]
Bob Parsons, the maverick pioneer in the domain industry and the founder of GoDaddy, just set up his blog to BobParsons.Me. In his video blog, he touts .me as one of the top domain stories of 2008. GoDaddy has nearly 30% share of the worlds domain market and it consistently wins awards for its high-level […]
Brands-and-Jingles has shared the data they gathered in 2008 since the inception of .ME on number of web pages indexed by Google. Among all top level domains, in 2008, .ME sites have enjoyed the fastest growth with more than 50% a month: .ME tops other industry risers and leaders, beating .ASIA and .MOBI with the […]
Toyota has launched a new advertising campaign for its new iQ model. In the UK, it is accompanied by the jingle “i_am_unique”. “i_am_unique” is catchy, no doubts. However, they should have turned to “unique.me”. The same message, stylish.ly, and with a web teaser too.
Who.is of Domain.Me, the official .ME registry, says: Domain info wikipedia.me is available according to WHOIS. If you are interested in purchasing this domain kindly choose your registrar from registrar list However, it is not. GoDaddy lists it as taken: WIKIPEDIA.ME is already taken. “wikipedia.me” not found in the Registry Whois. WHOIS Underlying Registry Data: […]
insure.me The legend of prime dot me land rush auctions, insure.me, won by Timothy Warbington from Arizona after nearly a month of bidding (278 bids were placed in July-August) and lump sum payment of $68,104.98 cash, is final.ly online, as a teaser, promising to launch a service with free access to health, life, auto and […]
The Economist : Business : Managing the Facebookers : The balance of power between old-school managers and young talent is changing—a bit Their defenders say they are motivated, versatile workers who are just what companies need in these difficult times. To others, however, the members of “Generation Y”—those born in the 1980s and 1990s, otherwise […]
British advertisers don’t stop providing us with the best “me” slogans. This time it is an outdoor posters for Film Office: Know Your Lines: mysterious and romantic drama about war Film: Atonement, 2007 Director: Joe Wright Novel: Ian McEwan Screenplay: Christopher Hampton Released: 7th of September 2007 (UK) IMDB: 7.9 In fact, this is another […]
Surprise, surprise, late.ly was registered by Matt Mullenweg, a WordPress founder. Matt loves domains hacks and he probab.ly already has something in mind of it. In any case, it is a good token for .ly’s. In last two months, the Libyan registry was busy with cashing in, people final.ly started to buy .ly’s. So during […]
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