Jingling .me domains are impossible to forget
A while ago we covered FB.ME and Porsche.Me. Now, Facebook.Me story is a mixture of two. Amjad Abbas of the United Arab Emirates registered facebook.me during land rush phase for some $5k+. He also managed to put few more trademarked names into his portfolio, among others oracle.me and trump.me.
One of the leading brand and trademark namecheck services United Domains puts .ME into Top 10 Generic Domains.
As pin-pointed by Jabby Panda, a leading Android online resource and community goes under “Android and Me” brand:
Traditional.ly, once in a while we cover domain names disputes. .ME remains relative.ly a clear zone (unlike the rest of the Internet), with only eight cases filed at WIPO in 2008 (also discussed in our earlier article featuring Porsche.Me) and further nine cases filed in 2009. With near.ly 300+ registered .me domain names, that makes […]
No one doubts the popularity of Twitter. The number of its satellites sites is just a good proof of this, accompanied by all high rankings of course, for instance, number 25 in Alexa global list. With massive self marketing of millions of its members, the site is featured everywhere: One of the satellites, foller.me is […]
Another “me”-branded product, this time for parents and babies: As advertised by the manufacturer: An extremely comfortable baby carrier for both baby and carer. Its unique harnessing system allows the parents to carry their babies safely and comfortably for longer periods of time. The original site is hosted on kari-me.com, while karime.com is just parked. […]
One of the best shoe designers Ecco has launched a massive advertising campaign: MY WORLD. MY STYLE. MY ECCO. Not only they have good designers but marketeers and online team too. The web pages and outdoor advertisement is stylish indeed, and flashy too. With ecco.com, eccousa.com, eccocanada.com, ecconet.co.uk, ecco-shoes.com.mt and so on, the brand is […]
Apple, having a very good name in marketing and branding, got it right when it named its new mobile platform “mobile me”. Ititial.ly, people talked about “mobile.me”. The rumours even had it that Apple has secured the Montenegrin domain for pretty high sum. However, mobile.me is still not schedule for the premium auction and Apple […]
GENEVA (Reuters) – Companies and celebrities ranging from Arsenal football club to actress Scarlett Johansson filed a record number of “cybersquatting” cases in 2008 to stop others from profiting from their famous names, brands and events, a United Nations agency said on Sunday. Web sites in dispute in 2008 included references to Madrid’s 2016 Olympics […]
This will be sure.ly an interesting case. Firm 23andMe.com founded by Anne Wojcicki (the wife of Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google) and Linda Avey offers people services of analysing and comparing their genomes (made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, hence the name). Google is an investor in this venture, although Mr Brin has […]
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