.ME of course

As pin-pointed by Jabby Panda, a leading Android online resource and community goes under “Android and Me” brand:

Posted on February 1st, 2010 • Category: .COM, .ME, Examples, Legal • Leave a comment

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 [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2010 • Tags: Apple, WIPO • Category: .ME, Legal • Comments (3)

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 striving [...]

Posted on July 21st, 2009 • Tags: twitter • Category: .COM, .ME, Legal, Marketing • Comments (22)

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. By the way, among the [...]

Posted on May 7th, 2009 • Tags: Kari • Category: .COM, .ME, Branding, Examples, Legal • Leave a comment

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 a bit overstretch over the Internet. [...]

Posted on April 8th, 2009 • Tags: Ecco • Category: .COM, .ME, .NET, Branding, Examples, Legal, Marketing • Leave a comment

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 had [...]

Posted on March 30th, 2009 • Tags: Apple, mobile • Category: .COM, .ME, .MOBI, Branding, Examples, Legal, Marketing • Comments (2)

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 bid, [...]

Posted on March 15th, 2009 • Tags: WIPO • Category: Legal • Comments (2)

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 rescued himself [...]

Posted on January 6th, 2009 • Tags: 23andMe, Google, trademark • Category: .COM, .ME, .MOBI, Branding, Examples, Legal • Comments (5)

If Nokia would believe in .mobi, what would they rather promote ovi.com or ovi.mobi? It is all about ovi.com in the press, however ovi.mobi is the one you will need for your mobile. The former is a PC versions and the latter is the mobile.
ovi.me was registered by Nokia as well, although, at the moment the company [...]

Posted on December 4th, 2008 • Tags: Nokia, trademark • Category: .COM, .ME, .MOBI, Legal • Comments (1)