.ME of course

A quite successful .me start-up is unfortunately closing its door, not because of the lack of popularity, but because of the funding issues. Any VCs out their to take it over?

Posted on October 19th, 2010 • Category: .ME, News • Comments Off on Society.Me

Pirate.Me is currently held by the German kundendienste.net, so pirates seek for other harbours.

Posted on October 14th, 2010 • Category: .ME • Comments (2)

Formspring.me started using 4ms.me registered earlier in May this year as its internal short URL.

Posted on October 14th, 2010 • Tags: FormSpring.Me • Category: .ME, Analysis, Branding, Discussions, Examples • Comments (4)

It appears that on.fb.me, a new Facebook shortener is run by bit.ly, here is a screenshot proof of that.

Posted on October 6th, 2010 • Tags: Facebook • Category: .ME • Comments Off on On.FB.Me is run by bit.ly?

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)

Advertiser are now using Me-tagged brands and jingles on Facebook too:

Posted on September 11th, 2010 • Category: .ME, Advertising • Comments Off on Click Me ads on Facebook

If there would be a price for the worst .ME domain name – WEALTHFORHEALTHEDUCATIONFORTHEHEALTHCAREPROFESSIONAL.ME would be it.

Posted on September 10th, 2010 • Category: .ME, Discussions • Comments (2)

A new project about.me, still in development, is promising indeed for its design. It offers the same product as flavors.me or name.ly. Have a look: certainly about.me/alex sounds better then flavours.me/alex, though not that sexy as thatis.me/alex. The last one that reads as a gramatically correct sentense,  is provided by Name.ly, which with its Name.ly/Frames […]

Posted on September 9th, 2010 • Category: .ME, Discussions, News • Comments (2)