Jingling .me domains are impossible to forget
During the routine check on bedo.com, which was recent.ly sold at Search Engine for Domain Offers (a.k.a. SEDO), it was noticed that it is still down, already for a while, waiting for its big day. Sometimes, big investments end up in nowhere.
Never mind that, recent.ly SEDO also sold two “me”-tagged domains:
aroundme.com (US$ 4,600)
playme.ca (US$ 700)
In the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 growth of [...]
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 [...]
As noted on Wikipedia:
In November 2008 Libyan Spider, an official .ly registrar, has halved the registration fee down to $75 a year in hopes to boost its sale considering the great success of .me roll-out in Montenegro in the summer of 2008.
For those who are interested:
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Libyan Spider <sales@libyanspider.com>
Date: 2008/11/5
Subject: 50% off [...]
There are many hot discussions going on related to .me vs .mobi etc. Referring to one of them on Rick Schwartz’s blog:
Guys who thought .mobi was a good idea should have been investing in .me. Something.mobi is not a jingle. Verb.me is. Noun4.me is.
Try to forget these ones: free4.me, hotels4.me, jobs4.me, mobiles4.me, phones4.me, pizza4.me or [...]
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