.ME of course

This week is bringing us another .ME record: Buy.Me was just sold via Sedo for 115,000.00 EUR. The domain was initially acquired from the registry via a TRAFFIC auction back in 2008 for 17,500.00 USD.

Posted on September 28th, 2012 • Category: .ME, .RU, Domainers, Examples, Pricing • Comments (6)

Russia’s biggest social network ВКонтакте and one of the world’s top sites is now using vk.me domain for it’s short links. Prior to this, ВКонтакте has also purchased vk.com and yet decided to pursue with further, better and shorter options. Let us remind our readers that earlier in 2010 Facebook decided to use fb.me and […]

Posted on December 21st, 2010 • Category: .COM, .ME, .RU, Branding, Examples, News • Comments (2)

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)