.ME of course

One of the world’s best papers, regularly features “me”-tagged pictures and slogans [1, 2]. Below goes the last month selection:

Posted on February 20th, 2010 • Tags: The Economist • Category: .ME, Examples, UK • Comments (2)

Many will call these url’s ugly hacks, but they are pretty useful designers’ resources:

Favetime -> http://fav.eti.me/
Styletime -> http://styl.eti.me/
Votetime -> http://vot.eti.me/

All based on eti.me.

Posted on February 19th, 2010 • Category: .ME, Domainers, Examples, UK • Comments (5)

One of the greatest article promoting .me so far, by BBC of course: Montenegro’s .me domain name gain.

Posted on January 9th, 2010 • Tags: BBC • Category: .ME, Analysis, Discussions, Examples, Marketing, News, Registry (.ME), UK • Leave a comment

Found in the recent article in The Economist:

Posted on October 29th, 2009 • Tags: The Economist • Category: .ME, UK • Comments (1)

The rumour has it that ServiceOnline company the owner and the registry of pp.ua (which they position to stay for “people” or “private person”) is about to launch another free service based on me.ua. ME.UA will probably mimic PP.UA and will just bring a splash of new domains on the Ukrainian market.
ServiceOnline is already selling [...]

Posted on October 28th, 2009 • Tags: Ukraine • Category: .UA, Analysis, Discussions, News, UK • Leave a comment

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 [...]

Posted on September 4th, 2009 • Tags: sales, SEDO • Category: .CA, .CH, .CN, .COM, .INFO, .MOBI, .NET, .ORG, .TV, .US, Analysis, Examples, UK • Comments (1)

.ME made it to the list of the top 10 most popular ccTLDs (country-code top level domains) sold by SEDO (Search Engine for Domain Offers). For the top nine ccTLDs the spread looks as follows:
.de (60%), .co.uk (13%), .eu (9%), .es (4%), .nl (3%), .at (3%), .tv (3%), .me (3%), .fr (2%)
Thus, in fact, .me [...]

Posted on August 10th, 2009 • Tags: SEDO • Category: .AT, .DE, .ES, .EU, .FR, .ME, .NL, .TV, Analysis, Examples, News, UK • Comments (4)

Last week .me registry folks released a funny and trendy commercial where they have featured improved image of MEzillla. In addition to it, they have also posted photos of MEzilla on their Facebook fan page. The shots were taken while trotting the globe and promoting new “me” concept (click on the images to zoom in):
Special [...]

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 • Tags: registry • Category: .ME, Examples, Marketing, Registry (.ME), UK • Leave a comment

As was posted earlier, “try me” is used all over Britain, Sainsbury’s, Boots, you name them. In fact, the whole world.
As found in MotherCare, a TinyLove product screaming to try it:

Yes, dot.com address is visible, but “me” slogan is the trigger.
Domain wise, nothing has changed until now, “try.me” is still held by the registry, waiting for [...]

Posted on July 5th, 2009 • Category: .COM, .ME, Examples, Marketing, UK • Leave a comment