.ME of course

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

On.FB.Me/domain {click on the image to zoom in}

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

Ever wanted to say it with your heart rather than words. It appears you can do it with your domain two. Yes it works:

• ❤.com

If you are into cards, you may wish to  try the clubs too:

• ♣.com

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Posted on September 19th, 2010 • Category: .IDNs • Comments (6)

For the last few years the industry is constantly buzzing about new TLDs. However, nobody really thought about new schemes. And yet, they are pretty real. All depends on your client browser of course.

Don't be surprised, if in ten years we will be using some of these:

• data://
• fax://
• file://
• geo://
• music://
• radio://
• service://
• tel://
• tv://
• xxx://

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Posted on September 19th, 2010 • Category: .newTLDs • Comments (3)

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 jingling domain names found in Alexa one million list:

33273 "es"
13241 "rs"
8289 "us"
7746 "in"
7499 "ch"
7075 "me"
6935 "se"
6792 "net"
6539 "de"
5369 "be" (including 2313 instances of "tube")
5329 "it"
4696 "at"
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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 "me"-related. This is right, out of 100 potential brands, one of them will use "me" jingling feature.

Surprise came to see that Apple's me.com took only the seventh spot with few Asian rivals running around.

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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)

PayBox.Me is starting unparalleled campaign: earn money with easy referals.
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Posted on September 14th, 2010 • Category: Examples, Marketing, News • Comments Off on PayBox.Me

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

CLICK ME

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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.

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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.

Alex @ about.me

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 theme allows you to consolidate everything you have on the web, about.me and flavours.me included. On top of this, Name.ly offers dozens of jingly names with other themes suitable for personal and professional use.

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