Jingling .me domains are impossible to forget
Caught in London Southwark, not far from Tower Bridge, a cab advertising Chaumet, Bond Street and Harrods: "Catch me ... if you love me".
Catch.me seems to be all over the place. Looks like an old good Hollywood movie is making it back. .ME registry is featuring ‘Catch .Me If You Can’ This June on their 15 premium.me.
One cannot wait for Catch.Me to become available any time soon.
Still a bit of a mystery, Brands-and-Jingles tries to crack, but Germans love .ME. Maybe it can be explain by the fact that there is very little difference between .de and .me. Let's hope that German.Me will provide the answer soon.
Anyhow, Eyelight Dot Me, a project by Simon Schießl and Felix Hardmood Beck, uses a me-branded slogan to promote a real lighting product:
Special thanks goes to Mark Kolb for sharing. Cheers!
The Economist's KAL's cartoon is featuring Mr Obama who is trying to get through a dangerous crowd with special interests shouting "We welcome your proposals":
If you at the stage that you cannot leave without jingling .me sites, you may wish to switch to google.me, which sound catchy indeed.
In case, you don't like the white background or are into short URLs (as featured by Philadelphia Business Journal), then ggl.me is just for you.
They even say that the latter is better for the environment, as black screens consume less energy, be it on conventional CRTs though.
Found today on looklet site, quite few .ME branded styles by foxyqueen:
Of course, all .me names are either taken or reserved. Shame none of them is developed yet, - they are all great stylish names indeed.
An interesting book suggested by Internet Branding dot Me (Telling your story to the world with your website), Me 2.0:
It is indeed high.ly rated by the Amazon's clients. Being concise, it covers pretty much of everything, fundamental theory and then detailed recipes of how to build up your brand.
As one can guess, some .me names, say pizza4.me, can open new hotizons and yet keep your business away from all the existing brands and trademarks. We will sure.ly see more of those coming in the next few years.
CnaSoft, a provider of desktop application, has decided to rebrand its cloud product into cnap.me.
Funny, enough, if you place the mouse over the cnap.me logo, it turns into download.me, a site bought just two month ago at the premium auction and still parked at Sedo, impossible to buy though:
Good .me names are getting scarce, no doubt.
Photo Me, an international provider of mobile photo booths, decided to go with the theme: "Instantly Yours".
Though, currently hosted on photo-me.com and photo-me.co.uk, it certain.ly misses photome.com and photome.co.uk. Of course, photo.me would be the best, but it is not yet released by the registry. Time to think and acquire some serious brand, maybe?
Although, "Photo-Me" is visible in many crowded places, railway, tube, bus stations, it is not associated with on-line services and sure.ly misses the potential.
Why not, to go with catchy ads like instant.ly/yours and get thousands of potential clients, who are all shopping on-line most of the time anyway?
This is month .me is all about breaking the records and beating the peers. Right after it had 250,000th .me domain registered on 15th of May, in less than a year of its existence, .me took over .travel, by both, the number of registered domains and number of pages indexed by Google.
While .me went live just on 17th of June 2008, .travel is already live for longer than three years (.travel registrations opened in earlier 2006). Although both names are catchy, the length of the latter, six characters, versus two to four characters for a typical top-level-domain (TLD) must be seen as a clear disadvantage.
Let's mark 7,500,000+ .me pages indexed by Google as on 31st of May 2009 as another significant milestone and see whether .travel will be ever able to catch up with less than 6,900,000 pages it managed to build over the last three years and a bit.
In the past, .me already got above .asia, .me.uk, .pro, .museum, .jobs, and remains unchallenged by the new rival .tel.
It is too earlier to say when, but the next opponents will certain.ly be .int, .name, .mobi, .cat, .biz, .tv, and hopeful.ly one day .info.
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