Over 30,000 Pre-Registration Applications Received for .ME Domains
An astounding 30,000 applications were received to date for registering .ME domains!
It has been announced that the next round of registration, operating on a first come, first served basis, beginning on July 17, during which all areas would be assigned to the first bidders who meet the eligibility requirements.
The Sunrise Period began in May, when only trademark owners could have requested applications. .ME domain names that receive more than one application will be awarded through an auction. .ME domains should be used as a personalized Web address and catchy as a marketing tool for businesses throughout the world. .ME Landrush (pre-registration) began in early June, and the Open registration is scheduled on a first come, first-served basis in mid-July. Two years minimum is required at all. ME domain names registered during the first and Land Open a registration period.
The remaining .ME registration schedule is as follows:
June 26 to July 15: Quiet Period. Meanwhile, the registry is closed to registrars. The names for which there was only one request during the period Land is allocated. Land auctions begin for the names that have received multiple applications.
July 17: Open registration. Domain names are registered on a first come, first served basis.
Register Your .ME Domain at GoDaddy on July 17th!
Popularity: 54% [?]
July 11th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
The .me domain is really a good idea…
Now we are able to make really some games with words- some people will really have a few ideas for that!
July 11th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Too bad godaddy has been caught bidding against it’s own customers. I think I’ll pass on bidding for that reason.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Any idea about what kind of auction prices for some of the premium .me names? Any one stepped up for .me? Any good ideas when these are open for public on 17th? I assume date.me is already taken.. if not makes a great name..
July 15th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
30.000???
Wow, it seems there will be really a lot of domains coming…
What for names will they take?
Do you have some ideas?
July 17th, 2008 at 9:37 am
[…] 30,000 .ME domains have been pre-registered and several thousand more have been reserved (full list) by doMEn to be auctioned off at a later […]
July 18th, 2008 at 12:51 am
Great all!
July 20th, 2008 at 9:34 am
.ME Domain will be very popular, especially in blogs & sites about person. Hope, that prices will be good.
July 20th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I hope too that the prices will be good.
If I would be able to, I would take one for my blog.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:20 am
how much will be cost this domains?
July 27th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I have just had a difficult experience with a comapany calle the Europe Registry. I found an ‘available’ .me domain and went through the process of reserving it for pre registration - which was accepted. It showed on my account details as ‘in progress’ then suddenly nothing. No response to ’support’ emails over a period of days. Then the ‘in progress’ vanished from my account page - only after further days when I telephoned custome service am I told the name is not available without explanation and when I check it again yesterday on their system it is ‘not available reserved.’ The name was arts.me - I will be looking into this further but I would welcome any comments or advice. As it happens I have since registered what I think is a better .me name with a different company but in view of my experience would give this as a warning - the Euurope registry was also asking nearly five times the priced for a .me registration!!!!
July 28th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
@Mike, Jana, Visa, & all who are price inquiring:
GoDaddy is selling the .me domains for $19.99/year, but apparently a) all of the really good real estate is gone, and b) GoDaddy has apparently been caught bidding up prices against its customers in the auctions. So I’d suggest avoiding that whole deal unless you can find another source from which to register your domain.
Yes, aweso.me, ho.me, gno.me, and all the other good ones are all gone.
August 4th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Dot.me will make great slogans that also double as domain names eg, insure.me, talented.me, eyeing.me and so on. To-date probably close to 100,000 domains have been registered. For a list of interesting intrinsic domain names check the list at http://www.dotmewebsites.com
August 26th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
These Pre-Registrations are really interesting.
I registrated one too-and I will be very happy when my Website will start.
It will take some more time, but it will be a new generation with .me Sites.