.ME Domains Sell For Over 2 Million Dollars

[moneydomains]

News out September 2008

Me domains sells at auction for over 2 Million dollars

The Land-Rush me domain auction has just ended and what an amazing internet auction!

The auction sold for over $2 Million Dot .Me domains! The even more amazing part, is that only few peaple where allowed to bid on the current dot Me land-rush domain auction.

The major dot .me bidding is expected to happen later in September, when the premium Dot Me domain names are scheduled to come up for auction. Eveybody will be able to bid on the premium auctions It is only a matter of time before we will see a dot .me domain that score six figure bids "very likely" in the premium .me domain auction.

Everybody semes getting on the Dot Me wagon and for very good reasons. Due to Dot .Me universal appeal and has superb quality to be very easily remembered and branded: Like Date.Me, Mobile.me, Kiss.me, Youand.me, LasVegas.Me, Meet.Me, Loan.Me, Insure.Me, Rock.Me, Funk.me, Watch.Me and 1000's of other great dot .Me domain names.

With these amazing auction domain results, it might be a good time to buy some .Me domains before all the good ones get sold out. It looks like some of the dot me domains could end up as future gold mines! I sure would like get my hands in Casino dot Me or Poker dot Me.
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[dominator]

any website using .me?

 

[moneydomains]

Yes i am seeing more and more website with dot.me showing up on the net

 

[whitebark]

Yes i am seeing more and more website with dot.me showing up on the net

Any REAL websites. Not made for adsense, affiliate link loaded, BANS etc etc creations by domainers.

And why is it the bulk of people pushing .me all have registration dates on the forums of 2008?

Don't answer - I already know...

 

[moneydomains]

Yes i am seeing more and more real website on the net.
But you have to keep in mind, that .me domains are ONLY 2 month old and the premium dot .Me domains are fist up for auction sale later this september, so its fist when the premium :me are sold, we really will start see the very big .ME sites show on the net.
Sales of me domains at godaddy and other register are going fantastic.

 

[dominator]

let. me/expire/in-one-or-two-years.htm

 

[missmyrah]

exoticcars.me

 

[moneydomains]

I think we will see some of the 2000 premium .me domains on next auction go for 6 figures - .Me means the same in Spanish and Italien as in English!
Plus .Me has no registration rules everybody can registrate them.
If you look at .US , Ca, .EU they all have registration rules and will therefor never be a international good domain name.

Plus .Me has had world record registration sales.
and how many 2 letter domain extensions are out there and same time means somethink like .Me do??:
Date.Me, Insure.me, Youand.Me and Kiss.Me, visit.Me, Lookat.me, rate.me and so on.

Plus .Me VERY easy to remember and brand.
Just think if you had Date.Me how easy it is to remember.

Will be interesting to watch the premium auction.
.Me will just get more and more popular as more and more peaple get to know them.

 

[DomainsInc]

Same thing happened with .mobi and look where its at now. At least mobi has an actual use/different approach whereas .me is just another vanity extention.

 

[moneydomains]

Same thing happened with .mobi and look where its at now. At least mobi has an actual use/different approach whereas .me is just another vanity extention.

There is a BIG BIG difference
How good do insure.mobi sound? compare to Insure.Me,
Or date.mobi compare to Date.Me, or Youand.Me compare to Youand.mobi, or kiss.me compare to kiss.mobi.

.Me so much better for websites and branding

So many good and easy to remember .me domains that same time means something

again .Me is one of the only 2 letter domain extensions thats means something and can be used in so many ways with other words.

Plus Me means the same in Spanish and Italien as in English!
Thats 100's milllions more peaple that can use .Me fo websites

 

[DomainsInc]

There is a BIG BIG difference
How good do insure.mobi sound? compare to Insure.Me,
Or date.mobi compare to Date.Me, or Youand.Me compare to Youand.mobi, or kiss.me compare to kiss.mobi.

.Me so much better for websites and branding

So many good and easy to remember .me domains that same time means something

again .Me is one of the only 2 letter domain extensions thats means something and can be used in so many ways with other words.

Plus Me means the same in Spanish and Italien as in English!
Thats 100's milllions more peaple that can use .Me fo websites

Like I said, its a vanity tld. Also, a pet peeve of mine is country code tlds being misused, much like .tv.

 

[Andrew Shaw]

The survival of an extension is not based on what you or I think will happen. There will be those who think it will succeed, and those that think it will flop. It will all depend on the marketing done for the extension, but mainly the number of developed functional sites that are created.

Wither is .me, .mobi, or .asia, any extension can be of interest if development ideas are put into action. It doesnt take something great, or perfect to be picked up by the general public... All that needs to happen is for them to become aware of it.

Same goes for any extension. If you are a reseller, and you hoard names and dont do anything with them, your only hurting your own cause. Development of a certain extension will have a lot of impact on its value in the future.

I am not a .me supporter, and have not purchased any. I personally believe that the more extensions that are created, the harder it will be for a large portion of that specific extension to have developed functional sites.

 

[Irish31]

Like I said, its a vanity tld. Also, a pet peeve of mine is country code tlds being misused, much like .tv.

Indeed. If you have been around here long enough, you know how these things go.


Enjoy!

 

[dominator]

.me will be just sold from resellers to resellers

nobody else needs it

 

[moneydomains]

So many good and easy to remember .me domains that in same time means something
again .Me is one of the only 2 letter domain extensions thats means something and can be used in so many ways with other words.
It will be a huge succes but will take litle time they just started 2 months ago selling .Me - and the Premium .Me are not even sold yet.
I have got quite a few offers already on some of mine .Me domains and the more peaple that gets to know .Me the higher valued they will get.
You dont need to be very smart to know how good a name like Loan.Me or Insure.me or Date.Me is for branding - It's simply some of the best!

 

[dominator]

do you know any .it sites in english?

 

[moneydomains]

Nope there was no interest for .it from Englsih speaking countries.

.Me however buyers was OVER 80% from English speaking countries:
From google news:
Presently .Me domains are gaining momentum as the hottest new destination for Web addresses that have hit the market. Due to their universal appeal and quality to be easily remembered they have become essential to brand yourself or a company in the online market. Furthermore, some “premium” names such as. Contact.ME, Drive.ME, Kiss.Me, Youand.Me, Insure.me have the potential to create a completely new perception of the websites.
The .me domain names have surpassed everyone’s expectations when it comes to popularity. There were tens of thousands of .Me domain names registered within the first registration day. The world’s giant registrar GoDaddy reported that they received over 20,000 different registration requests within the first 24 hours. Recently, the .ME Registry revealed that it has registered more than 100,000 domain names so far. The main interest comes from English speaking countries including the United States (71%), the United Kingdom (6%), Canada (4%), and Australia (2%).

Do you know of any other domain extension that had world record start up sales like .Me had,
plus sold for over $2 million at a start up auction for .me domains, where only few where allowed to bid? I DONT KNOW ANY OTHER domain extension that has done the same.
Plus the Premium .Me are fist up for sale in 1-2 weeks time

If you look at the facts .Me is doing over all expectations.
Plus few still even know .Me domain is out there

Dot .Me will just get more and more popular

 

[dominator]

obviously .it would be better than .me

all buyers are just resellers
nobody else needs .me
sorry

 

[moneydomains]

You almost sound like one that did not get on the .Me train in time and nervous .Me will become a hit. I am sorry if you did not get any .Me domains.

If it is true that almost every .Me buyer are resellers
then must be hell of allot resellers/domain experts that think .Me will be a super good investment. -
As you know there was a record sales of .Me domains:

On July 17, 2008. DOT .ME domains became open to all, and with no restrictions. During the first two days (July 17 and July 18) the .ME registration broke records. GoDaddy.com processed over 20,000 domain names in the first 24 hours of registration which is definitely a record for the company.

According to Bob Parsons, founder and CEO of Internet giant GoDaddy.com, "To the best of our knowledge, there have never been more registrations handled in one day during the ordinary course of business by any registrar in history."

 

[dominator]

i understand it is a great business for godaddy