I'm never going to use Godaddy for anything like this again. They well and truly fail.
I would not blame GoDaddy for anything.
GoDaddy, like every other registrar, has to play the rules of .me so they follow the sunrise, landrush, and public periods.
GoDaddy and every other registrar have been SLAMMED all morning. The countdown timer on GoDaddy went to 8am Pacific Time Zone and about 20 seconds later the .me was available to use.
My first order on GoDaddy took around 18 minutes, just waiting for the server to handle the request. What sucks is when you check for a domain name, it's available, but in the 18 minutes it takes to get through checkout, someone else may have grabbed it up at another registrar and then you pay for and GoDaddy tells you they did not succesfully register the domain for you. No big deal, the same email says they will refund you with 24 hours so I'm cool with that.
And just to throw out there, while I was waiting for GoDaddy, I jumped on Enom figuring I could double up with my time and Enom was just down.
I dont think GoDaddy has or can do anything wrong to screw us over. I'm not a GoDaddy fanboy, but I also have yet to read any real valid complaints toward them.