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.Me Auctions Begin Tommorow

July 20th, 2008 · 20 Comments

Just got an e-mail saying that the first .ME domains auctions start tomorrow for those domains which received more than 1 pre-order.

The auctions will last 3 days each and we will of course let you know how they are going.

Here are the domains we have on our radar for the next 2 days:

ride.me
why.me
escort.me
translate.me
hug.me

The last name, Hug.me was the same domain that the “Tech Crunch” article discussed last week.

Apparently that domain was given to at least 8 people and now it looks like they it was taken back and placed into an auction.

We would expect hug.me to get the most bidding for the first bunch of .me names.

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20 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Tony Lam, DMD // Jul 20, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    Mike,

    Just wondering if you dabbled into the dotAsia pool at all?

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  • 3 MHB // Jul 20, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    Tony

    No I didn’t, and guess with lasvegas.asia selling for 30K already that was a bad move

  • 4 tekmo // Jul 20, 2008 at 6:53 pm

    I have about 17 i think of these auctions to go through over the course of the next month. I’m curious to see how high they go… i don’t plan on bidding too high on any particular one so we’ll see. If you look at the previous sales list when you log into the auction…. there was a bidding war for lastminute.me and ended up over $3k or something which i thought was weird.

  • 5 scott // Jul 20, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    FYI: I logged in and this is what has taken place thus far according to the .me auction site/recent sales.

    plug.me $75
    reminyl.me $75
    dove.me $805
    lastminute.me $3,605
    wellness.me $1,855

    Good luck to all with .me auctions!

  • 6 MHB // Jul 20, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    Tekmo

    I have 35 in total over the next few weeks.

    I think that the ones starting tommorow are the first ones.

    I think the one’s showing already completed like lastminute.me are test names, not real auctions.

    If you do the whois on it you will see that domain was given to a trademark holder, not through an auction

  • 7 MHB // Jul 20, 2008 at 7:08 pm

    Scott

    If you do a whois on all these names you will see they were awarded based on trademarks. Those auctions never occurred.

  • 8 scott // Jul 20, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    MHB

    Thank you for the clarification!

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  • 10 Jeff Tonetti // Jul 20, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    I bought a bunch for pure speculation value…
    No Auction Required For:
    StockTrading.Me
    CarRacing.Me
    AutoRacing.Me
    FuturesTrading.Me
    and others….
    I know they are not clever like Finance.Me but for reg fee thought it was worth the shot, many great keyword terms available

  • 11 tekmo // Jul 20, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    Ah ok that clears things up. I’m excited to see how high or low the domains sell for!

  • 12 tekmo // Jul 20, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    also, I hope the auctions are one thing that doesn’t fuck up with this new TLD

  • 13 MHB // Jul 20, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    Tekmo

    I agree I hope the auction goes smoothly, also it would be nice to know how many people you are bidding against but so far, no info on this

  • 14 Jeff Tonetti // Jul 20, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    Just got BettingOn.Me , it seems as though the non auction route is pretty decent as well

  • 15 Tony Lam, DMD // Jul 20, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    Here are some suggestions:

    supersize.me
    exercise.me
    locate.me
    find.me
    cellphone.me
    text.me
    mail.me
    email.me
    fax.me
    phone.me
    locate.me
    gps.me

  • 16 MHB // Jul 20, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    Jeff

    Nice one

  • 17 MHB // Jul 20, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    Tony

    A lot of these on the reserved list.

    http://www.domen.me/cms/site_files/dotME_Premium_Names.txt

    This name will auctioned by the registry, starting in September.

  • 18 Damir // Jul 21, 2008 at 11:17 am

    There are still good .me domain names available for registration.

  • 19 Kenny // Jul 21, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    .you / .whatever is coming out next year, why waste time registering .me ?

  • 20 MHB // Jul 21, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    Kenny

    Here is my thoughts.

    There are some natural words that work with .me.

    Take hug.me for example.

    or fly.me great for an airlines.

    Those names have value in my opinion.

    Now just picking words and putting them in front of .me doesn’t make sense, like wildwomen.me or roses.me I don’t get.

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