The .ME Auctions, which have been going on since late July, finally ended today, with projects.me selling for $1,410.
By my count 2,140 domains were sold between $75 to $90,025.
The registry hauled in just about $2.2 million dollars over the auction.
These auctions were for any .me domain backordered by more than one person before the landrush.
The complete list of .Me domains auctioned are here:
me-auctions (excel File)
Now comes the real fun.
As predicted weeks ago, the first 12 reserved .me domains will be auctioned off by the .me registry at the Live TRAFFIC Moniker.com domain auction in New York in just over 2 weeks.
Those 12 names are:
Love.Me
Buy.Me
Date.Me
Meet.Me
Ask.Me
Show.Me
Kiss.Me
Rent.Me
Watch.Me
Marry.Me
Loan.Me
Play.Me
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9 responses so far ↓
1 tekmo // Sep 5, 2008 at 3:57 pm
ugh i’m so pissed i lost a few auctions because i was traveling during their auctions. oh well, still picked up a few good ones
2 MS // Sep 5, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Geesh - only 2,100 domains sold. Save your money folks! This has .waste written all over it.
3 MHB // Sep 5, 2008 at 5:31 pm
MS
These auctions of course does not include the straight registrations which are over 100K.
4 Phil // Sep 5, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I agree .me is a complete .waste. If .me was the only extension today it would take at least 10 years and a new search engine giant to reach developed popularity of .com. I would rather buy property in Mars.
I really wonder what is the percentage of purchased .me domains truly meant for development?
5 MS // Sep 5, 2008 at 11:31 pm
I also heard .travel is gonna explode!! Go get some while they’re still good ones left!!
6 Damir // Sep 6, 2008 at 6:41 am
Nice ones:
Love.me
Play.me
Kiss.me
7 Mark Kolb // Sep 6, 2008 at 7:35 am
Dot.ME is a great extension for branding. It’s a perfect marketing package where the domain is also the brand or service. Like successful.me for education, champion.me for a sports company, http://www.beerdrinker.me for a beer company. The advertising community will make use of the intrinsic names.
Mark -
http://www.canadian.me !
8 MHB // Sep 6, 2008 at 8:23 am
MS
.Travel is being relaunched with the restrictions taken off the extension
9 Premium Domains // Sep 7, 2008 at 6:16 pm
.ME is quite catchy, and I can imagine it will be used creatively in marketing campaigns. I think it may end up like most TLDs, that experienced high popularity during the launch phase, and then faded into obscurity after. It may hve the same faith as .TV?
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