TechCrunch Covers About.Me: Is This a .Tel Killer? & How To Reserve Your UserName Before Its Gone
TechCrunch just covered a great .Me domain that is launching its site soon, About.Me.
According to TechCrunch.com, About.me allows users to put up a personal page “that points people to your content around the Internet, allowing you to pull all this information together to build a single online identity.”
“There’s a lot more to the product on the back end to help users understand how many people see your profile, where they’re coming from and what they do on your page.”
“You can’t sign up for it just yet, but you can reserve your username.”
“Just go to About.me and type in your email and the username you want. ”
“If it confirms the name is yours.”
“If not it’s already taken or reserved.”
While its a little early to tell, the idea and description of the site sounds a lot the purpose and reason for having a .Tel domain, but of course about.me will be free.
You can see a sample of what an about.me page would look like here and here
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Good to see competition too. About.Me, Flavours.me, Name.ly, Sincere.ly … you name it!
Which URL do you like the most?
Yep,
read that article as well.
There are some big named people that have about.me pages and are supporting it.
the SIMPLE ideas are the best ideas
Aron
I have my card on http://yours.sincere.ly/mark
“Is This a .Tel Killer?”
no, but I’ve already done a preregistration to About.me
however, could this site have TM problems with About.com ?
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Wow! Now this is certainly THE .com killer! Fer sure! Fer sure!
Get yours while you still can! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!
This one’s gonna be HOT! HOT! HOT!
(Oops; sorry. Thought I was part of the hype-the-.co crowd for a minute there.)
“this is certainly THE .com killer”
no, I’ve said it ISN’T a “killer”
I don’t think that About.me is going to have a trademark issue with About.com.
Its a completely different application as about.com is a search engine and about.me seems to be about social networking and promotion of members
About.ca recently expired. There’s also a TM for that domain. Someone didn’t do their job.
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Thanks!
Signed up, got a great user name.
“About” is generic and if used as a descriptive word for the product or service to be offered cannot be TM’d, at least in the U.S. I can’t think of a more descriptive word for a personal site than “about.”
Yesterday, on its website, Sedo had an article about this very issue.
Will about.me succeed? Remains to be seen.
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About.me could be the seed of a new social network
Don’t we already have linkedin, facebook, twitter etc for stuff like this. Too bad neustar uses about.us they could start a corporate version of this
I checked it out as well, but someone noted to me that they may be ripping off http://flavors.me
Flavors seems to be doing a much better job than About.me and they let you use your own domain name.
This is great news for AboutMe.com
about.me is cool, but I don’t think we need to ask if it’s a ‘.tel killer’. I don’t think you can kill something that was already stillborn to begin with.
also, .tel is a TLD
about.me only a site
““Is This a .Tel Killer?”
no, but I’ve already done a preregistration to About.me”
LOL ! The same who bashes .co tells us he loves this crappy .tel extension.
That’s what I said: it depends on whether they missed out the launch or not.
Doesn’t about.me cover almost the same concept as ThatIs.me?
There are definitely too many sites to keep track of
ThatIs.me is part of Name.ly. Name.ly is based on WordPress. Offers pretty the same features plus few extra ones: cards (like card.ly), multisite framing (to put any number of sites under one address, all with short links, perfect for twitter folks).
Name.ly give a choice of nice URLs, sincere.ly is the most popular so far. They also keep the other 200+ jingly ones, like cool.ly, sure.ly, savvy.me, peek.in, etc, ready in the pipeline.
about.me is down atm…4:19pm MST…and has been for a few hours…hmm?
“Too much buzz may kill you”, look at their traffic: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fabout.me#
They need to add few more reseources to handle it all.
Certainly the idea behind About.me is nothing insanely unusual but it has a bang on domain which I think helped attract the VC money and the investors which got this site covered by TechCrunch rather than thatis.me or flavors.me.
So for domainers its the same story.
A great bang on domain is going to give you many advantages all other things being equal
aboutme.com belongs to blogster, a rival it is believed.
Hahahhaha… people already snapping up generics.
Given Arringtons disdain for domainers, I wonder how it will appear when his tech guys wake up tommorow to check their user reg logs and see the same IP registered about.me/forex, about.me/Florida, about.me/hotels…..
How much would you pay for about.me/florida or sincere.ly/forex?
.Me Of Course!
aboutme.com belongs to blogster, a rival it is believed.
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Yes, Its not for me … I signed up on the .COM of course
Name.ly has just added Facebook connect – so registrations are a matter of two clicks.
It costs BILLIONS of dollars to train the general public (USA) to go to anything other than .com.
“.com” is the brand of the internet right now. It’s the default.
Maybe in 10 – 20 years something may pick up … but all of these different .tld just won’t pick up any time soon. By the time they actually start getting traction (I mean where MILLIONS of people will automatically begin to take notice of the extension) a new form of navigating online may be here.
…Out of curiosity (not to say it doesn’t exist) but can anyone name a .net., .org or whatever that is more popular than the .com with the caveat of not already owning the .com?
(Just wondering)
Regarding .net – oversee is a good example. Then bigmir. 10% of .net even don’t have .com registered.
Plenty are their. .COM is still powerful, but its market share is in decline indeed.
@Joel
“…Out of curiosity (not to say it doesn’t exist) but can anyone name a .net., .org or whatever that is more popular than the .com with the caveat of not already owning the .com?”
Sure. According to Compete.com Jesus.net has over 10 times the uniques as Jesus.com
Jesus
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@MHB
The interesting thing is that both Jesus.net and Jesus.com are fully sites. Jesus.com has been around for many years. Jesus.net is a brand new site. So we are not comparing a parked page.com to a developed site.net
the ” about me ” thing
Regarding .net – oversee is a good example. Then bigmir. 10% of .net even don’t have .com registered.