EnCirca the registry of the .Pro domain announced today
that the extension will be relaunched on September 8th.

The relaunch of the .pro domain is now allows all licensed
Professionals from every country in the world.

Previously, .pro was limited to professionals in the
engineering,accounting, legal, and medical fields in
the United States and three other countries.

Now all licensed professionals from […]

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The .Me auctions are starting to wind down.
At this point there have been 1143 domains sold for $100 or more in the auction period:
The total sales from these 1143 domain is just under $2 Million.
For a complete list of all the 1143 domains click here: (excel file)
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As for current auctions here are the only ones […]

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Without a doubt the .me launch, from a purely economic point of view,  has been a huge success.
I added all the winning bid prices from the closed auctions and add all the current high bids on the active auctions and came up to a total of around $2 million.
$2 Million dollars for the registry, not […]

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An interesting post in MediaPost talks about how the new TLD’s may become a nightmare for trademark holders but also will be a boon for sites trying to get their SEO rank increased.
“”””Search Engines and the Domainrush If and when it does happen, look for an immediate impact on search engine marketing. Search engines […]

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The .ME Registry  announced a change that may shorten some of the .ME auctions, some of which have been going on for over two weeks:

Here is the official announcement:

Dear Auction Participant,

This notice is to inform you of an upcoming update in the behavior of the auction platform that will take effect at approximately 16:00 […]

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Here is all of the .Me domains that have been auctioned off (closed auctions) for $100 or more.
The 4th largest price name is Baidu.me, i certainly hope the chinese search engine bought that domain.
Same for mitsubishi.me which sold for $6,550
Domain Name                     Closing Price    Bids
lasvegas.me                       $15,105          87
chatwith.me                       $15,035          22
picture.me                         $10,240          71
baidu.me                           $10,005          64
onlinecasino.me                 $10,005          […]

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So we applied for 150 .me domains with Godaddy which should have been awarded before the landrush today (or put into auction) and out of those we got the grand total of:
zero
that would be none, nothing, zipo.
We did get a notice that we would be in an auction for 31 domains 2 days ago, but […]

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The open registration period for .me domains opens tomorrow at 11am EST, 8am PST.
About 30K names have been preregistered and Thousands more have been reserved and will be auctioned off at a later period, no sooner than September 2008.
All other domains will be avalible on a first come first serve basis.
You will have to do […]

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I just got this message from the .me folks:
“””Thank you for your interest in .ME domains. You recently received multiple emails for the .ME domains you are bidding on, each displaying a separate Shopper ID.
Please disregard those messages. We’ve come up with a new solution for creating just one Shopper ID for ALL your […]

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I just got though going the 2 step process for creating separate accounts for each of the .me domains I backordered, which look like they are going into auction mode.
Although I backordered all the domains through my godaddy account in one shot, I got about 60 e-mails, one for each .me domain (not identified in […]

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