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Paypal Launches New Branded Site on Paypal.Me: Get Your Vanity Address Now

September 2, 2015 by Michael Berkens

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According to Gizmodo.co.uk, Paypal wants “Paypal.Me to Become a Catchphrase”

Paypal has launched a site on Paypal.me to allows users to set up a vanity address on Paypal.me so instead of giving someone an email address to send you money you can tell them to send money to paypal.me/blogs (which is what I just set up before publishing this post).

If you already have a Paypal account it’s all ready to go today.

Clicking on the Paypal.me takes you to a signup page where you choose your username and have it auto-associated with your existing Paypal account.

Someone then visiting the domain paypal.me/yourname is then presented with a simple web page that lets them type the amount, change currencies and send it off. ”

Although Paypal has owned the domain name Paypal.me since 2008 it just updated its servers for the domain in June and rolled out this site yesterday.

It’s a natural great brand domain of a saying (or catch phrase) that people use all the time.

Lots of vanity addresses have been taken already including many I checked including domain, domains. media, worldwide, blog.

 

Filed Under: .ME, Branding, Internet News

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. brian says

    September 2, 2015 at 9:56 am

    likely right up there with all the confusion when LogMe.In was attempted.

  2. Steve says

    September 2, 2015 at 10:41 am

    Super.

    I have lots of transactions via Paypal, and this is perfect.

    Thanks — also I was able to get my name.

  3. Bram says

    September 2, 2015 at 10:45 am

    Love the simplicity 🙂

    Too bad you can only get one vanity name per paypal account. Found a few great ones but in the end had to choose one of them…

    For whoever wants it, the handle “domainname” is still available at the time of writing this!

  4. Bram says

    September 2, 2015 at 10:48 am

    The handles “Premiumdomains” and “premiumdomain” are also still available.

    • DNSal.es says

      September 2, 2015 at 12:06 pm

      You can also specify the amount right in the URL. So handy:

      E.g., https://www.paypal.me/domaining/100

  5. joy antony says

    September 2, 2015 at 11:07 am

    got message…

    “We’re sorry about that…
    Unfortunately PayPal.Me isn’t available in your country (India)”

    • DNSal.es says

      September 2, 2015 at 12:05 pm

      The company says the PayPal.Me service is launching in 18 markets, including the U.S., Germany, U.K., Australia, Canada, Russia, Turkey, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Austria.

      • steve brady says

        September 2, 2015 at 2:09 pm

        I bet countries #19 & #20, had they been given access, would be Jamming the system for names relevant to the first 18, going as far as cloning new accounts to round up as many as possible.

  6. steve brady says

    September 2, 2015 at 11:26 am

    Thanks TheDomains for the info this morning. Picked the shortest, easiest to spell/remember word available.

    http://www.paypal.me/gaga

  7. Dk says

    September 2, 2015 at 11:31 am

    Yep, generics flying off the shelf. I got: events

  8. DNSal.es says

    September 2, 2015 at 12:08 pm

    The feeling is that PayPal is trying to make a verb out of itself. Just like Google did over the last decade. Pretty smart! One day even Oxford dictionary may contain it.

    On the other hand .ME domain names are getting super hot. Unlock.Me is to be sold this Sunday on GoDaddy: https://auctions.godaddy.com/trpItemListing.aspx?&miid=40454141

  9. steve brady says

    September 2, 2015 at 12:25 pm

    Selecting a nickname apart from the actual account name can serve as Two-Step Authentication. If you share the same name as hundreds of other people like I do, there is a greater chance of a typo causing it to be sent to the wrong Bob Jones, Bobby Jones, Rob Jones. Even if your exact match name is available, picking an alternate paypal name convinces someone they’re sending it to the right you.

  10. Jen says

    September 2, 2015 at 12:40 pm

    Thanks! I was able to get a 5 letter word that is easy to remember and spell.

    🙂

  11. ave says

    September 2, 2015 at 2:07 pm

    I’m the only person with my first name/last name combination and to be honest I’m not comfortable with displaying that info to everyone including Google.
    I always avoid using the real name online…

  12. Bram says

    September 2, 2015 at 2:52 pm

    Got “arts” for my personal paypal and “almighty” for my business paypal. I’m happy 🙂

  13. John says

    September 2, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    Here’s a cheap pump-lol We own PleaseText.me I think we’ll be keeping it now for a while but we need a developer! It’s actually easy to see how “PayPal.me” could become a mainstream saying. Bruce Marler is proven correct again. re .me

    • Dk says

      September 2, 2015 at 11:00 pm

      Please text sounds needy. Why are you keeping it?

      • John says

        September 3, 2015 at 7:52 am

        First of all because I can and secondly because it’s “Please Text Me”.We have plenty of Institutional type names like eEconomist.com among others so if we have one or two that sounds “needy” then that’s fine. Good luck.

  14. steve brady says

    September 2, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    Got “cio” for business paypal. Before lunch today, “escrow” was still available, hats off to the gentleman who claimed it by the time I returned. What a great handle! “Who should I PayPal it to?” “Escrow.”

    paypal.me/cio

    • Dk says

      September 2, 2015 at 11:01 pm

      Names were flying off . Some great catches. Yep, escrow is one of the better ones that are not immediately obvious.

  15. Joe says

    September 3, 2015 at 4:18 am

    I got ‘hotel’ and am very happy with it 🙂


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