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) me-over-100 As for current auctions here are the only ones over $1,000: sync.me $40,005 verify.me … [Read more...]
If You Can Make This Kind Of Money, Why Not Sponsor a Registry?
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 including its profit on the 50,000 or so .me domains that were registered in the first days … [Read more...]
MediaPost: How New TLD’s Can Effect SEO
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 love keyword-enriched domain names, since finding exact keywords in domains … [Read more...]
.ME Auctions are Lasting Too Long For Even The Registry: Changes Announced
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 UTC on 11 August 2008. The update is being made to comply … [Read more...]
.Me Updates of Closed Sales
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 … [Read more...]
Screw.Me
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 some of domains seemed to have gotten registered today by someone. Some of the auctions are … [Read more...]
.me Open registration Start Tommorow at 11am EST
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 a 2 year registration and the cost is $19.99 per year. … [Read more...]