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I awoke a few days ago to a countdown timer on Godaddy.com. I’ve made a conscious choice recently to purchase whatever domains I feel are or might be worth something, anything, to anyone.

So with intrigue I registered two domains that I have now been told I did not manage to register.

I first went straight to southafrica.me and bought it, money off my credit card.
Then I went and tried to buy talk2.me and again, money off my credit card. Gone.

About twenty minutes later and I received confirmation of the registration of both the .me domains successfully went through. Unfortunately that was not to be as I received this:

Dear Nic Haralambous,

The following domain name has failed to be registered:

SOUTHAFRICA.ME

Error: SOUTHAFRICA.ME: cannot register - already registered

We will evaluate this error and retry the registration
if appropriate.

If we are unable to successfully register the domain
name, your account will be credited accordingly. Please
allow one business day for the refund to be processed.

Please contact GoDaddy.com, Inc. if you need any further
assistance:
http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/support.asp?prog_id=GoDaddy&isc=gdbb14

Sincerely,
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

And that was that. Done and dusted. No domain, no millions of dollars from the fantastic SEO tips that obviously have cause they are hot property right now. Now talk2.me, no southafrica.me no nothing, at all, nada, zip.

But I think I’ll make it out alive, I still have a trump card or two that could come in to play. But who doesn’t these days?

I did manage to purchase haralambous.me which I have redirected to this domain. My question, in the end, is whether or not it’s actually worth owning a .me domain?