To .me or not to .me, that is the question

by Nic Haralambous on 21/07/2008

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?

nharalambous@gmail.com

There are 5 comments in this article:

  1. 23/07/2008Dimitrio says:

    I am not into the whole .me thing, just wait it out and pretty soon you will be able to register any top-level domain name you like! sort of like this one:

    http://g.ho.st

  2. 23/07/2008Lola says:

    Okay so maybe I’m just not as tech-savvy as I thought I was… please explain the .me thing?

    What are the benefits/ differences to your average .com/.co.za/ .org.

    Most intrigued!

  3. 27/07/2008Aquila says:

    Dude, buying domains to sell them to the people that might want them/or are the rightfull owners of a trademark? Isn’t that borderline cybersquatting?

  4. 27/07/2008Nic says:

    Aquila – I didn’t say that I was buying the domains to sell them back to anyone. I was trying to buy valuable, viable domains to start projects and generate businesses/revenue from!

    And I can’t think of anyone who deserves haralambous.me more than…me.

  5. 28/07/2008Aquila says:

    Of course you deserve your own domain..

    Big up on the plans to take over the world.

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