.me and you? Be ready for Montenegro domain names!
St. Valentine’s day is approaching. Haven’t got any gift idea? Maybe you should declare your love or communicate your wishes by acquiring a .me domain name. Why not listento.me? read.me? creditcardfor.me? crazyof.me? kiss.me? (this is a suggestion from a colleague…)
However, the registry has not determined a date for registration launch yet. Regarding the NIC.ME rules, dot me will not be submitted to restrictions and domains will contain between 2 to 63 characters. According to the registry evaluation, Go Daddy will act as agent for domain exploitation.
Montenegro, formerly an autonomous region of Yugoslavia, has become an independent state since 2006. Which relation with domain names? According to NIC.me, “all domains, registered below “.yu” domain and related to registered identities with residence in Republic of Montenegro [...] will be available at least 12 months starting from the day of official delegation of “.me” domain administration to Technical Administrator, i.e. due to final extinction of “.yu” domain”. To sum up, your .yu domain name will disappear if you have registered it with an entity established in Montenegro.
Dot me represents a branding opportunity for English speaking countries. With the expansion of social networkings, .me would help web users to make their blog more personal. However, this is not the first time that a registry tries to give an individual aspect to its extension. Registry for .ps (Palestinian territories) has marketed its extension as Personal Sites. The .ps campaign has not been very successful (4,200 .ps domain names at the end of 2006).
Tags: delegation, domain administration, domain name, english speaking countries, gift idea, independent state, me domain, Montenegro, palestinian territories, republic of montenegro
March 12th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I expect the big resellers will buy up all the domain names they can, then create thousands of holding pages while they try to make as much money as possible.
Is there any chance people from Montenegro will be able to get hold of the domains? It would be too much to hope for, I suppose.
May 7th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Sunrise4/28/08 – 5/20/08
(includes Pre-Registration)
Trademark holders may submit requests for .ME domains. After the sunrise period closes, domain names requested by multiple trademark-holders will be auctioned between the requesting parties.
Landrush5/6/08 – 6/26/08
(includes Pre-Registration)
Anyone may apply for a .ME domain name during this period. After Landrush closes, domain names requested by multiple parties will be auctioned between the requesting parties.
Open Registration 7/17/08
Domains issued on a first-come first-served basis.