.me TLD Domains Available
The floodgates opened at 4pm GMT for those looking to buy .me domains; GoDaddy in fact crawling to a halt shortly after rendering checkout a gruelling 20-25 minute process. Unfortunately it seems that all dictionary words (e.g. "code.me") were taken. I'm not sure if these have been reserved for auction or taken the second registration opened, but it stopped the likes of me getting my grubby hands on them.
No clues for guessing which domain I snapped up, though... :twisted:
Update (18/July): I can't believe that some people are shouting 'conspiracy' because GoDaddy failed. So they had a massive system bugger-up... it doesn't make them con-artists. There was talk before registration opened that the dictionary words may have been scooped up for auction, it's no surprise that other combinations were also held. I had 4 failed orders on top of the 1 that was successful, and I'm not worried. GoDaddy will give me my money back.
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On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 19:30, Stephanie said:
It's only .me available? I was under the impression that anything was allowed now, which means the very order of the Internet is about to crash (!!!11!!1!). But if only .me, then mass confusion won't HAVE to take hold, I guess...
I should think about getting a domain of my own. I quite like the old rules for domain names though...
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 19:33, Jem said:
@Stephanie: it was agreed to allow anyone and everyone to create a TLD but that won't be for a while yet, as far as I'm aware. (And it'll be VERY expensive!)
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 19:35, Rammi said:
I was able to snap up glomp.me without any problems. :-D The only problem now is what to do with it...
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 19:44, Brenda said:
Hehehehe. Lemme' guess. jemjabella.me? Or maybe jem.me
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 19:47, Jem said:
You're right, Brenda, but I'm not saying which one
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 20:06, Vasili said:
It's jem.me, right?
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 20:07, Jem said:
Of course
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 20:10, Vasili said:
Really? Or are you just saying that? -.-
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 20:12, Jem said:
Really!
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 20:55, Katy said:
oh shut up
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 22:48, Aimée said:
Aw, cute domain name! Love it. Good grab, Jem! I have no idea what I'd get...
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 23:00, Jem said:
It's a shame the minimum character amount is 3, otherwise you could have got ai.me then with an 'e' folder.. ai.me/e
;)
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 23:10, Stephanie said:
I hope it'll be VERY expensive to create a TLD. People feel too entitled to everything already... *eyeroll*
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 23:14, Carly said:
good grab, jem.me is very cool. Good for 'jem' and it looks like jemmie! lol
I read in the paper that they are thinking of either .sex or .xxx for porn sites. or neither at all and not having one.
I bet carly.me has gone :-(
On Thu 17th Jul 2008 @ 23:52, Amanda said:
Am I so out of it that I had no idea this was even happening? Obviously puts me at a bit of a disadvantage...:P
On Fri 18th Jul 2008 @ 01:41, Rebecca said:
Hehe 'jem.me' is a good one
Cute! Too bad the tld isn't randomly '.ma'.
On Fri 18th Jul 2008 @ 02:16, Aaron said:
... what's this going on?
On Fri 18th Jul 2008 @ 02:58, Rise said:
If it were me, I would go for fuck.me. Hehe.
But I'm weird like that and that was the first thing that came to mind when I read "No clues for guessing which domain I snapped up, though…". 
On Fri 18th Jul 2008 @ 04:02, Hev said:
Hmm...I stayed out of this craze. I didn't think I needed another domain name, lol. I have enough trouble with the one I have. Anyway the next one I will get is hevstitch.com for my shop at http://xstitch.tigerwhispers.com if the shop takes off. But for now I am happy with tigerwhispers.com
Besides hev.me just sounds weird.
On Fri 18th Jul 2008 @ 04:04, Hev said:
I forgot to ask, what are you going to do with jem.me?
On Fri 18th Jul 2008 @ 05:12, Vera said:
... well have fun with it. Personally, I don't really see the appeal of having a lot of domain names, especially when I have no idea what to do with them. Plus I've got really attached to mine.
On Fri 18th Jul 2008 @ 05:25, Shannon said:
Ha. Jem.me is a very nice domain.
I'd get one, but everything I purchase on the internet is on my parents' wallets, and I need to beg for approval for everything.
On Fri 18th Jul 2008 @ 07:42, Phil said:
I'm in an auction soon for aweso.me
I tried to buy weso.me so I could subdomain it a.weso.me but GoDaddy's failings meant someone else got there before me.
jem.me is pretty cool though!
On Fri 18th Jul 2008 @ 08:32, Brenda said:
Hurray for jem.me!
On Fri 18th Jul 2008 @ 11:23, Regina said:
Your lucky you managed to get a domain! regina.me is not available. =(
On Fri 18th Jul 2008 @ 15:27, Aimée said:
I love that idea... Maybe I can do something similar. Hm.
On Fri 18th Jul 2008 @ 17:06, Veronica said:
My plurk page has been filled with people registering .me domains, I think they're cute. I'd get one if I could come up with something clever and cute like some I have seen so far (bite.me, glomp.me etc). Even jem.me is cute, veronica.me or naco.me would sound weird.
On Sat 19th Jul 2008 @ 04:13, Stephanie said:
i want blasphe.me
On Sat 19th Jul 2008 @ 12:45, Chelsea said:
I think this is an example of why they should allow people to register a domain with any ending they want. It just causes a riot
On Sat 19th Jul 2008 @ 19:18, Bubs said:
I'm so out of the internet loop right now... I didn't even know there were .me domains available O_o
On Sat 19th Jul 2008 @ 20:24, chanel. said:
That sucks to get so excited for something and it becomes unavailable. I had no clue about these .me domains until I came here, lol.
On Sun 20th Jul 2008 @ 12:19, Carly said:
I bought a .me for work, (they like to own as many domains as possible to stop competitors getting them) but carly.me had already gone. :-(
On Sun 20th Jul 2008 @ 12:39, Chelsea said:
Oops, I meant to say shouldn't*
On Sun 20th Jul 2008 @ 16:17, Cory said:
I think this was an amazing idea for GoDaddy. I can't wait until custom TLDs, and I'd be willing to get a great one quick.
On Sun 20th Jul 2008 @ 21:23, Vicky said:
I tried to get a couple, but they failed too. I just couldn't think of anything 'witty' enough that was still available, ha.
I like Jem.me, though, it works really well!
On Mon 21st Jul 2008 @ 00:42, Arwen said:
I was so excited to snatch up shiny.nu - I don't think I'll be buying another domain for a while lol. I don't get all these people who snatch up multiple domains for their personal use.