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.
17 Jul at 6:30 pm
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…
17 Jul at 6:33 pm
@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!)
17 Jul at 6:35 pm
I was able to snap up glomp.me without any problems. :-D The only problem now is what to do with it…
17 Jul at 6:44 pm
Hehehehe. Lemme’ guess. jemjabella.me? Or maybe jem.me :P
17 Jul at 6:47 pm
You’re right, Brenda, but I’m not saying which one ;)
17 Jul at 7:06 pm
It’s jem.me, right?
17 Jul at 7:07 pm
Of course :P
17 Jul at 7:10 pm
Really? Or are you just saying that? -.-
17 Jul at 7:12 pm
Really!
17 Jul at 7:55 pm
oh shut up :P
17 Jul at 9:48 pm
Aw, cute domain name! Love it. Good grab, Jem! I have no idea what I’d get…
17 Jul at 10:00 pm
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
;)
17 Jul at 10:10 pm
I hope it’ll be VERY expensive to create a TLD. People feel too entitled to everything already… *eyeroll*
17 Jul at 10:14 pm
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 :-(
17 Jul at 10:52 pm
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
18 Jul at 12:41 am
Hehe ‘jem.me’ is a good one :) Cute! Too bad the tld isn’t randomly ‘.ma’.
18 Jul at 1:16 am
… what’s this going on?
18 Jul at 1:58 am
If it were me, I would go for fuck.me. Hehe. xD 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…”. :p
18 Jul at 3:02 am
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.
18 Jul at 3:04 am
I forgot to ask, what are you going to do with jem.me?
18 Jul at 4:12 am
… 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.
18 Jul at 4:25 am
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.
18 Jul at 6:42 am
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!
18 Jul at 7:32 am
Hurray for jem.me! :D
18 Jul at 10:23 am
Your lucky you managed to get a domain! regina.me is not available. =(
18 Jul at 2:27 pm
I love that idea… Maybe I can do something similar. Hm.
18 Jul at 4:06 pm
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.
19 Jul at 3:13 am
i want blasphe.me :P
19 Jul at 11:45 am
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 :P
19 Jul at 6:18 pm
I’m so out of the internet loop right now… I didn’t even know there were .me domains available O_o
19 Jul at 7:24 pm
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.
20 Jul at 11:19 am
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. :-(
20 Jul at 11:39 am
Oops, I meant to say shouldn’t*
20 Jul at 3:17 pm
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.
20 Jul at 8:23 pm
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!
20 Jul at 11:42 pm
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.