Today at 8 am PDT / 11 am EST registration started for new domains ending in “.me”. I personally attempted many domains most of which were gone already within minutes of opening. Some I searched said available still which I figured was just a glitch and after reading twitter for a little bit saw people discussing it and how they have already registered some domains and then search for it again and see it still available.
I only successfully purchased the domains: Bryn.me and friendfeed.me (c’mon Google offer me some cash!).
Many people got false confirmations of purchases to late find out that the domains they registered and PAID for were already taken. So now we have to wait a day or so for refunds, oh well. The godaddy website was VERY slow for about an hour once registration started, which is understandable with the amount of people searching and checking out.
I personally think this was a fail because of all the false registrations that thousands of people made only to later find out they got rejected.
What if any .me domains did you guys get?
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.me sounds lame.
Brynzo FTW, I’ll be checking your blog in the future.
Boomark’d!
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I had 2 domains that showed up in my godaddy panel, I was able to change their DNS, upload and view a holding page on this domain. And then 2 hours later these domains were removed and I no longer have access to them. I tried the WHOIS and it seems someone else now owns them !
aghhhh
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Wow that is pretty ridiculous, godaddy needs to get their self straightened out.
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I ‘registered’ four .me domains, get confirmation of success and payment annnnd then the ‘domain taken’ email about an hour or so later. Lame.
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Yup, the thing I hope that doesn’t happen is if they only give people back “credits” on go daddy instead of full refunds, that will cause a outrage for sure.
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I think I got beam.me because I got the sale confirmation e-mail and no FAILURE e-mail. Although nearly 12 hours later the domain name has yet to show up in my domains control panel. Ugh…
More of my take about the .ME landrush here -> http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/the-me-rush-of-08/
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NEVER USE GODADDY! for this kind of stuff they also did the same shit with .ASIA
they are not orgenized well and there are others to do the job well!
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Yes, I agree with you .me was a total fail, it is just going to be like .asia the day it came out everyone was after it week later no one cares.
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I was able to get “itsy.me” for use as an iphone app site. No problems here. Sorry to hear of the problems other have had.
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This seems to be the case in most of the desirable domain names. Its really difficult to get hold of one you like and want. I managed to get my family name and intend to keep it always. Apart from that I have tried with my name, but never could get what I wanted and instead of compromising and choosing something that is similar or near to what I want, I have continued with only a single domain name. Now that domain names have been opened to be whatever you desire, only our imagination should limit us from having the kind of domain name we want.
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Hello
I love google and Yahoo!
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G’night
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