.Me proves to be very popular, auction reaches $218,000
About a week ago, there was an announcement that there would be an auction in NYC, called the T.R.A.F.F.I.C auction, auctioning off the rights to a few “.me” domains. Right now, most domains end in .com, .org., or .edu.
I didn’t think that having .me at the end of a URL would fetch so much money at an auction. However, there have been a lot of clever URL names incorporating .me. Take a look below to see which domains sold for the highest at the auction.
The highest-priced domain sold was “Date.Me” which sold for $70,000. As you can imagine, this site will probably be another online dating service. The next was “Love.Me” which sold for $32,500. Again, this is probably another online dating service. Next, we have “Kiss.Me” which sold for $20,000. That’s right—another dating service.
“Buy.Me” came in at $17,500; expect an online store selling a variety of things. The next few include “Loan.Me” for $15,000, “Marry.Me” for $12,000, “Show.Me” for $10,000, and “Watch.Me” and “Play.Me” sold for the same price - $7,500. Last but not least, “Rent.Me” sold for $6,000. All of these domains totaled about $218,000; people must really like their .Me.
Predrag Lesic, the registry’s executive director, was especially proud with the way the auction went:
“We are thrilled with the success of dot-ME. The buzz was tremendous during the auction. Clearly the TLD [Top Level Domain] is connecting with people in a big way.“
If you want to buy a “.Me” domain, then head here to purchase one. If you do, let us know what domain you purchased.
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Love the MEs. Bought a bunch. http://www.mardenconsulting.com/forsale_me.html
I have some names in the TRAFFIC auction, is interesting to see how they go. Google has endorsed them as many ME sites are out of their sandbox. Strongly believe this TLD is going to be one of the stronger ones after the usual bunch.
Thx for the post
on September 30, 2008 at 02:08 PM - LINKThought it was funny that bite.me was on the reserved list but not byte.me
Also on the reserved list. . . . . ####.me
on September 30, 2008 at 06:02 PM - LINK