More and more its looking like any decent .me name is going to be in the four figures and any really good .me domain is going to wind up in the five figures.
Does this roll out change anyones mind about the hundreds of new extensions coming and there effect on .com pricing??
Domain Name Bids Time Left Current Price
insure.me 125 23H 32M $25,705
hug.me 71 22H 21M $13,000
secure.me 90 23H 1M $7,505
why.me 105 20H 26M $6,600
ride.me 60 10H 39M $5,280
ski.me 34 18H 45M $4,525
portland.me 219 23H 13M $4,338
survey.me 73 12H 36M $4,305
finger.me 21 4H 5M $3,055
elect.me 59 22H 20M $3,040
bangor.me 39 23H 13M $2,782
onlinecasino.me 26 20H 18M $2,705
drug.me 29 22H 21M $2,705
tutor.me 41 12H 9M $2,625
ass.me 13 13H 36M $2,425
social.me 52 12H 9M $2,215
thats.me 111 20H 53M $2,105
realtor.me 131 22H 18M $2,030
obama.me 50 8H 13M $2,001
invent.me 75 22H 55M $1,890
brand.me 86 21H 44M $1,541
girl.me 51 21H 27M $1,525
videos.me 37 11H 32M $1,505
blogs.me 26 17H 10M $1,405
escort.me 52 21H 0M $1,315
extre.me 33 19H 11M $1,305
buzz.me 94 21H 26M $1,300
myspace.me 28 2H 36M $1,255
booking.me 30 13H 28M $1,241
california.me 25 15H 33M $1,220
perfu.me 46 22H 54M $1,205
pics.me 21 19H 35M $1,145
scoop.me 32 23H 28M $1,125
voyeur.me 35 7H 17M $1,105
translate.me 42 20H 46M $1,105
attorneys.me 6 7H 19M $1,018
canada.me 29 15H 53M $1,015
gilmore.me 12 17H 21M $1,015
spoil.me 91 20H 46M $1,005
onlinecasinos.me13 15H 8M $1,005
motorcycle.me 30 21H 58M $995
linkto.me 41 22H 16M $875
page.me 46 9H 37M $855
youand.me 38 20H 26M $835
question.me 35 22H 38M $831
beco.me 25 6H 28M $815
newhomes.me 33 22H 21M $785
vacations.me 21 23H 23M $778
apartment.me 19 23H 37M $778
chris.me 17 7H 58M $757
toronto.me 11 4H 38M $705
cell.me 17 15H 8M $660
transfer.me 40 21H 6M $655
satisfy.me 37 12H 23M $621
byte.me 33 17H 14M $620
enlighten.me 21 7H 17M $611
route.me 16 20H 38M $605
mba.me 13 17H 17M $605
stamp.me 16 10H 43M $605
zip.me 27 20H 48M $605
hair.me 27 15H 53M $600
amuse.me 42 19H 0M $600
tech.me 60 22H 54M $581
pri.me 29 14H 37M $570
showcase.me 53 23H 37M $525
lock.me 24 10H 19M $525
value.me 51 10H 19M $520
automotive.me 15 21H 29M $515
pro.me 27 10H 7M $515
tempt.me 27 10H 25M $511
excuse.me 35 16H 39M $510
rob.me 25 19H 21M $507
welcome.me 27 16H 2M $505
Doesn’t really change my mind. There’s only so much money to go around…if 100 other extensions were launched at the same time as .me, would people spend as much money?
What web site are these auctions on?
I also wonder if a lot of people buying are SEO people…
I think .me will be stronger than TLDs such as .biz and .info. Once there are one or two really well-known sites ending in .me you will see it grow rapidly, at least for verbs, like survey.me.
Also, IMO if you don’t grab a city.me or a country.me you’ll regret it. Toronto.me going for US$1000? I can’t see that losing value.
the fact that .me domains are being billed as a great domain extension for ‘personal’ use makes me think the commercial potential is limited. yes, I know .org was for non-profit et al, but I just don’t see a lot of value here.
Perhaps time will prove me wrong…or right 🙂
I agree with Andrew above. In addition, looking at the auction prices above it appears there won’t be many .me domains touching even 5-figures. If a new extension marketed so heavily can’t hit some decent prices then it doesn’t bode well for .me
I guess we just need to wait few more days for the fog to get clear.
Perhaps I may have to eat my words 🙂
Personally, if I were bidding I’d be really pissed about the extensions. Seems they’re trying to milk it while they can. To imagine the firestorm if this were at Sedo
I do agree that the commercial potential will never touch .com, but I think really it’s only domainers who even know there’s such a thing as .me yet. Once somebody gets a .me site into the public eye, all owners will benefit.
Nick, but what commercial company will actually use one of these? I guess I could see an ad campaign for ‘insure.me’, but the odds are low.
I’m actually surprised by a lot of people in the internet marketing and seo community who are buying these domains. GoDaddy has a lot of non-domainer customers who were pitched on this domain.
I hear you, but it depends on how warm and fuzzy they want to be.
Instead of sending people mycokerewards.com, Coke could market Coke.me. Someone big will do it at some point and that will raise the profile of the TLD. All those guys are going to have to buy the .me anyway just to protect their brands, so why not?
Why not have people make their own cards at Hallmark.me?
I got a steal on a few auctions I was in, and capped myself for a certain few @ 500 (like studentloans.me which i lost). In any case, its interesting how high some of these are going, but the extension thing is kinda lame. I don’t get why hug.me is up at 13k though.
rob.me – nice domain name.
.COM – is king
.NET – second best
.biz / .org – 3rd best
.info – great information domain name
I registered the “enomsucks.me” (at godaddy) and felt myself lucky to get it since enom.com had already taken the .com, net, org, info, biz, tv TLDs for itself.
I figure it is a good match for my other just registered domain “enomsucks.us”.
I found out that they had “stolen” my domain today and when I went looking for a kindred community to vent I only found enom parking pages and I figure what with their service and the rudeness of their support staff that they must be making a fortune off of direct navigation related PPCs.
I think my domains are much catchier sounding and I’ve put up sites. I think there is good possibility to develop a real sticky community site on one of them and perhaps a directory related to registrars on the other.
Anyway, to at least be mostly on topic and with a passing reference to a “3d” suffix comment(s) in another thread I figure that there are lots of good “****suck.me” domains still available and I would have registered “tucowssucks.me” except for I don’t like the ss’s together, even though it is hissingly snakelikingly appropriate.
RKB
Guys don’t forget that these auction are not even for the reserved names, that is the names the registry held back for the purpose of auctioning.
Considering this is just the auction for the valuable domains I am very impressed by the numbers.
Guys
Lets also not forget that no one knows the effect of Apple’s purchase of me.com and how much of a verb “me” becomes in internet usage
I don’t see any tie from me.com to *.me.
What percentage of bidders in the .me auction are buying for price appreciation?
My guess is that it is in the high 90s %.
Speculators buying in order to sell to other speculators.
MHB, I know you are routing for this extension but I don’t see many people jumping up and down about it.
When I see just ONE company launch and promote .me I will give it a second thought.
Rob
I just want to be clear here.
As I write this blog everyday, I give my opinion with no end goals and completely unbiasedly.
This is why I don’t accept ads.
As I sit here today, I still do not own a .me domain.
Not one.
I’m in some auctions but the way the prices are going, I still may not have any in a week or two.
But I call stuff like I see it. Even when I have no personal interest or any benefit to me.
So I am not “routing” (think you meant rooting) for this extension, I just happen to think in my personal opinion its going to be a good extension and there are many good .me names worth having
Now do I think hug.me is worth 15k?
Maybe, but I’m not going to pay $15K for it.
and remember these aren’t even the premium names the registry held back. Let’s wait and see what some of those go for in TRAFFIC NY.
Sorry. I did not mean to imply that you have an agenda to promote .me if that’s how you read my comment. That was not my intent.
You sound like a fan of .me and that you would like to own some good .me domains and see them become more valuable. Nothing wrong with that at all.
Sorry, didn’t mean to be negative. Keep up the good work.
Rob
No problem, just want everyone to know where i’m coming from. Like I hear people tell me “you hate .mobi because you missed on them”
I just don’t operate that way.
I give my honest opinion, sometimes I call it right, other times not so much.
But I “get” the .me thing. I don’t “get” the mobi thing
Just as an example
and if I was really that smart, I would have bought Property.com instead of Rick doing it.
hindsight is 20/20. .me is high risk but can be high reward too.
These prices are insane for .ME…..I can not wait to see who is bidding on these and here more of the reasoning for such strong investments.
These auctions make .mobi look promising
These .me names are just asvaluable or worthless as any other “garbage” extension like .GS or .BZ
Truly amazing to see these names selling for this kind of money,IMO
Steve
The prices are getting very lofty.
However I still say since .me is a word and ,gs and .bz aren’t you cant compare them.
There are some natural killer combo’s and people are shelling out.
marry.me; your seriously telling me that is just as good or bad as marry.gs?
I couldn’t agree more.
Let’s also not forget that the “gimmick” of .me works in Spanish as well as English. If anything, .me may be bigger in Latin America than in the Anglosphere.
Look how many people liked the cuteness of an URL like del.icio.us. Anything decent in the .me TLD has that beat by a mile!
Dontflame.me
Okay. I’m in.
I just hand regged a city/international tourist destination.
Let’s just say that if Associated Cities allowed .me domains in, I’d get it 🙂
So, I have $40 in the game now.
Glad you got in. Morpheus was the original domainer. He said,”Time is always against us.”
Mike,
There is a differance no doubt between marry.me and marry.BZ.
However, How much is that worth?
Are you going to develop a dating site? Is someone likely going to spend money on a name to ask there wife to marry them with the name? I mean, how do you monetize the name and at what cost?
The name is “cool” but at the end of the day is about money and I want to know how an investor recoups that money on any of these .ME names over a .US, .Mobi, or even a reg fee .BZ
When you answer that…I go back to what is the “real” differance between marry.me and marry.BZ
Steven
I believe marry.me is a brandable site, especially in a world with hundreds of extensions.
What could you do with it, easy, make it a site for all things wedding, rings, invitations, planning, dresses, transportation, honeymoons the whole works.
A natural.
Name will sell for 25K++ easy.
Steven
Actually if your going to be in NY I’ll bet you a drink its sell for at least $25K
and I drink Blue so it’s going to set you back $60.
I don’t doubt the name sells in that 20K-30K range but that doesn’t make it a smart buy. IMO, It means that the buyer can “afford” to speculate and doesn’t mind loosing substancial money. In the world I live there are opportunities daily to make lots of “safe” of safe money with an equal or higher ROI.
Why would anyone want to invest 25K into a name like marry.me as you say to make it a site for all things wedding, rings, invitations, planning, dresses, transportation, honeymoons the whole works.
They can do that with any other name out there and will be in the same “basic” position.
How many sites currently do that with weddings? How many people are holding their generic .com and other extensions names waiting for someone to come buy them so that person can develop that exact site. How many people or companies are out their with 6,7, and 8 figure budgets waiting to go start that business you describe? IMO, not enough to warrant the prices and speculation that exists. That is the exact reason too many people who think they hold gold hold “fools gold”
Again, If the buyers goal is to look at their portfolio and say, wow, I have a great vanity name, then they should I buy it.
I like to think anyone shelling out that kind of money cares about things like ROI.
I mean, if that is the case, VEG.as and names like this should be worth a fortune….right?
On a different note….I was coming back from Peurto Rico the other day and saw a 1.75 L bottle of the blue at the Duty Free. I tried to purchase it and was for international flights only.
“I mean, if that is the case, VEG.as and names like this should be worth a fortune….right?” False. You’re just breaking up the word. It’s far easier to brand something like keyword+me then something like keywo.rd
Steve
I guess we can at least agree on the blue picked up some on the way out of the country for $153.
But you know how they do in the big apple, they sock you hard.
Tekmo
VEG.as what does that mean??
If you don’t understand the value of marry.me or buy.me against veg.as or trre.gr i don’t know what to tell you, I throw my hands up on that one
The 1.75L was $299
I never saw blue in that big of a bottle before.
If you are after .me domain names check out the following which are available for registration – there are many more.
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MHB I think you should reread my comment because im pretty sure we’re agreeing
Wouldn’t this same thinking apply to the Italian extension?
Seems like endless possibilities that will never really catch on.
love.it,hate.it,want.it etc..
Those type names don’t seem thriving in the aftermarket, although I’m not doubting someone would pay top dollar for them.
Or with the us extension
teach.us, insure.us
LONG LIVE THE .COM !!!
Good points by Jody with the .it and .us examples.
After the hype dies down and with the upcoming wave of new extensions, it will be real hard for .me investors to ever make back their investments. I am referring to these fully priced if not overinflated auctions and not necessarily hand reg’s.
Damir
None of those make any sense to me.
None are using the natural .me language and therefore they become like the others say just another extension.
Jody
Interest point.
I haven’t seen .it or .us ever marketed as a verb just an extension, so maybe godaddy is ery smart.
The only other extension marketed as something other than 2 letters is .tv and I see that in use in the US and overseas by television stations
The average person outside the EU can’t grab a .it DN with just a few mouse clicks, which limits use in the US of A.
BTW, in response to someone’s inquiries the auctions list can be found here:
https://auctions.domain.me/
CBS has a major music site coming soon at play.it
I know this thread is a few days old, but I was hoping to get a few comments on whether I should bid for the domain name talkto.me? I’m in an auction with 22hrs left and the bids are up to $2,010. I’ve already snagged godhelp.me (for like $50) as a vanity name for a blog and had hoped to build a dynamic community esque site (not social networking) site around talkto.me in the same vanity sort of way. Initially, I figure that’s a nutty amount of cash to drop on a domain name for 2 years, but when I realize vanity license plates here are around $500, it doesn’t seem so crazy for a worldwide plug.
I agree that generic non verb or catchy .me names might have limited appeal or worth, but this seems like it might be one that has staying power. What are your thoughts on this name and whether I should bid up to the amount I’m willing to “possibly lose” by snagging this name?
thanks for any thoughts (plz make ’em quick the auction is ticking!! 😉
Cdude
I’m in that auction as well.
Personally I think $2K is too much.
I dropped out at $1K.
Its a two word .me domain.
My personal opinion
thanks for your thoughts MHB… I dropped out too – at $3K that’s just crazy. For me at least – I don’t have an established enough plan that is dependent on that name to pay that kind of cash.
Though I could see verizon or t-mobile easily paying lots for it if they had a campaign in mind…
>Guys don’t forget that these auction are not even for the reserved names, that is the names the registry held back for the purpose of auctioning.<
Yes and many of the .me domains selling now are already selling for at 5 figures!! –
The .me domains semes VERY HOT already even the best have not yet been up for sale.
There are many people who only consider .com to be important. However, there are many cases where these .me .us .it etc can be use cleverly. From a marketing point of view they are invaluable.
IE on TV 2 split tested ads would run.
insureandgo.com
insure.me
.com had already gone okay. but insure.me still has more of an edge.
That’s part of my 2 cents worth….