Blacknight Solutions, has launched a site that features available first name .me domains that are available for registration and priced at only €4.99 for a year of registration.
The site, GetPersonalwith.Me, list thousands of available first names all available at time of publication.
You can search for your first name and last name and the site will check to see if they’re available or and if it is not the system will suggest a few alternatives.
I still think .Me domains are valuable especially as a first name.
I own Michael.me and as services like about.me gain in popularity I think owning your firstname.me or even your lastname.me will be a good asset to have.
Don’t take this too personally, but a lot of your blog posts are trending towards flogging repurposed TLD’s that you’ve invested in. I quit reading Sarids blog when it became the BIDO report… I don’t think this is a good strategy to employ.
LS
I try not to take anything personal.
I’m invested in many TLD’s including .Mobi and .Eu which I never talk about but 98% of my 75K domains are .com.
So if any of these new extensions became the new .com and made .com lets say like .mobi it would not be good news for me.
Unlike Sahar with Bido I have no vested stake in .Co or .Me or any other registry.
I do and will continue to discuss what is Hot in the domain industry and any news and developments that come out.
well, lol, i visited page and have never ever seen one of those names before or met anyone with any of those spellings
LOL!
Right, you have no interest in .me or .co at the registry level, but as one of the industry pontiffs, many higher level ‘domain investors’ like yourself certainly seem to be doing OK playing the greater-fool landrush market with TLDs like this, which is largely driven by buzz created and legitimized by people who are accepted as cognoscenti and happen to have blogs.
Since your blog is one of the better domain blogs out there, what you say resonates strongly with the Namepros type crowds and I can’t believe you’re oblivious to this. The rub is, do you think many of those people stand a chance in hell of making money with something like .co? Do you think those people- most of whom cannot stay black with the innumerable opportunities that still exist in .com- are employing strategies with the requisite dynamism and sophistication to buy DOT CO (!?!) names and get ahead? We both know the answer to that.
If you examine the history of mass-maniacal behaviors and events- big ones like overvalued real property or small ones like the .co landrush- one thing they all have in common is that they enjoy a tremendous base of less sophisticated investors who are able to reference the actions of experienced people with a track record of proven success who are doing generally the same thing.
I guess all I’m saying is that you should be considerate of what you preach from the pulpit, since a lot of the people listening don’t comprehend everything that goes into the process and probably never will. Go read the comments in the various .co posts, pay careful attention to those who think it’s the second coming and ask yourself if you’d let any of those people manage a nickels worth of your capital.
What you call ‘reporting’ kinda-sorta comes off as boosterism, which fuels the newbie domainer fires and eventual drop lists. Good for a small few, very bad for many, many more. For the health of the broader aftermarket industry, it’s probably not a good idea to help facilitate the shift of significant portions of the capital in play to Colombian or Montenegrin registries, for the sake of unmarketable names that will eventually return to the digital earth.
Well said LS. Michael, you should be ashamed of yourself for promoting some of these dead end extensions like you do. Just think about the people you are leading over the edge in the name of “reporting what’s hot”. Show some responsibility instead of hyping up what is essentially fools gold.
MSK
Again I reporting on sales, auctions and milestones.
There is still no one post you can show me I have written where I say go buy .co domains.
If I report 100 .co domains sold for XXX,XXX that is not an endorsement or hyping the extension, those are just the facts.
@MHB
“those are just the facts”
Another fact is that a small-business with a $100,000 invested in a .COM web-site immediately wants to know, “How do I also get the .CO ?”
Some percentage of 80,000,000 domains will become .CO
At the present time (another fact) it is 500,000 vs 80 million
With the large difference in .CO and .COM retail pricing, the market may
also end up turning .COM into a “back-up” domain. Software in the CPE
could do that without users knowing.
If ICANN flooded the root with 2000+ TLDs tomorrow, it may have some impact on the current dam that is breaking causing .COM to flood .CO.
As long as ICANN has their .COM cash-cow, they will likely do nothing.
Jim
ICANN is not going to flood the root with 2,000 new extensions tomorrow but certainly 500 more in 2012 is very realistic
@MHB
“ICANN is not going to flood the root with 2,000 new extensions tomorrow but certainly 500 more in 2012 is very realistic”
By 2012, I doubt people will recognize “The Internet” as it was last year.
500 would be too little, too late, and besides, those will not be available until “tomorrow”…or in two years…the mantra, since 1998…
The changes in the CPE (edge software) Set-Top-Boxes, etc. will present users with a whole new .NET – Stay tuned…
ICANNs greedily commoditizing the space to the right of the dot will probably have a significant impact on the complexion of the internet, over time… but does anyone seriously believe that their cynical TLD marginalization scheme will create some sort of a rising tide that lifts backwater extensions like .co?
Sure, it might create some narrow brand marketing alternatives to .com and maybe a long time from now, after many years of marketing and developing consumer familiarity, new TLDs might impact .com’s preeminence- break the “dot com impulse”- but from a domain name resale perspective, marginal ‘repurposed’ names like .co do not stand a snowballs chance in hell of benefiting from what’s about to happen. These types of names will not have ‘more meaning’ in the face of more alternatives. Mass TLDs are not a rising tide. They’re a huge sinkhole that will suck down the resale values of the more marginal extensions, with .co being on the furthest fringes of those margins.
The people in here who think riches and millions lie around the corner for their already marginal names in a world with increasingly marginal choices are idiots.
I never quite understood all the hysteria between extensions and .whocares but then I figured it out. When a next extension comes along it sucks out all the $$$ in the industry and makes it hard to sell everything else. So the complainers are the ones with the agenda. Not the other way around so let’s get that straight.
It is a .com world but that does not mean you can’t dabble in .whatever once you have those $$$ flowing in. Rick.com is taken. So I can’t get it. I will never get it because of who owns it.
So the next best thing lately was Rick.co and Rick.me. If Rick.TV were available I would have registered it. But that is a far cry from pumping an extension. I have 2500 .co domains. Is that sac religious or something? When you invest, when you speculate you may win and you may lose. That’s the game! The ones that never lose not only never played the game, they never can win because of that. Then a guy starts on July 20th and he is making 6 figures already with .co. That makes some posters feel inferior. They have been plowing the fields for years looking for that type of success.
What is truly idiotic is when somebody like Mike shares what he is doing RIGHT NOW and then gets accused of this or that. I got news for ya, Mike should not change, maybe some of the readers need to pay better attention and stop being jackasses here and everywhere. They are the ones that should be be shamed!
Mike is on the cutting edge of domaining and folks whine when they miss this or that? Start paying attention. Oh sorry, you are all way too busy complaining to keep the eye on the ball.
And another thing…..
The stuff Mike posts many times (Like this one) are the things he sends to his close friends THE DAY BEFORE! So readers here are one day away from being an insider on so many things and don’t even appreciate it. Accusations and complaints. Really classy. Mike is way to nice to tell you the way it is. But everyone knows I’m not that nice when the time calls for it.
The State of the Union…
.CO – COlorado
.ME – MainE
Ideal open spaces…
.FL
.TX
The double-dash is the new raw land of the internet.
How’s that flowers.mobi thing working out for you Rick? Wasn’t that suppose to be the next big thing? Quite honestly, if you’re not registering .co’s for typo traffic only then you’re pretty much speculating wildly. Sure you may get lucky here or there but if thats the case, you’d probably have much better odds at a roulette table.
Really classy.
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Because if anyone knows class, it’s Rick Schwartz.
it’s a very interesting initiative for those who likes or needs a personal .me
@Mike – thanks for mentioning the site.
To the others – yes we know that some of the names listed are a bit outlandish which is why we keep adding new name lists to the site.
If anyone has any feedback on the site please do let us know
Regards
Michele
“certainly 500 more in 2012 is very realistic”
but, also in 2012, only a few dozens of them will be successful
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“certainly 500 more in 2012 is very realistic”
but, also in 2012, only a few dozens of them will be successful
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DNSMASQ has almost 100% Market Share for consumers in 2010
By 2012, there will be another layer of DNSMASQ or Bump.In.The.Stack as some call it.
Consumers will see at least 4,000+ TLDs without ICANN
A big event is coming soon in November:
http://dot-me.of-cour.se/2010/10/21/premium-me-november-2010/