According to a blog post on its site, Digg.com was just sold to Betaworks who will be folding Digg.com into News.Me which is also owned by Betaworks. "We couldn't be happier to announce that the next generation of Digg will live on with the team from Betaworks which will be combining Digg with News.me, a Betaworks company with an iPad app, iPhone app and daily email that delivers the best … [Read more...]
The Sedo Generic .Me Domain Name Auction Ends Tomorrow & 53 Domains Have A Bid
The Sedo generic .Me domain name auction ends tomorrow Thursday July 12 starting at Noon EST. As of publication with just about 24 hours to go out of the 190 domain names in the auction 53 have at least 1 bid on them but only 2 domains have reached reserve. Shared.me has a high bid of $999 and has hit reserve as has the domain, Recall.me The domain namechic.me has the most number of bids … [Read more...]
New Study Shows 18% Of Business That Have The Word “Me” In Its Name, Use a .Me Address
Brands-and-Jingles just completed a study that looked at 1,000 companies that use the word "me" as part of their company name and found that at least 174 of the 1,000 are using the .ME extension for its website. The study used Linkedin to find the 1,000 companies "A big surprise was to find no less then 174 companies that use .ME domain name as their brands:" 20Spot.me, About.me, acade.me, … [Read more...]
Sedo Joins With Brands-and-Jingles For Domain Auction Of 190 .Me Domains Including: Tagged.me; Follows.me, Shared.Me
According to a press release out tonight, "Sedo.com is running in partnership with Brands-and-Jingles is holding an auction of 190 premium .ME domain "at the level of the nominal prices ranging between $149 and $999." Unlike some of the recent registry owned .Me domains that only had keywords, this auction contains some call to action type of domain names. "Most of the names were secured … [Read more...]
How Hot Are .Me Domains? This Company Covered By TechCrunch Goes With A Typo Of a Hack
A Techcrunch story last week passed through the domain name community without comment but it caught my eye since the story was about a tec company not only building their brand around a .Me domain but a Web 2.0 misspell or hack of what other call a true hack So the domain at question is Recmnd.Me which of course is a misspell of recommend.me, a Flickr.com type of domain if you will It … [Read more...]
Sedo Announces Next .Me Registry Auction; We Have All 200 Domains To Be Auctioned
Sedo just announced the next .Me branded auction of registry owned premium .ME domain names. The auction begins on May 26, 2012 and runs until May 31, 2012. In all there are 200 .Me domain names included in the auction As in the previously couple of .Me Sedo auctions, the list is light on call to action or verb domains and has a lot of keywords and Geographic domains. Here is the … [Read more...]
.Me Announces Another Auction Of Registry Owned .Me Domains On Sedo
SEDO and the .ME Registry have announced they have partnered for domain name auction of registry owned .Me domain names. The auction begins Feb. 2, 2012. There are 179 .Me domain names in the auction and here they are: … [Read more...]