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Buy.me (Domain Dealers: .me domain names now available)

June 6, 2008 by Jenn Sierra  
Filed under Web 2.0

Buying (and in some cases hoarding) domain names is still a big business for some seeking to make a profit online. One of the most famous domain name battles was the one over the WalMart.com / Wal-Mart.com domain name, in which an early domain name speculator bought the Walmart.com domain name, hoping to make a huge profit when Wal-Mart finally went online. Wal-Mart turned the tables on him by adding a hyphen to its name and domain name, making the original domain name virtually worthless at the time. Lawsuits ensued.

If you type in either Wal-Mart.com or WalMart.com, you’ll see who eventually won that battle.

Another tactic used by domain name speculators is to grab up the alternate top-level domains (TLD’s) like .org, .net, .tv, .info, .gov of famous organizations, or catch-phrases that promise to be popular. Remember “Don’t Taze me, Bro!”? Some industrious person(s) went to GoDaddy.com, and grabbed up donttazemebro.com, donttazemebro.net, donttazemebro.org, donttazemebro.info, donttazemebro.tv…etc..

Well, as of today, there’s a new domain name craze. “.me” is the TLD for Montenegro, but has lots of possibilities for domain name speculators worldwide. (hmmm…I wonder if help.me, love.me, bite.me, and youdontknow.me are taken?)

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  1. fordy on June 6th, 2008 3:31 pm

    Do you think .me domains are worth it. I run a website for finding Available Domain Names and I’m wondering whether to include .me

  2. Jenn Sierra on June 6th, 2008 3:47 pm

    Hi, Fordy! I’m certainly no expert on this subject. I would guess that the really catchy ones, like those mentioned above, and perhaps byte.me might be good investments. (Look for the ones that actually make a saying when spelled out - also check other languages where this might be possible, like Spanish and Italian, in which “me” is a word.)

    I don’t know if spending money on your own domain with the .me TLD is really necessary. It would depend on whether your opposition could do something with that domain that could actually damage your business. Like, for example (hypothetically) if you had a site called “Punch,” and your current domain is punch.com, maybe you should go ahead and buy punch.me (I’m just sayin’). ;-)

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