.ME Domains Hit Quarter-Million Milestone.Worldwide Growth & Interest in Internet Sensation is Boundless PODGORICA, Montenegro -- The .ME Registry announced today its popular ccTLD extension has hit 250,000 domains registered. Montenegro's .ME Registry has seen significant growth since it launched the domain extension worldwide just over one year ago. In fact, .ME is the fastest growing new ccTLD. JamesCrocker.Me, registered through GoDaddy.com, was the name which pushed the Registry's portfolio to the quarter-million milestone. The .ME domain extension has proven to be incredibly popular worldwide. More than 48,000 applications were received to participate in the current online auction of .ME domains which ends in just a few days. The next online auction, hosted by NameJet.com, is scheduled to begin June 5. Many in the online marketing community believe .ME's popularity directly correlates to the domain's branding power. "Dot-ME is extremely suitable for consumer brands," notes Mark Kychma of Brands-and-Jingles, a marketing firm based in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Ukraine. His company owns hundreds of .ME domains. "Try to forget brands like Hotels4.Me, Pizza4.Me and Tickets4.MeO there is a 99 percent chance you will not," adds Kychma. "Tell your friends about Love.Me, Fancy.Me, Unlock.Me and they will remember them for ages." The power of the right domain name combined with a .ME extension is astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, . YouAnd.Me, an explosively popular online dating service A Net dating service, also known as online dating or Internet dating, is an example of a dating system and allows individuals, couples and groups to meet online and possibly develop a romantic or sexual relationship. , launched just three months ago. According to the site's founder, Steve Sikes Sikes can refer to: People
"This is the kind of reaction we always knew we would elicit with dot-ME," states Predrag Lesic, executive director of the .ME Registry. "Dot-ME has become an Internet phenomenon." To find out more about .ME domains and where you can register, visit www.Domain.Me. About the .ME Registry: .ME Registry (the d.b.a. of doMEn, d.o.o.) was chosen by the government of Montenegro The Government of the Republic of Montenegro (Serbian: Влада Републике Црне Горе, Vlada Republike Crne Gore to operate the new .ME domain name extension. .ME Registry partners include ME-net, GoDaddy.com and Afilias Limited. Me-Net is located in Montenegro and its principals have been leaders in the ICT (1) (Information and Communications Technology) An umbrella term for the information technology field. See IT. (2) (International Computers and Tabulators) See ICL. 1. (testing) ICT - In Circuit Test. sector in Montenegro, including the privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned of its largest ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. . GoDaddy.com is located in the USA and is the world's largest domain name registrar An organization that manages Internet domain names. Any person or company that wants a presence on the Internet must register a unique name with one of the many registrars, such as Network Solutions (www.netsol.com) or Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com). and the largest paid hostname provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. Afilias Limited is headquartered in Ireland and is a leading registry services provider, supporting more than 13 million domains worldwide. |
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