.ME is Spreading Around the World, More Than 50,000 New Names in Open Registration.The Web's new personalized domain proves popular around the globe PODGORICA, Montenegro -- The .ME Registry officially opened for live, real-time registrations July 17, 2008 and was met with huge international demand. More than 50,000 new domain names were registered in the first two days, with the first "live" name registered being: yusu.me. "While English speaking countries led the way in registration volume, many non-English speaking countries such as Germany, China, and France made a strong showing," said Predrag Lesic, the registry's executive director. "We believe this bodes well for the international success of .ME as the only domain that is all about YOU! .ME is a domain space that offers personalized names for your products and services, or your personal presence on the web, including email, in a more generic way than any other." Top 10 Countries of .ME Registration by Percentage 1. United States < 50% 2. United Kingdom < 11% 3. Germany < 9% 4. Canada < 5% 5. China < 3% 6. France < 3% 7. Netherlands < 2% 8. Australia < 1.5% 9. Israel < 1% 10. Spain < 1% "The .ME registry performed extremely well and was able to accommodate the high demand for .ME domain names," said Ram Mohan Ram Mohan is the Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Technology Officer at Afilias Limited. Afilias, based in Ireland with offices in the US, Canada, India, UK and Germany, is the registry operator for the .info and . , Afilias' Chief Technology Officer. "Afilias' registry system performed reliably, recording new create requests in under 21 milliseconds and processing more than 5,000 names in the first minute of open registration. In total, the registry seamlessly accommodated more than 60 registrars vying for .ME names." The registration process for .ME began in May with the Sunrise period The term Sunrise Period refers to the period of time at the launch of a new top-level domain or second-level domain during which owners of trademarks may register a domain name containing the owned mark. for trademark holders. Land Rush for the general public to register names began in June. In total more than 30,000 domains were applied for in Sunrise and Land Rush periods, and more than 50,000 new registrations were adding in the initial days of live, real-time registration. A list of more than 85 accredited registrars from 24 different countries offering .ME domains is available at 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 according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. 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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