.me
| Top-level domain .me | |
|---|---|
| introduction | September 24, 2007 |
| category | country-specific |
| Registry | Government of Montenegro |
| Award | unrestricted |
| number | 0.7 million (as of January 2015) |
.me is the country-specific top-level domain (ccTLD) of Montenegro , which was created in the course of the country's independence from Serbia and Montenegro on September 24, 2007 , and from July 2008 the previously used top-level domain .yu ( Yugoslavia ) replaced. It was initially administered directly by the Montenegrin government.
The company doMEn , a company based in Montenegro consortium Irish resident registration company to its partners Afilias and the registrar Go Daddy and the Montenegrin company ME-net belong, were selected as the new operator of the TLD. Together they operate under the Internet address domain.me . In September 2012, dotMe became known to a wider public because of a commercial in the USA under the motto “You're not a corporation. You are a person. Get the right web address. ”Was broadcast.
This means that .me is used similarly to B. the top-level domains .tv and .io . Instead of creating a local reference to the respective country, these endings are often used according to their linguistic meaning.
properties
Registrations are made at both the second and third levels. While addresses like co.me, net.me, org.me, its.me or priv.me on the third level are reserved for citizens and companies of Montenegro, anyone worldwide can register an address on the second level. In total, an .me domain can be between three and 63 characters long; special characters based on the IDN procedure are currently not possible. The connection of an address usually takes two working days and is fully automated.
The use of popular first and last names in .me domains was initially not possible after the introduction. It was not until April 2010 that dotME auctioned addresses such as kevin.me or paul.me together with NameJet as part of an auction .
distribution
When starting the domain .me she was in great demand: The term me is in English, both I and me and me , so interesting addresses are possible as love.me , kiss.me and many more. These very lucrative addresses were not available at the start, but were auctioned off later. In August 2008, two weeks after the official launch, 100,000 .me domains were already registered. In March 2010 there were already 320,000, making the .me domain the fastest-selling TLD of all time. In July 2011, exactly three years after its launch, the number had risen to 530,000 in over 200 countries around the world, with about 53 percent in the USA, about eight percent in Great Britain and about four percent each in Germany, Canada and Japan were.
.Me is of secondary importance on trading platforms such as Sedo , especially in comparison to popular ccTLDs such as .de or .cn . .Me only achieved national recognition in November 2011, when the meet.me domain was sold for the record sum of 450,000 US dollars.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Registered .me domains. In: Domains.info. Archived from the original on November 12, 2014 ; accessed on January 27, 2015 (current .me domain number).
- ↑ Delegation Record for .ME. IANA, accessed November 15, 2012 .
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: News from .eu, .lu and .me. In: domain-right. January 29, 2008, accessed November 15, 2012 .
- ↑ Who is .ME. Archived from the original on June 25, 2012 ; accessed on June 22, 2012 (English).
- ^ Corporate Guy. In: YouTube. September 14, 2012, accessed November 15, 2012 .
- ↑ Properties of a .me domain. united-domains . Retrieved November 15, 2012 .
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: News from .uk, .me and .basel. In: domain-right. March 24, 2010, accessed February 17, 2013 (third paragraph).
- ↑ News from .me: Run on the Montenegrin domain. In: domain-right. August 27, 2008. Retrieved June 21, 2012 .
- ↑ Montenegro's .me domain name gain. In: BBC. January 9, 2010; Archived from the original on January 10, 2010 ; accessed on June 22, 2012 (English).
- ↑ .ME Celebrates Exceptional Growth In Domain Registrations. In: .Me. July 20, 2011, archived from the original on May 12, 2012 ; accessed on June 22, 2012 (English).
- ↑ Daniel Dingeldey: Joint venture kisses Domain awake. In: domain-right. November 22, 2011, accessed February 17, 2013 .