Comments on: The rush to buy .me

By: Aviyan

Aviyan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:27:29 +0000

Our team managed to pull in some hefty .me s. Somewhere around 19 anyway, we did some research, and I agree. With personalization giants such as Youtube, Facebook and Myspace, the same ideology applies to .me. Only now the personalization lies solely in the hands of the creator. Just like a .com, but .me is saying something. People are all about that sole person in their life “me”. And that person prevails every time in these cases. It is truly here to stay and will make a great investment towards the future.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:30:21 +0000

I’m waiting for Pepsico to launch dew.me…will I wait long?

By: another thought

another thought — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:19:26 +0000

RE: gTDL and coke–that is super interesting and the Chinese, under the current rules, could lay claim to it… But, they might want to buy it in Chinese charachters rather than Latin… So, the Sino-cola wars may be averted… Whew.

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:43:29 +0000

OK - I’ll shut-up for now, but back on-topic for a miinute…

I just punched some more colorful expressions into the GoDaddy domain search (think the acronym for a Van Halen album) and as suspected, they were all taken. But, what I found somewhat amusing were some of the alternatives suggested and the fact that their engine is obviously intuitive.

By: tdc

tdc — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:39:34 +0000

funny you should mention boston… abcboston is another can-o-worms.

btw- your pov has moved considerably closer to what i’ve been saying for the last few years (tieing yourself to one supplier).

i am only offering up the nbcxxx stuff as advice for those too busy watching their share price erode.

By: tdc

tdc — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:34:37 +0000

ultimately branding or not, the <$10 it’ll cost to secure the name NOW is far better than the multi-$$$ worth of hassle that will follow when wnbc does their thing later this year (think NewBeginningChurch Chicago or that abc thing in miami).

evidently the nbc affiliate in pittsburgh ain’t waiting around to find out having just registered a month or so ago.

columbus, augusta, losangeles,sanfrancisco, hartford, miami, raleigh, etc.

wanna bet i’ll sit back and have a good old “i told you so” not too far up the road?

and, dial position as a brand? you have to be keeeeeding!

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:26:00 +0000

Also, if I might stick with my network-flipping theme…

Throughout my early life, WRAL was an ABC affiliate and WTVD was on CBS. Then, WRAL’s parent bought the ABC network and for reasons that I’ve never researched, WRAL was spun-off to a free-standing company, it switched to CBS and WTVD became an ABC O&O.

Also, one of the times that I lived in Boston, WBT flipped from NBC to CBS. In this case, I don’t think ownership changed, it was simply an affiliate switch, but it’s probably a good illustration of the pitfalls of tying yourself too closely to one supplier.

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:04:48 +0000

A random whatever about the nbcxxx idea: When I was a kid, the NBC affiliate in Raleigh was WRDU; Then the station was sold and the same channel number, the same NBC affiliate was rebranded WPTF; Now, NBC is on a different number, it’s owned by a different company and it has different letters. I’m sure most markets/stations aren’t as fluid as to make so many changes over the course of 40-odd years, but it could be an argument against branding yourself so closely to one network.

After all, it wasn’t that many years ago that a lot of CBS stations flipped to Fox because of CBS’, then low ratings and because Fox had won the bidding for football.

By: tdc

tdc — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:33:35 +0000

in response to ‘another thought’: here’s yet another thought-

who gets .coke?

coke (the fuel) was pioneered by the chinese in the 11th century (according to wikipedia) and coke (the pop) in the very late 1800’s (again wikipedia).

this is an oversimplification of what’s about to happen, but worth ‘another thought’.

By: another thought

another thought — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:37:45 +0000

The real story will be the 2009 gold rush for gTDL’s, as any word and non-latin characters will be allowed as Top Level Domains.Of course, you’ll need a million dollars to buy one from ICANN, but that may be a drop in the bucket for the ability to control to the right TDL.

By: Donald Turnbull

Donald Turnbull — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:09:03 +0000

I got bvi.me for the British Virgin Islands. Going to turn it into a cool vacation site.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:51:03 +0000

I think tdc might have a point. In any case, I have a feeling this is a fad that won’t ultimately have much effect on anything.

By: tdc

tdc — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:03:19 +0000

i have to tell you though, these extensions are nearly WORTHLESS (.my .opinion).

like someone said either here or elsewhere “it’s like having the 1-800 version (.com) vs. the 1-866 or 1-888 or 1-877.

they will only enhance the value of the .com .

mauitoday.tv did a 3 minute parody of their own name using their audience to prove it.

By: tdc

tdc — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:11:59 +0000

yes, but alot of nbcxxx.com remain un-taken.

???

i say that again to my nbc affiliated friends who may not realize their importance going fwd.

wncn in the next story down just happens to be nbcraleigh, don’t they?