Growing popularity of social media and the fact that blogs, social networks and community portals are becoming the most visited online destinations and are changing the face of the Internet. This is an ideal opportunity for an ordinary user to personalize his/her online experience. Keeping up with these trends, .ME Registry and NameJet announced the Internet’s largest online auction of personal names. If you’ve always wanted a domain with your very own name on it, now is your chance! More than 300 personal names and surnames with a .ME extension are up for auction, starting April 5th, 2010.

It does not get more personal than this:

There has been a great deal written about how to engage with social media to establish a name for yourself online, but a commonly overlooked piece of the puzzle is also one of the simplest: owning your own domain name.

How a Domain Fits With Personal Branding?

Whether you’re just beginning online or you’re a social media power user who has more online profiles than you know what to do with, a domain is an essential part of owning your brand online. If yourname.com is already taken, .net or .me extensions are also great options for a personal site.

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Numerous possibilities of .ME domains are best summarized by the Registry’s slogan “.ME is about YOU”. Still, there is much more to say and Xavier Buck, CEO of EuroDNS, elaborates further on .ME brandability “We launched .ME in May 2008 and the registrations haven’t stopped growing since.  .ME offers so many possibilities in terms of marketing and innovativeness for companies, organizations and also personal sites. To follow this positive and ongoing trend, we are offering a 50% discount until this summer. Don’t miss this chance!”.

Like.ME?Like EuroDNS? Get your .ME at EuroDNS for a special price!

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This blog is another perfect match between a personal domain name and extremely useful website content. It talks about everything from social media, PR and marketing to making the most of the various online tools and communities. It’s aimed at everyone. Among other things here is what Danny says: “If there’s something you’d like to read about and you can’t find it here, please feel free to contact me and ask.ME to look at it for you. Community is everything!” It is a fact that social media is not only on Danny’s but everyone’s lips, and questions about how it can impact you and/or your business are being asked every day. However, Danny not only asks but provides answers – check out his “7 days to turn your blog into a social media hub”.

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Major brands such as Wordpress (WP.me), Universal Pictures and Facebook (FB.me) are now using ME domains for promotions – how do you think businesses can use the extension to create memorable brands?

-With .ME you can create a perfect call to action or verb related site with a name that makes an impact, people remember it.

-You will see more of this, I am already starting to see .ME showing up in searches I make for different terms I have searched for, they are being developed and I truly think this is just the beginning.

- Call to action names have always been popular with branding, now think about having it attached to a domain extension that makes them personalize the action being requested and it takes it one step further.

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If YouLike.ME, InvestIn.ME at NameJet Auction. Backorder before February 18th:

Companies.ME
Delight.ME
GiftFor.ME
Preview.ME
Min.ME
software4.ME

and many more!Do YouFind.ME catchy? We do.

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Anyone who uses a computer knows domain names .com or .org. But what about .to or .me?

The .me registry in Montenegro went live in 2008. Since then, more than 320,000 names have been registered.

Why so popular? Ask Matt and Katy Mansell. Matt bought willshemarry.me. Katy said yes. And after that the couple used the site to keep friends abreast of wedding plans. But there’s more. Matt has had “an awful lot of people” want to buy the domain. He hasn’t set a price or agreed to sell even though .me names like his are selling post-purchase at auction for the likes of $10,000 and $15,000. The .me domain is also being registered by major companies. Microsoft.me, for example.

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