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Yahoo! has acquired the domain name to enhance the brand of its social networking site, meme.yahoo.com, which allows users to connect and share their common interests. “Thanks to Sedo’s services we were able to obtain the Me.Me domain name, which is an essential component of our online branding strategy,” said Antonio Silveira, director of product development and engineering, Yahoo!. “Sedo went the extra mile by proactively recommending the domain for our campaign and utilizing their existing relationship with the .Me Registry to quickly and securely acquire it on our behalf.”

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On the heels of personal names auction, .ME Registry has been working with Moniker to provide global bidders with some of the most clever call-to-action dotME domains available. The result is a large catch phrases auction at “SnapNames” which begins on May 4th. If you ever wanted to Change.Me, See.Me, Feel.Me, Clone.Me, or use your dotME in any other way, check out the full list of names:

HEXONET recently had the fortune and opportunity to connect with Mr. Predrag Lesic, CEO of dotME, whose insights on the dotME registry and where it may be heading are not only engaging, but also highly informative.

HEXONET:
The .ME registry is quickly approaching the second anniversary of its “Go Live” this July 16, 2010, how many domains do you anticipate to have under management by then?  Also, what main factor do you attribute to .ME’s success thus far?

Predrag:
Well, considering the number of daily registrations we are currently seeing, we should expect to have approx. 430,000 Domains under management on our second anniversary. The main success thus far for .ME, besides it being a memorable TLD, having multiple varied uses, and the registry having outstanding relationships with its registrars, is the fact that Internet users have the ability to recognize not only the value of a domain name, but the value of a message sent through the name.  The Web is becoming more personal than ever, and the ability to create online content personalization is an integral part of .ME

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Unlike conventional URL shorteners, “That Is.Me”, a new social platform, provides web addresses that read as slogans or complete sentences. It went live in earlier 2010 and has dozen, if not hundreds, of other jingling names in the pipeline ready to be released as soon as the demand catches up. With “That Is.Me”, it is now possible to have Internet sites with addresses like thatis.me/johnny or london.thatis.me. On top of these nice and catchy URLs, “That Is.Me” also offers web templates that consolidate multiple user profiles and web sites on one single page. For instance, “Frames” theme will load all user’s sites into one page and make switching between them as easy as an instant click on the tabbed menu.

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Call.ME, a domain acquired by Domain Invest (DI SA) for 20 000 EUR will become one of the first virtual telephone booths. It will enable visitors to call online from the website www.call.me any landline or mobile phone worldwide without having to install any software. “The Internet is a virtual world which, by all means, should have a virtual telephone booth. It’s simple, but brilliant,” notes Natasa Djukanovic, Marketing and Sales Director of .ME Registry. “The dot-ME domain, Call.Me, is a perfect example of how our extension can be used as a call to action. We are thrilled to see this kind of technically advanced, easy-to-use service offered with a dotME name.”

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