Nikola Bojic and Blazo Milic, two bikers from Podgorica are finally back from their journey around the world!! It seems that two motorbikes, 99 days and a .ME domain name were just about enough for them to complete a journey of  a lifetime and let everybody know about your adventures.  The short trip from Montenegro to Serbia marked the beginning of this remarkable feat. After Serbia they drove through Romania, Moldavia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia and then they decided to cross Atlantic, drove through Canada and USA and get back to Montenegro via Western Europe. What is more interesting they maintained and repaired the bikes, cooked food and put up tents completely by themselves. However, they managed to keep us all updated through the official blog TheRideAround2010.ME. Now, once they are back home, we may expect a one last post – a short summary of ride around the Globe. Stay tuned!

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After “Join.ME” was sold for 45 000 USD in May, another premium dotME domain name was snatched at the aftermarket – “Equip.ME” was sold at SEDO for 15 000 USD. With this sale dotME domains made it to the top 4 of SEDO’s ccTLDs sales proving once again the existence of huge market demand for ccTLDs but also the necessity of spreading personal content and brandable message around the Web.

Let us wait for July to see what happens next!

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After a great series of dotME promo banners like “It’s all about .ME .ME .ME” and unforgettable “You want a piece of .ME” , the great BlackNight launches another .MEmorable banner featuring father’s day theme. Is your dad tired of ties and socks? Get him a truly personal gift – his own dotME name.

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A lot of registrars are currently promoting .ME, but this is one very cool video add made by NTC hosting.  As part of its dotME promotion NTC offers .ME domain controls which include: full DNS management, URL redirector, unlimited park domains etc. Like it? Stay tuned for more of top-choice domain for personal websites and NTC’s current offer.

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Flavors.ME has been already mentioned at dotME’s blog as one of the best destinations if you want to create an elegant personal website. This website development tool got increasingly popular and it was featured in Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, sponsored by Microsoft Biz Spark.

A four section design panel makes Flavors.ME ridiculously simple to use.  You can:

• add up to 19 different web accounts to their site in service section with content being automatically refreshed and pulled into Flavors site.
• select from a pool of different layouts from a design section each with their own flare for organizing the connected services.
• upload your own background image, adjust the color scheme with color palettes or individual color selections, and tweak fonts.
• adjust metadata for search engines in the Promote section.

Check it out at http://flavors.me/!!

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Vancouver, Canada (PRWEB) June 1, 2010 — HEXONET (www.hexonet.net) announced today the availability of more backorderable TLDs (Top-Level-Domains), including .ME, to its growing and expansive list of domains to be backordered (snapping up high-value domain names as they expire). The additional TLDs, especially .ME, elevates HEXONET’s Backordering Service into a class of its own. Arguably, this new addition makes HEXONET’s service the most comprehensive backordering service industrywide.

According to Robert Birkner, Chief Startegy Officer of HEXONET, “The appeal of .ME is its ability to create personalized or call-to-action domain names ever so naturally. Also, as social media continues to grow and the Web becomes more personal, .ME domains will, undoubtedly, be more important and be more valuable.”

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Although there is still a some difference between sales value of gTLDs and ccTLDs it seems that it is smaller than ever. This might be due to the fact that many ccTLDs have been recognized as marketable and appealing not only to the local but also worldwide Internet community. Take a look at the recent auction sales, and you will find .ME among them!

“Moniker.com and SnapNames.com hit trifectas as each placed a trio of names on the Top 20 Chart. Two of Moniker’s high end sales came from their live auction at this month’s DOMAINfest Ft. Lauderdale conference where they sold #3 Therapists.com for $50,000 and #11 GolfResorts.com for $22,500. SnapNames benefited from some solid sales made in  their recent .me premium domain auction, including #13 Trade.me at $18,501 and #16 Map.me at $14,500.

Sedo had an even bigger .me sale with #5 (tie) Join.me at $45,000…”

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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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