Montenegrin bikers who started the ride around the world approximately month past Mongolia couple of days ago. Bumpy roads and some minor problems with motorcycles they encountered on the way were mitigated by the beautiful landscape and unspoiled nature. However, the greatest challenge of all is yet to come. They are approaching Siberia, probably one of the most frightening obstacles on their way to conquer the world. DotME fans, it is time to wish them good luck once again!

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Another twitter-based application is using a creative dotME domain name. Who. unfollowed.me is a web based twitter app that helps you track your unfollowers, in real time, without waiting for a DM, or email. If you use this site, you should consider following @whounfollowedme on twitter.

The site launched on Sunday, February 21st, and since then http://who.unfollowed.me has gained 141,108 users and has tracked 3,588,066 unfollowers.

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Flavors.ME a growing website building tool, acquired  “Flavours.ME”, dotME with British English spelling of their original domain name. This acquisition is another great example of necessity for a website optimization as well as brand protection, necessary for the ubiquity of your business. More importantly, Flavors.ME promptly responded to their customers’ needs: “People from England, Australia and elsewhere around the globe asked that we spell “flavors” their way, and we listened: Flavours.me is all ours! It’s the first step on the road toward internationalization across the entire site.”

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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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GoDaddy has recently launched Video.ME, a new Video-Sharing Site, with easy privacy controls of users’ content. It addresses privacy issues by adding simplicity and flexibility to the upload process, and also gives users complete control over their content – whether they simply want to store their videos ‘in the cloud,’ invite specific people to watch them or broadcast to the whole world. Main features of the new service include:

1. one channel and five personal albums for each user

2. password protect

3.storage limit of 500MB

Although the widespread use of YouTube poses the question of whether any other site could penetrate video-sharing market, Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons answers with confidence “YouTube has been the place for mass-consumption videos, but for sharing more personal items, it’s way too complicated. That’s why we created Video.ME – an easy, ad-free place to present videos any way you choose.”

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Om Malik is a web and technology writer, the founder of Giga Omni Media, Inc. and the editor in chief  of technology blog GigaOm. He is also a host on a former Revision3  weekly web-business centric podcast, The GigaOm Show.

However, Omis.ME, his personal blog on dotMe domain, is a quite different thing – it provides entrepreneurship tips and deals with the everyday life with some very clever insights into pop culture and fashion. “Why the slim cut shirt trend is stupid”? Visit Omis.ME and find out.

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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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Three passionate bikers from Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, yesterday embarked  on a journey around the globe. Before exploring the world, they made sure to exploretheworldof.me first, and create their own blog theridearound2010.me, which will be regularly updated from Montenegro, Serbia, Romania, Moldavia, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Canada, USA, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Have a nice trip guys! (And see you in four months).

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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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