reply to post by Forevever
OKAY IM BACK...
And after all of more research that I have been able to do and reading all 40+ more pages, I came across something that might interest you all in our
quest to figure this thing out...
1.) Since and only the fact that one of the two sites that are the ORIGINAL sites .INFO and .ME are the forumspring."ME"
2.) I DONT THINK ANYONE HAS NOTICED OR MENTIONED WHERE THIS SITE/DOMAIN COMES FROM...
www.domain.me...
COULD THIS ALL BE ABOUT A COPYRIGHT AND OR COPY "FIGHT" OVER DOMAIN NAMES AND THE HINT THE GROUP GIVES IS RIGHT THERE IN THE DOMAIN NAME ???
From Wikipedia>>>>
en.wikipedia.org...
Sunrise, land rush, and open registration periods
On 6 May 2008 the .me registry opened the Sunrise Period for all eligible trademark holders anywhere in the world. FIVE DOMAIN NAMES had multiple
applications and were sold through the auctions. During the .me land rush auction period, more than US$2 000 000 was generated with names like
insure.me and sync.me going to the highest bidder.
On 16 July 2008 registration was made available for all .me domains at various registrars.
Throughout June and July 2008 multiple Land rush applications were received, which resulted in more than 2500 land rush auctions that were held during
July and August 2008 after Go Live was opened on 17 July 2008.
At the beginning of August 2008 100,000 .me domain names were registered. Sources say part of the worldwide appeal for the .me domain extension is
the marketing aspect.
In 2008 in terms of the number of web pages indexed by Google among all TLDs, .me sites have enjoyed the fastest growth with more than 50% a month.
In the same year, .me topped its potential rivals .mobi and .asia in Alexa Internet top one million websites with 341 .me sites versus 233 .mobi sites
and 86 .asia sites. Extra potential of .me is revealed considering the fact that .mobi was launched two years before .me and .asia four months before
.me.
By the middle of February 2009 200,000 .me domain names were registered.
On 15 May 2009 number of registered .me domain names rose to 250,000.
In less than a year .me became more popular than .asia, .jobs, .coop, .aero, .int, .mil, .museum, .name, .pro, .tel, .travel, and other 200 country
code top-level domains.
By 2010, over 320,000 .me domains had been purchased, making it the fastest-selling top-level domain in history.
Known hacks
Most .me domain names were purchased as domain hacks in English, and some in Dutch. .me has seen its greatest interest among English speaking
countries including the United States (71%), the United Kingdom (6%), Canada (4%), and Australia (2%).
One of the most expensive domain sold during the Land Rush period was insure.me that went for $68,005. Shortly, it was followed by date.me, which was
sold on the premium auction for $70,000, love.me for $32,500, and hug.me for $20,000[citation needed].
In Dutch and Spanish, only verb combinations were popular, as they made grammatical sense (as in English). E.g., reserveer.me (Dutch) or reserva.me
(Spanish), which can be translated as book.me, and repareer.me (Dutch), repair.me. Most of the Dutch domains were sold outside the auction during the
Go Live phase.
.me domains are also used by some companies and individuals as an acronym for "Middle East," and the abbreviation for the U.S. State of Maine.
.me is used for shortening picture names on the website deviantART, where the URL is fav.me
WordPress uses a .me domain, wp.me, as an URL shortener. This, along with Facebook's fb.me and Yahoo!'s me.me are the only two-letter .me domains, for
which an exception was granted by doMEn.
.me can also be used as a domain hack in all South Slavic languages because me is the accusative case of the first-person singular personal pronoun
ja.
.me was used by the Canadian Conservative Party for the website ignatieff.me, a site attacking Michael Ignatieff, the leader of the opposition Liberal
Party.
.me is being used for the 2010 CGI film Despicable Me, where the website for the film is despicable.me
.me is used for online realtime strateg.yga.me
Known Trademark disputes as of YET...
In 2008 three trademark cases were filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. All three domain names, namely: creditmutuel.me, Porsche.me,
and exxonmobil.me were transferred to the complainants.
edit on 21-7-2011 by Kamesan because: (no reason given)