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TMZ Video: MakeItRain.TV

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TMZ shared an article and accompanying video (embedded) about rapper and hip hop producer Daz Dillinger who “made it rain” for some homeless people in Venice Beach, California. For those who don’t know, “make it rain” is a phrase that means tossing dollar bills in the air where they float to the ground like rain.

According to TMZ, “The video was shot for a charity called MakeItRain.TV — founded by radio host Tattoo from 93.5 KDAY.”

Some more exposure for .TV domain names.

Buyer Looking for Keyword .TV Domain Names

I have not invested in .TV domain names, but I understand the space is pretty active. I know of someone looking to acquire one or two very good keyword .TV domain names (under $10,000). If you are looking to sell a .TV domain name or two, please post in the comment section with price.

Requirements are as follows (Must meet ALL of them):

  • One or two keywords
  • Exact match local search volume 10,000+
  • Must make sense as a .TV, like Comedy.TV or Cooking.TV, but not IceCream.TV
  • .TV Names only
  • No Hyphens or numbers
  • Price is a must and must be under $10,000

Vanity TLDs in Google

I thought it would be interesting to see how many websites Google has indexed for a variety of “vanity” tlds. Although some of the tlds I searched include ccTLDs, I figure much of the usage is by people who are not using them for geotargeted local websites.

To get the results below, I did a Google search for “site:.tld” and the numbers are reported. Clearly there are far more results than domain names registered, so it’s likely that many of the results are for subdomains. It’s not scientific by any stretch, but it’s interesting to compare the number of indexed sites in Google.

  • .ME –  633,000,000 results
  • .TV –  588,000,000 results
  • .CO –  267,000,000 results
  • .MOBI –  245,000,000 results
  • .WS –  149,000,000 results
  • .NAME –  36,100,000 results
  • .TRAVEL –  22,800,000 results
  • .LY –  9,710,000 results
  • .XXX –  5,410,000 results

Sedo .ME Auction Results

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The .ME Registry held a premium keyword domain auction at Sedo last week, and I have the results of the auction listed below. It was impressive to see so many auctions with bids. What do you think about the results?

Domain name Price Currency
hotel.me 25000 USD
life.me 17450 USD
cams.me 10000 USD
usa.me 9200 USD
gift.me 9000 USD
movies.me 8800 USD
who.me 8277 USD
train.me 8200 USD
blackjack.me 7400 USD
file.me 7301 USD
creditcard.me 7200 USD
dates.me 7100 USD
mortgage.me 7100 USD
doctor.me 7100 USD
wine.me 7100 USD
cruise.me 7076 USD
macau.me 7000 USD
lawyer.me 6600 USD
stocks.me 6399 USD
newyork.me 6200 USD
pet.me 6100 USD
college.me 6055 USD
yoga.me 5650 USD
team.me 5300 USD
coffee.me 5100 USD
toys.me 5050 USD
vancouver.me 4900 USD
journal.me 4800 USD
source.me 4800 USD
center.me 4700 USD
411.me 4544 USD
diabetes.me 4100 USD
technology.me 4000 USD
mall.me 3800 USD
adventure.me 3675 USD
school.me 3600 USD
shoe.me 3300 USD
llc.me 3111 USD
friends.me 2750 USD
venture.me 2550 USD
cricket.me 2550 USD
asia.me 2401 USD
science.me 2350 USD
files.me 2250 USD
earth.me 2151 USD
europe.me 2150 USD
webhosting.me 2100 USD
attorney.me 2050 USD
airlines.me 2000 USD
seattle.me 2000 USD
software.me 1850 USD
bag.me 1451 USD
tickets.me 1250 USD
hongkong.me 1200 USD
germany.me 1150 USD
copyright.me 1100 USD
wedding.me 1050 USD
cameras.me 1050 USD
vacation.me 1049 USD
television.me 999 USD
unitedstates.me 999 USD
fish.me 999 USD
perth.me 999 USD
bikinis.me 999 USD
lyrics.me 999 USD
secret.me 999 USD
club.me 999 USD
traffic.me 999 USD
rental.me 999 USD
banking.me 999 USD
streaming.me 999 USD
cancer.me 999 USD
religion.me 999 USD
doctors.me 999 USD
farm.me 999 USD
country.me 999 USD
furniture.me 999 USD
evil.me 999 USD
nutrition.me 700 USD
666.me 680 USD
carrental.me 655 USD
333.me 499 USD
amateur.me 499 USD
succeed.me 499 USD
engineering.me 499 USD
course.me 499 USD
peer.me 499 USD
111.me 499 USD
rating.me 499 USD
entertainment.me 499 USD
quality.me 499 USD
hospital.me 499 USD

Interesting Usage of a ccTLD

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A great crepe restaurant opened in my neighborhood recently, and my wife and I tried it this past weekend. I am sure you don’t care about what I eat or where, so I will get down to the domain details that I found to be most interesting.

On the outside of the crepe wrapping, the restaurant’s url was written: ViveLaCrepe.FR. As far as I can tell, the restaurant (a chain with about 15 locations) does not have a French presence, yet it uses and promotes the ccTLD for France. I did some digging, and it appears that the restaurant has some connections to Mexico, but I didn’t see any relationship France, aside from the delicious crepes they served.

Based on its iPhone App, extensive marketing efforts that include coupons and other social media activity, it seems like this was a savvy move to make the restaurant appear more authentic. The marketing is very good, and the crepes were great. I think this restaurant chain is going to continue to grow. Bravo.

Delicious Now Using D.ME Shortener

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A press release was just published by the .ME Registry announcing that  Delicious.com is now using D.ME as a url shortener. People who use Delicious can also use the D.ME domain name as a shortener to reach internal pages within the Delicious.com website.

I don’t see the company promoting the D.ME domain name within the website yet, although that could be done on internal pages.

Delicious was one of the first and most well-known companies to use a ccTLD for a domain hack. When the company first started, they operated on  del.icio.us, which is the .US ccLTD. The company later acquired Delicious.com, which seemed to be an example of consumer confusion with the original branding.

Here’s today’s press release announcing the news:

Delicious.com, which helps people discover and collect the Web, is now easier to access and use thanks to their new .ME domain name, d.me.

The shortened .ME Web address makes saving links easier and streamlines profile sharing, for example d.me/username. Delicious also added a way for people to save links by emailing the URL to a personalized @d.me address – particularly useful when saving from a mobile device.

“We are thrilled to be working with Delicious to further develop the popular Web service,” said Predrag Lesic, CEO of the .ME Registry. “Having the shortest domain name possible will be an asset to Delicious and its users.”

Delicious lets people save and stack their favorite links to make them accessible from any Web-enabled device. The website was purchased earlier this year by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who then re-built Delicious from the ground up and re-launched it in September.

“We understand the power of an easy and memorable domain name,” said Chad Hurley, CEO of Delicious. “Simplification and personalization are important to our vision for Delicious, and working with dot-ME helped us on both fronts.”

“Since the launch of dot-ME, we have been very passionate about the ways a dot-ME domain name can enhance end user experience,” said Lesic. “It is exciting for us to have this kind of synergy with a company who gets what we are doing and understands how a dot-ME domain name can enhance a great product.”

If you think your project has what it takes to use a .ME premium domain name like d.me, WP.Me (WordPress) or FB.Me (Facebook), contact the .ME Registry’s development program .

For registry news visit www.domain.me/news for other examples and articles about the many clever uses of .ME, visit www.domain.me/blog.

To learn more about the .ME Registry, developing a .ME business idea through non-auction allocation of a .ME domain name, or to find out how to register a .ME domain name, go to www.Domain.Me.

About the .ME Registry:
.ME Registry (the d.b.a. of doMEn, d.o.o.) was chosen by the government of Montenegro to operate the new .ME domain name extension. .ME Registry partners include ME-net, GoDaddy.com and Afilias Limited. Me-Net is a Montenegrin registrar and its founders are leaders of the ICT sector in Montenegro, who among other things participated in a successful privatization of Montenegrin largest ISP. GoDaddy.com is the largest worldwide mass-market hosting provider by annual revenue according to Tier1 Research (Mass-Market Hosting Report-Winter 2011) and is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar. Afilias Limited is headquartered in Ireland and is a leading registry services provider, supporting more than 15 million domains worldwide.

Contacts

.ME Registry
Natasa Djukanovic
382-20-269-740
1-866-941-5341 (fax)
Info@domain.me

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