“Top Food Takeout App” in China Operates on a .ME

Did you know the “top food takeout app” in China operates on a .ME domain name? According to Seeking Alpha, the company, Ele.me, raised money in May of last year at a valuation of “between $5.5 billion to $6 billion.” The company made news today when it was announced that Alibaba bought out Baidu and other investors that own the company. Crunchbase shows that the company raised over $3 billion in funding.

As you are likely aware by now, the .ME domain name extension is the ccTLD for the country of Montenegro. Interestingly, it does not look like Ele.me owns the typo Eleme.com domain name. It does own the eleme.cn ccTLD for the Chinese market, but surprisingly, the domain name does not seem to resolve. It looks like someone else owns ele.cn, although the company’s branding always seems to include the domain name extension in it.

I would have to assume this is one of the most trafficked .ME domain names.

I thought this was an interesting tidbit to share.

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

10 COMMENTS

  1. This is very interesting to know. Thanks.

    It’s also interesting to note that this multi-billion dollar growth and acquisition was not impeded by the absence of a dot-com: And that’s particularly noteworthy because we’re constantly reminded by those brokers who specialize in the China market that dot-com and dot-cn are the only extensions that are prized (and used) by important Chinese companies.

    I guess this was an aberration…

  2. Like I said before about some being so special and so unique as to be truly one of a kind. Just like Home.Loans. Interesting coincidence, was thinking of .me for examples of that just within hours ago.

Leave a Reply

Recent Posts

Escrow.com Announces 2023 Master of Domains

1
During the NamesCon conference today, Escrow.com announced its Master of Domains winners. The annual award celebrates "the highest grossing domain name brokers for deals...

How to Buy a Domain Name That is Owned by Someone

1
For a domain investor, buying a domain name is second nature. Investors hand register domain names, purchase domain names via expiry and private auctions,...

My 2023 Domain Industry PMC Jersey

0
For a number of years, I have created a domain industry Pan-Mass Challenge jersey to raise funds for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Many domain industry...

Chat.com Profitably Resold for 8 Figures

0
In March of this year, I reported on the sale of Chat.com. The domain name was acquired by HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah for more...

First Look at my 2023 Domain Industry PMC Jersey

1
This August, I will be riding in my 10th Pan-Mass Challenge ride to raise funds for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. I will be riding...