thats because registering toyota domains are domain squatting. Use a trademark domain name and risk a HUGE lawsuit.
Domain squatters do not pay US$90,000 for a domain. It will be developed. Toyota make cars.. Car dealers sell cars. As long as the owner of toyota.me does not claim to be the owner of Toyota, or use toyota.me to discredit Toyota, then Toyota will not care. Taking the domain of them would be as silly as making all Toyota car dealers remove the Toyota signs from the front of there car yards. Cheers James
well .me might be slightly better than .info under some circumstances, but you could say the same about .info for certain sites. I still stand by what I say, that 99% of the .me people are registering are basically worthless.
domain squatting is domain squatting. What you pay has nothing to do with if its right or not. It just means you will be at a loss of 90,000 if you have to give up the domain. Your analogy of Toyota Dealers is silly since they are authorized sellers of toyota. So unless the registrant is a toyota dealer, he could be in trouble possibly.
Yes you are right.. What I was was meant to say was do not usually pay 90,000... Maybe the owner of the domain name is a general used car dealer! (he/she also owns Mitsubishi.me & Skoda.me) Not sure, but the last time I advertised and sold a Toyota, I did not need to be authorized. Who knows, all I was really trying to say is that is that people that spend that sort of money (on anything, not just domains) usually take some sort of legal advice before the purchase. Otherwise they don't stay in business long enough to have that sort of money to invest in the first place. But this is just an assumption by me and I may be completely wrong. Cheers James
I am sure .Me will be a huge succes, .Me means the same in Spanish and Italien as in English. Plus .Me has no registration rules everybody can registrate them. If you look at .US , Ca, .EU they all have registration rules and will therefor never be a international good domain name. Plus .Me has had world record registration sales. and how many 2 letter domain extensions are out there and same time means somethink like .Me do??: Date.Me, Insure.me, Youand.Me and Kiss.Me, visit.Me, Lookat.me, rate.me and so on. Plus VERY easy to remember and brand. Just think if you had Date.Me how easy it is to remember. dot .Me will just get more and more popular
Well that was my point there are a few good ones like date.me or insure.me You could say the same thing about Acne.info or medicine.info so whats your point? Other than a few catchy one or 2 word ones, most are worthless because just like .info they are seen as a cheap alternative for those who can't afford to buy the existing .com
Sorry to say this... But, an example, PleaseReview.Me it's a litle bit different from PleaseReview.Com!!! Don't you think so? No? Ok... PleaseReview.Com it's more brandable i know!!! But i didn't had money enought to buy the dot com!
.info domain names are seen as worthless because of the amount of people who register them and strictly use them for spammy websites. The .me tld offers so many different variables that it will be hard to see it fail. Like mauro said.. PleaseReview.me or PleaseReview.com BlogVertise.me or BlogVertise.com .me will set the bar in its own world.
.info is worthless because its seen as a cheap extension not because of spam because most internet users aren't aware of the link between spam common with .info. Average searcher sees it as just see a unusual TLD extension. .me isn't really any better than .biz, .info, .pro etc. With domains a good one should be .com .net .org I think.
Exactly. The reason so many people picked up .info domains and used them for spammy websites is because they have always been so cheap. In addition to the fact that the .me extension is better in itself - brandability etc - the price of around $40 for 2 years will also ensure that far less people pick up loads of them and use them for spammy websites, so its reputation should be much safer.
I think when the public become aware and have accepted .me as a domain extension, there will be no stopping it. (pardon the pun) IMHO .Me sounds far better than .biz, .info, .pro .net and .org already. In fact .Me sounded better (catchier) than .biz, .info, .pro .net and .org the moment it was announced and in a lot of cases, better (catchier) than (dare I say it) dot com. The only real reason .com is the preferred extension is because it is has been around the longest and has become the most recognized. Recognition is and has been the hardest thing for other domain extensions to overcome, there are also a lot of people out there that probably don't know or don't care that there are other extensions, they just type there search term in to google.com and hit search, go to the first site in the list and don't even look at the extension in the address bar. The only way to overcome the dominance that dot com has, is to make people aware that others exist!, to do that effectively you must have a catchy brand able extension. (In some ways this has already begun) As a stand alone extension, (without the recognition) .biz, .info, .net and .org are no catchier than .com is, so they were never going to compete with the aged and recognized dot com. But I think the general population is starting to become a lot more aware of other extensions, especially after popular sites appeared with .us tacked on the end. The release of the others like .tv, although it did not take off and is rather limited, it seemed to be accepted a lot quicker (to me at least). I think these extensions have sort of, broken the ice so to speak, got people a little bit more aware that.. dot com is not the only address on the internet. Enter the extension .Me The catchiest, most personal, and most brand able domain extension ever to be release. How could it fail? The longer it is out there, the more .Me addresses there are and the more domain names branded as .Me are accessed by the "general public" the more this extension will shine. Those who hummed and arrred will kick themselves. Those who jumped in and held on, will be laughing all the way to the bank. (and trying not to laugh at them strange people kicking themselves) IMHO Cheers James
I agree with a lot of you! Here's what I think: Soon, almost any TLD will be available, that's a fact. It's gonna be expensive but a LOT of new extensions will be created: .sex, .web, .buy, etc. What will append then is that people will become used to type a lot of different extensions to reach websites they want to visit. Within a couple of years, .com will loose its "king" tag because it's gonna be surrounded by a lot of other extensions used by BIG businesses: web.ebay, web.amazon, wine.buy, ... When this will appen, the only thing a company will want for its doman name is something catchy, something nice, that is easy to remember. And guess what? .me TLD is one of the catchiest extension a domain name can have, even considering all other words are available! Let's pretend we live 10 years in the future, when any extension will be available. What would be a better name for an insurance related website than insure.me? insurance.buy? buy.insurance? insure.you? best.insurance? Those are all good names. But I still think insure.me is the best one. You can't find something catchier! The same apply to a lot of .me domain names... I like this extension!
seems like there are two camps with little middle ground. you either love .ME or hate it like an ugly step child. i personally think it has lots of potential for something that makes sense for various tenses of verbs and adjectives. for many nouns and compound words "hurricane.me" or "lampshades.me" then i'd pass. actually i'd go for hurricane if it were still available.
I totally agree. I only have one "seo ready" .me name, containing paying keywords.. My 26 others are verbs or something that matches well with the "me" at the end!