.me ccTLD tender closed with 3 major consortiums on short list
I recently blogged about the .me ccTLD that has been assigned to the newly independent Montenegro. The Montenegro registry nic.me recently issued a tender to find the registrar that will manage .me registrations.
According to a comment on my previous post that has recently been made by a person from blogovanje.com ( a blog owned by a Montenegran ), the registry has drawn 3 candidates to be considered for the tender assignment:
DemandMedia/eNom/ Neustar/MeNom
Afilias/GoDaddy/MeNet
and Verisign Inc/Dotster Inc.
MeNom and MeNet are thought to be local partners of big players.
The tender commission will rate each of the offers after which the government .me council will select the best offer.
The way things are going we can expect .me registrations to happen in the year 2008.
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4 Responses to “.me ccTLD tender closed with 3 major consortiums on short list”
December 21st, 2007 at 2:51 pm
What do you think the potential of .me domains will be? Certainly domains like ti.me and li.me, etc. will be cool but does a TLD like this have any future investment potential?
I own some great .cc and .ws domains but I’m thinking it will probably be 3-5 years before those become somewhat valuable.
I’d be interested to know your thoughts on the potential of this TLD as I’m always looking for good long term investments.
December 21st, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Well,
IMHO every TLD can be valuable if it’s marketed right. .mobi has recently increased in value tremendously ( regardless of what some people lead us to believe ) and this was due to the main-stream media coverage it has received.
It might take a while for the .me to pick up value in general.
That said, clever domainers will purchase names like pay.me, give.me, play.me etc and name hacks like you mentioned ti.me, mi.me etc… and these names will be worth a fortune from the word go.
It depends on what you buy I reckon.
John
December 23rd, 2007 at 1:22 pm
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January 18th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
[…] I previously blogged about the domain hacks that .me, the ccTld that was recently assigned to Montenegro by IANA had the potential for here. I went on to report about the public tender issued by the government of Montenegro and the subsequent narrowing of potential candidates. […]