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GoDaddy’s Domain Registration Totally Screws .me
- boredguy8 18y agoAnd here I thought semaphores were well understood.
- Hexstream 18y ago"Earlier this year GoDaddy won the rights to distribute domains under the extension .me, which belongs to the country of Montenegro." Blast! I thought it meant "me" as in "myself" and that it was meant for personal pages and such... I didn't see Montenegro mentionned anywhere, in fact namecheap says .me is for personal pages... I wondered why the heck I hadn't heard of .me before today, now I know. So .me is officially for Montenegro but is a new de-facto "standard" for personal pages? Or I've been mostly conned out of 80$ (2 domains)? edit: I'll still put those domains to good use eventually. One domain for me, one for my company, one for each of my projects. Perfect!
- Hexstream 18y ago"conned out of" was perhaps too extreme an expression, I should have researched this before rushing to register those domains.
- mariorz 18y agowhat are you talking about man? how does that matter at all?
- alex_c 18y agoI don't really see a difference. No one seems to mind that ".tv" stands for Tuvalu and not Television.
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- JulianMontez 18y agoI tried registering a domain, and wasn't able to when GoDaddy's servers were being hammered. I'd used GoDaddy for years, but I have to say, I've seen the light, they've lost my service. Why is it so hard for companies to take my money when I try to hand it to them? They had to have known that the demand was high for these .me domain names. There's no excuse for them to have prepared for this kind of traffic. Heh, now that I think about it, Apple's iPhone situation is remarkably similar to this one. ;-)
- azharcs 18y agoI had just bought ping.me from godaddy, i got a successfully bought mail too but after 20 min I get a mail telling me, I can't buy it because it is already registered. Then i did a quick twitter search and found 2 other people had also bought ping.me . Wondering who will get that domain.
- attack 18y agoI'll bet you my foot that it wasn't someone who used godaddy...
- parenthesis 18y agoI had no problem .me-ing at dynadot.
- JulianMontez 18y agoMe too, I've moved to Dynadot for my domain needs after this incident...
- attack 18y agoMe too, permanently. What techcrunch doesn't make clear is that this wasn't just some inter-registrar communication problem. Godaddy itself was selling the same domain names over and over and over for hours!
- cdr 18y agoYes, it seems this was 100% a GoDaddy problem.
- chrisconley 18y agoi thought that it must be too good to be true when i snagged you.me (or so i thought-hehe)
- mannylee1 18y agoDynadot was great for me too.
- tlrobinson 18y agoAnyone get any good .me's? All the ones I could think of were taken :-/