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Personalize your domain using .ME

The Web's new personalized domain proves popular around the globe

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: The .ME Registry officially opened for live, real-time registrations and was met with huge international demand. .ME after .com, .biz, .eduis spreading around the world with more than 50,000 new domain names with the first "live" name registered being: yusu.me.

"While English speaking countries led the way in registration volume, many non-English speaking countries such as Germany, China, and France made a strong showing," said Predrag Lesic, the registry's executive director.

He added, "We believe this bodes well for the international success of .ME as the only domain that is all about YOU! .ME is a domain space that offers personalized names for your products and services, or your personal presence on the web, including email, in a more generic way than any other."

The top 10 Countries of .ME Registration by Percentage are: United States with 50 percent, United Kingdom with 11 percent, Germany with 9 percent, Canada with 5 percent, China and France with 3 percent, Netherlands with 2 percent, Australia with 1.5 percent and Israel and Spain with 1 percent each.

"The .ME registry performed extremely well and was able to accommodate the high demand for .ME domain names," said Ram Mohan, Afilias' chief technology officer. "Afilias' registry system performed reliably, recording new create requests in under 21 milliseconds and processing more than 5,000 names in the first minute of open registration. In total, the registry seamlessly accommodated more than 60 registrars vying for .ME names."

The registration process for .ME began in May with the Sunrise period for trademark holders. Land Rush for the general public to register names began in June. In total more than 30,000 domains were applied for in Sunrise and Land Rush periods, and more than 50,000 new registrations were adding in the initial days of live, real-time registration.

A list of more than 85 accredited registrars from 24 different countries offering .ME domains is available at http://www.domain.me/

©CIOL Bureau

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