.ME Domains

[JohnH]

Anyone own any .me domains? I bought a few only to discover that they are automatically geo-targeted to the country of Montenegro by Google.

So this means if you planned on buying a sweet exact match domain and getting it to rank in the .com easily you are SOL.

Kinda lame considering those domains are mainly owned by people who don't live in montenegro and want to have a global presence.

[NickM]

Montenegro? I thought the point of these were essentially for people to buy their own names. Lol. I didn't realize that this was a country-specific tld.

[MJ]

I bought a few too, was one of the biggest scams in domaining history if you ask me.

Notice I've never run into a single .me in the serps, for anything.

[TheGooner]

You didn't realise where .me represented? FFS?

Next you'll be saying that you didn't realise that the .tv domains actually belong to the pacific island of Tuvalu ??!


you didn't really think there was a tv-land did you?

[MJ]

so where the F is .fm located then?

[JohnH]

When you buy a .tv domain at godaddy it clearly states that its the official domain extension for tuvalu.

Yea the .me thing was the most over hyped scam i have seen in a while, people paying absurd amount of money for domains that will never get a drop of traffic from google.

On the other hand, you can geotarget your .tv domains to countries other than tuvalu (via google webmaster tools). Where as the .me the domain is already set on montenegro and you can't change it.

The .tv is the only ccTLD that this is possible with.

[MJ]

This is the first I've heard of that for what it's worth John, makes it suck even more imo as I thought they were just performing poorly like the .info/.biz/.us other extensions.

Seriously though look at what some of the .me domains went for in auction and you'll see what I mean by scam.

Can you imagine being the guy who paid 7 figures for some .me extension like hit.me or whatever everyone was imagining?

[suffolkpoker]

i bought a few .me and i felt robbed afterwards...

[GregW]

I was also under the impression that a .me was kinda like a universal/non-specific tld like .org or .biz. Luckily I never got around to buying any of them.

so where the F is .fm located then?

Federal states of Micronesia... obviously!

[Knup]

Wow... I did not realize this. That sucks!!! I did buy a handful of .me domains but not via auction. I guess it was a waste of money. Thanks for the update though.