.me Domain is On Sale, But Will GoDaddy Swipe the Good Ones?
I sure hope not. I’m not-so-patiently waiting to process my order and have been for about 30 minutes now. Have I reason to worry? Well, it was not so long ago that a VP at GoDaddy was caught bidding against prospective buyers of highly-desired domain names on GoDaddy’s own auction site. Don’t let me down again, GoDaddy.
UPDATE: Order finally went through via Safari browser. I’ll be a little late to work though, so excuse.me, sue.me, and dew.me cause it’s all about me.meme.me
UPDATE 2: An hour later I found out that all six of my “registrations” FAILED.
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I pre registered for a domain thats a waste of time if i am going to be out bid now only the rich can get a one word domain. It should be first come first serve like before.There were some menu domains I was not even allowed to pre register for so how is it that now everything is up for bid?
what is benefit of using .me domain name
very very interesting & useful information about the Domain name ..i registered my domain name in the site http://www.tucktail.com/
Now .us domain is on sale, you can buy great domain now.
Guys congrats! .me Hits 200,000 Registered Domains,. This makes .ME the fastest growing new ccTLD launch on record!
Is there any value in a .me domain or is just a way for the registrars to make some extra cash from time to time?? Not to mention are more expensive than the other TLD smth is not right here..
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Sounds like trouble....
A few friends tolled me the same thing happened to them as well.
But I don't think it's a scam. They just have serious problems with their infrastracture. So let's see who will get the domains now....
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Go daddy is scamming loyal customers.
I pre registered for a domain thats a waste of time if i am going to be out bid now only the rich can get a one word domain. It should be first come first serve like before.There were some menu domains I was not even allowed to pre register for so how is it that now everything is up for bid?
what is benefit of using .me domain name
very very interesting & useful information about the Domain name ..i registered my domain name in the site http://www.tucktail.com/
Now .us domain is on sale, you can buy great domain now.
Guys congrats! .me Hits 200,000 Registered Domains,.
This makes .ME the fastest growing new ccTLD launch on record!
Is there any value in a .me domain or is just a way for the registrars to make some extra cash from time to time?? Not to mention are more expensive than the other TLD
smth is not right here..
Seesmic video reply from Disqus.
Seesmic video reply from Disqus.
Sounds like trouble....
A few friends tolled me the same thing happened to them as well.
But I don't think it's a scam. They just have serious problems with their infrastracture. So let's see who will get the domains now....