GoDaddy’s Domain Registration Totally Screws .me

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/17/godaddys-domain-registration-totally-screws-me/

by noodle • 18 years ago

27 15 18 years ago

boredguy8• 18 years ago

And here I thought semaphores were well understood.

Hexstream2• 18 years 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!

Hexstream2• 18 years ago

"conned out of" was perhaps too extreme an expression, I should have researched this before rushing to register those domains.

mariorz• 18 years ago

what are you talking about man? how does that matter at all?

alex_c• 18 years ago

I don't really see a difference. No one seems to mind that ".tv" stands for Tuvalu and not Television.

JulianMontez2• 18 years ago

I 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• 18 years ago

I 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.

attack2• 18 years ago

I'll bet you my foot that it wasn't someone who used godaddy...

parenthesis• 18 years ago

I had no problem .me-ing at dynadot.

JulianMontez2• 18 years ago

Me too, I've moved to Dynadot for my domain needs after this incident...

attack2• 18 years ago

Me 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• 18 years ago

Yes, it seems this was 100% a GoDaddy problem.

chrisconley• 18 years ago

i thought that it must be too good to be true when i snagged you.me (or so i thought-hehe)

mannylee1• 18 years ago

Dynadot was great for me too.

tlrobinson• 18 years ago

Anyone get any good .me's? All the ones I could think of were taken :-/

GoDaddy’s Domain Registration Totally Screws .me

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