Go Daddy Failed .Me
Writing by Kate Dickman on Thursday, 17 of July , 2008 at 2:44 pm
We heard the news! Today GoDaddy.com opened the doors for people to register .Me domains. How exciting! We happily proceeded to the site in order to see which domains were still available. It was quite fun to type in Poke.Me, Shoot.Me, Punch.Me, Pinch.Me and any other “creative” domain we could think of. Many were taken but some were not. The site was slow but we knew it was because people were flooding it looking for their piece of the .Me pie.
It was exciting to see that we registered domains like Consult.Me, YouAnd.Me, Hug.Me, Why.Me, Quote.Me. etc. We paid in full and were ready to go! We happily boasted to our colleagues that we obtained these domains and were as giddy as a school girl.
Our dreams were then crushed…sadness filled us….frowns then were plastered on our faces. GoDaddy.com officially failed. Not only did they accept our money, they told us these domains were good to go. About an hour after purchasing them… the dreaded emails entered our inboxes. There was an error. What kind of error? Well, they were already registered.
*Sigh*
According to Twitter - our friends are quite disappointed too. We haven’t found one person who has gotten a domain they desired…. seems GoDaddy has some serious problems to fix and money to return.
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Comment by No Name
Made Thursday, 17 of July , 2008 at 3:39 pm
I lost out inside.me earlier today during this whole mess. I realize with this goldrush type situation, first day of launch for the TLD, etc., it may be a bit overwhelming on their servers but come on… GoDaddy has really mucked this up
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Made Thursday, 17 of July , 2008 at 4:09 pm
[...] of people have been experiencing problems with the .me domain name [...]
Comment by namecritic
Made Friday, 18 of July , 2008 at 3:34 am
Well, all resgistrars were allowing dot me registrations at the same time. You could get them at enom.com and other registrars. So someone can be typing it in at the very same time or seconds before you somewhere else.
Also, many of the best domain names will be auctioned off later so while they may have shown available at some point, they aren’t letting things like seo.me go without making some extra bucks off of it.
That is not the way registries are supposed to handle things. It’s supposed to be first come, first served, but greed takes over and ICANN allows it.
There are a lot of new tlds coming soon and ICANN is ready to allow their greed and the greed of a few companies screw everyone around then too. Something to get used to as long as ICANN is allowed to use anti-comptetitive business practices and they are allowed to hinder free enterprise.
Frontrunning makes registries money too and thats why ICANN has done nothing substantial to stop it.
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