.Me is still continuing to receive Interest amongst the domainers.
As Justin mentioned at DNForum, the success rate of these new upcoming extensions (with very minimal exceptions like of .info), has been very low and there is nothing positive to indicate otherwise for this extension.
The registries are having a fun time making hay with every new extension which comes up. Now I agree that some names like Consolidate.me OR Resell.me or Blog.me or Monetize.me might be highly brandable, but they alone cannot make a whole new extension successful. For any extension to be successful, I believe it should point to a particular niche; or might be usable in a particular niche. Info rose as it clearly indicated the sites to be “Information” oriented, which is what the web is all about.
.Me has been marketed as the “New Personal” extension for all to use, be it for blogs, personal / family websites or resume sites. In the domaining world, whatever cannot earn money for some business or niche is useless, and any personal webname would never quite do it.
Well, speculation does run a major part of the domaining world, but calling this speculation would be highly inaccurate; I woud believe this is a gamble, no doubt. With no projections, marketing, and trends to follow, .me is riding on fallacy.
Though some domainers are willing to gamble on these new entrants would believe this niche would make it big for them; I would highly doubt it. And these arent even $.99 regges to gamble on, they take quite a big bite out of low budget investments if your going after a few of them.
The only hope is creating websites with the top generics and selling them before the hype dies down. I’m down to only one registration which I kept, and am struggling with hard logic to keep it, and failing at that.
.ME would resell well for the absolute generic names, which are around .01% of all registered; PERIOD.
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