.ME Auction Prices – Ridiculous Prices For Some Domains? Toyota.ME at $70,005

Posted on | August 8, 2008 | 4 Comments

Alright… I’d expect some .ME prices to naturally go for a lot (a couple thousand) and other mediocre names to sell for hundreds… but what the heck is going on? Publicity stunt? Take a look at some of these domains being sold and their current auction price tags:

toyota.me 101 20H 43M $70,005
oglasi.me 80 13H 51M $40,014
insure.me 190 14H 21M $40,006
only.me 63 21H 8M $33,405
aweso.me 59 18H 44M $17,189
match.me 89 18H 43M $16,015
hug.me 112 12H 13M $15,516
skoda.me 71 19H 52M $15,006
korea.me 63 23H 38M $15,005
china.me 98 18H 28M $10,505
recruit.me 43 18H 37M $10,155
rank.me 140 18H 43M $10,005

*Auctions have NOT yet ended.

Toyota.ME going for $70,005. I wonder if TOYOTA is the one bidding on this… NO WAY! They can easily just take their domain since it’s a freakin’ trademark! Oglasi.ME turned out to be “Ads.ME” in Serbian, Crotian, and Macedonian. Interesting that someone would pay $40,000+ for a ccTLD. Why not just try to get Oglasi.ccTLD for Serbia, Crotia, or Macedonia? Maybe .me is just that much more brandable? Who knows. Maybe the current owners don’t want to sell? That’s another possibility.

Domain hack: aweso.ME (awesome) is going for $17,000+. Hrmmm. Skoda.ME also jumps out… $15,000… Not sure if Skoda owns their TM (I’m sure they do, but have never really done any searching regarding the company… which is internationally known).

I’m not saying anything negative regarding .ME (I haven’t bought any and don’t really plan on it), but some of these prices are outrageous for the types of domains that are being purchased. It’s good this TLD is getting recognized, but its purpose is to help the country of Montenegro get online with their own identity. Oh well.

Bored? Take a look at the .ME auctions here.

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4 Responses to “.ME Auction Prices – Ridiculous Prices For Some Domains? Toyota.ME at $70,005”

  1. Webmaster
    August 11th, 2008 @ 6:19 am

    Dude, the link to the Toyota’s site is Broken..

    Webmaster’s last blog post..Godaddy Promotional Discount Code and Coupons

  2. Sammy Ashouri
    August 11th, 2008 @ 11:45 am

    Fixed it. It was just a link to toyota.com.

    Ended up selling for like $90,000. Odd if you ask me!

  3. Mike
    August 15th, 2008 @ 4:02 am

    is someone selling his auction seat ?

    if someone wishes to contact me,
    aergis if my account name, at google’s mail, gmail com, as i may not be checking this thread here
    tnx :)

  4. Daniel Sanchez
    September 21st, 2008 @ 4:22 pm

    wow I would paid much more for insure.me
    That domain has endless possibilities in the insurance industry. I’m sorry I missed it :(

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