On July 17, 2008, the .ME Registry officially opened for live, real-time registrations and was met with huge international demand. In the first two days, more than 50,000 new me domain names were registered.Around the globe, the Web's new personalized domain name proves popular.
The .ME Registry officially opened for live, real-time registrations July 17, 2008 and was met with huge international demand. In the first two days, with the first "live" name registered being: yusu.me, more than 50,000 new me domain names were registered. bonk.me was the first live me domain name registered by a Domainmonster.com customer.
The Me registry's executive director, Predrag Lesic, declared:
"While English speaking countries led the way in registration volume, many non-English speaking countries such as Germany, China, and France made a strong showing." He adds: "We believe this bodes well for the international success of .ME as the only domain name that is all about YOU. .ME is a domain space that offers personalized me domain names for your products and services, or your personal presence on the web, including email, in a more generic way than any other."
Managing Director, Mesh Digital Ltd., Matt Mansell, declared: "Our .ME launch plan was executed with perfection by the launch team here at Domainmonster.com". He continues: "Within 90 seconds, we had cleared our queue of thousands of pre-orders and were registering in real time, almost immediately from launch. We achieved a success rate of more than 85% for the pre-orders that our customers had made, securing them valuable me domain names at the crucial time."