GoDaddy .me domain debacle
GoDaddy released the .me domain extension to purchase at 11am ET today. So far it has been a big fail for them. I was the proud owner of the.me for a total of 1 hour and 6 minutes before I got an email from GoDaddy letting me know that I am not the owner anymore. According to a Mashable post, on Twitter there are about 7 or 8 owners of aweso.me. It might be a while before this is all figured out, so it will be interesting to see what GoDaddy does instead of here is a refund, sorry. I already had a whole business plan in place.
I am all excited when I get this email:
One hour and six minutes later I am sad because I get this:
Did anyone else run into this? Have you received anymore information from GoDaddy about what is going on?
Filed under: Fail, Technology
8 Responses so far
July 17th, 2008
2:31 pm
This happened to me and welcome.me too. Obviously this post should be named GoDaddy used to be cooler.
-1 GoDaddy
July 17th, 2008
2:49 pm
Dude, I totally had this problem, I had two AWESOME .me domain names. Godaddy let me buy them, then they sent me an email telling me oops they aren’t available.
Thanks for ruining my week Godaddy (FAIL)
July 17th, 2008
3:41 pm
If you really want a .me domain, you should register it during the land-rush period and win the necessary auction in order to own it. Waiting for open registration stage to get one is too late… especially for short proper words…
And what’s the obsession with “aweso.me”?
July 17th, 2008
3:55 pm
Yep - check it out - http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2008/07/17/godaddycom-failed-me/
July 17th, 2008
4:13 pm
hey i bought some too and got those emails, but if you look at the email its sending you its from domainsbyproxy. I dont think whois supports .me extensions yet, and that domainsbyproxy is the whois company when you purchase from godaddy
July 17th, 2008
6:58 pm
I ran into *exactly* the same issue. I also owned the.me for awhile, but when I got the rejection letter I looked into it more closely and discovered that the.me was registered over a month ago during the trademark sunrise period. You’d think that godaddy would know that and not charge you (my card was charged).
July 18th, 2008
12:48 am
I used DomainMonster.com and, I am embarrassed to say, was able to get several really solid names. DomainMonster absolutely knew what was available and what wasn’t. They had it nailed down - and their customers scored big time.
July 19th, 2008
8:00 am
Many thanks go to domainmonster.com - I was able to grab 95% of my picks within minutes of the opening. With the refund for the few that I didn’t get, I got my secondary picks and then even went for more.
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