The government of Montenegro has just inked a deal with a couple of major registrars to allow them to offer .me domains for sale. A tender was introduced in late December, inviting all interested registrars to offer their proposals for becoming the .me registrars, and the .me advisory board have accepted GoDaddy and Allias as future partners. GoDaddy’s involvement with the new TLD was announced as a possibility in mid-January. They feel these two companies, both having a long-lasting reputation for being reliable in the domain business, will give consumers a good experience. GoDaddy certainly has a long record of successful domain selling and management, while Allias has been known for reliable infrastructure. According to the deal, the registrar is to deposit an initial 5 million euros withing 30 days from deal announcement, and banker guarantees towards a total of 8.5 million euros within 45 days, as revenue for the duration of the deal.

The new .me domain is very interesting from many aspects, but most of all for the various nice combination of domain names that can go with the TLD (kiss.me, find.me, get.me, call.me, see.me, meet.me, rate.me - just to give a few examples). Anyway, .me domains will be available for purchase in the latter part of 2008, so get warmed up. I am guessing there will be a long waiting line.

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