As the country of Montenegro capitalizes on their .me domain country code, business owners should too!

Trademark-holders have until May 20 to register their company and product names under the new .me domain, which is being marketed as a generic top-level domain by the country of Montenegro. Applicants include Apple — which registered apple.me, ipod.me and itunes.me — as well as Microsoft, Skype and Digg.

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I find it hard to believe that companies are just now catching on to what the newest generation of net-life is all about. It’s about me. What I want as a consumer, what I think as an individual and what I feel like participating in. Internet in general has gone from a basic form of data delivery, to a mass information storage and retrieval system, to its’ current incarnation of user controlled communication in just a few decades. So it’s no surprise that somewhere in Montenegro someone figured out how to make millions off this growing internet atmosphere of personalization.

I expect that the recent publicity push will drive millions of businesses and individual users to register their .me addresses. I expect to see everything from do.me to doyoulove.me pop up over the next few months. I think a side-trend of this registration rush will be the amount of dirty words that get registered as a domain name for the sake of the adult industry.

Find out if your .me domain is still available at www.GoDaddy.com