That Smith

If you followed my twitter updates yesterday, you would know I too was one of the victims of the GoDaddy .me failure.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with what happened, a while back GoDaddy reached an agreement with Montenegro (country) which allowed them to sell Montenegro’s domain ending to anyone. .ME’s went on sale yesterday at 10am exclusively through GoDaddy, and myself and thousands of others rushed to get the good ones.

According to GoDaddy, I successfully registered (and paid hundreds of dollars for) several awesome domains such as:

RESU.ME
SPONSOR.ME
AWESO.ME
TXT.ME
INCO.ME
INBOX.ME
PROFILE.ME

The only problem is so did hundreds of others. Try searching Google for the names to see what I mean. In short, their systems became so overloaded they had no way of telling who the rightful owner was, so they ended up putting all the good ones in auctions instead.

I did manage to pick up and keep at least one really good name though – NOSPAM.me. I picked this one because I knew there were already thousands of people registering on sites using nospam.me as a fake address to protect them from spam. Believe me though, there is nothing fake about these addresses. In fact, because of it I now have access to many, many accounts across the interweb.

I will be turning this domain into a new project in the coming weeks, as well as publicizing a few others Laura and I have been working on. We are dropping two of our domains in September though. More on that later. For now, go see the new Kaden pictures on BEER dad.