Creating a Personal Presence Online is as Easy as 1, 2, .ME

PODGORICA, Montenegro--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The largest online auction of personal names ever held begins next week. More than 300 personal names and surnames with a .ME extension will be available starting April 5 through NameJet. Imagine ? a person named John owning the domain John.Me, Marie based at Marie.Me, or Bill creating his online presence at William.Me. The Web doesn?t get any more personal than this!

?This auction will give people a rare chance to capture a domain that naturally provides them a truly personal online home.?

?It?s extremely rare to have the opportunity to purchase your very own first or last name as your domain,? notes Predrag Lesic, Executive Director of the .ME Registry. ?Even more exciting is the chance to attach your name to dot-ME, the most powerful personal domain available on the Internet.?

Adds Lesic, ?This auction will give people a rare chance to capture a domain that naturally provides them a truly personal online home.?

Online service providers like Flavors.Me know how valuable that is. Flavors.Me allows anyone to create an elegant Web site using personal content from around the Internet. ?After joining dozens of social sites, as most of us do, your online identity is spread all over the Web,? notes Jonathan Marcus, Chief Executive Officer of HiiDef Inc., who founded Flavors.Me. ?Our site allows you to create a home for your virtual identity, where everyone you know can come to visit everything you care about online.?

A .ME domain -- with your name attached -- is also an ideal place to build your personal presence online. April?s auction gives you the rare opportunity to snatch it up. Find out if your first or last name is available and view the entire list of 300 personal names up for grabs at PersonalNames.Me.

For examples of other clever uses of .ME, visit ExploreTheWorldOf.Me.

To learn more about the .ME Registry, developing a .ME business idea through non-auction allocation of a .ME domain, or to find out how to register a .ME domain, go to www.Domain.Me.

About the .ME Registry:

.ME Registry (the d.b.a. of doMEn, d.o.o.) was chosen by the government of Montenegro to operate the new .ME domain name extension. .ME Registry partners include ME-net, GoDaddy.com and Afilias Limited. Me-Net is located in Montenegro and its principals have been leaders in the ICT sector in Montenegro, including the privatization of its largest ISP. GoDaddy.com is located in the USA and is the world?s largest domain name registrar and the largest hostname provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. Afilias Limited is headquartered in Ireland and is a leading registry services provider, supporting more than 15 million domains worldwide.