The title says it all. Win a free .me domain. Unfortunately the contest is not being offered by us here at PLUM.me.
It is actually being offered at another site that I was recently informed about this morning. The rules are simple. You simply suggest a domain.me for example (youhate.me f*ck.me. If they like what you submitted you may be eligible to win a free .me domain name.
Sounds like a pretty good deal right? Well I was doing some thinking while I was at my real job today and came to the conclusion that this actually is a bogus idea.
Why you might ask?
Simple. You submit your wonderful domain.me idea.. they like it then check to see if the name is available. If its available they register it with hopes of turning a profit off of the name. Obviously I dont know this for sure and it is just a theory of mine but it definitely seems like a logical theory.
Lets say they receive X amount of submissions from people and they register lets say 10% of them. They can either get back what they payed for the domains or they can easily turn a profit off of them.
And what do you get?
Well if your lucky you will get a free domain. If your not so lucky.. you get nothing except for a letter saying thanks sucker. Your going to make us rich.
I dont want to post the address to the site because I dont want to assist them in receiving .me ideas. Then again I do want to post the address and inform people of the site and what they may possibly be doing.
So what im going to do is leave out the address as of right now. If I get enough feedback from people wanting to know the address then I will edit this post and have it displayed.
I look forward to hearing from you.
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Hi Brian,
I wanted to drop you a quick note regarding this competition.
Our site is the one that runs it, and I wanted to contact you to address any confusion that you had about our intentions.
We have absolutely no intention of scamming anyone through this. It is simply a bit of fun for both ourselves and our visitors.
I would ask you to go through the process of submitting an entry through the site. You can pick some very obscure domain name suggestion that you can check on another whois search to see if it is available. Once you submit the suggestion through the form on our site you will be brought to another page where we will give you the option to search for the availability of the suggested domain name. With this in mind, you can see that we are offering the visitor the opportunity to register their chosen domain name. We have no intention on registering any suggestions, and if the visitor wishes to register this domain name on our site, or any other domain registrants site they can.
I hope you will test the site to clarify any confusion that you may have had regarding our competition format.
We have always attempted to provide a high level of service to all of our customers, and never attempt to conduct our business in any unethical way.
Kind Regards,
Barry
Glad to hear from you Barry. Thanks for clearing that up.