The sunrise period for the .ME top level domain has started and will end on the 20th of May 2008. A sunrise period is when trademark holders can register their trademarks as domain names in a new top level domain like country code domain .ME.

After the sunrise period closes, domain names requested by multiple trademark-holders will be auctioned between the requesting parties.

Dot ME is the new top level domain for Montenegro which used to be a part of Serbia and Montenegro with .YU as top level domain. The .ME registry is operated by University of Montenegro on behalf of the government.

After the 17th of July the registrations will be open to anyone and not only trademark holders.

If you would like to pre-register your own .ME domain you may do so at eXavier.com for 5 or 10 years at the time.

We have some news from the hosting part of Xavier Media at eXavier.com.

.ws transfers

If you’ve registered a .ws domain, the Web Site domain, at someone else you can as of now transfer it to eXavier.com for as low as $9/year.

Upgraded hosting plans

We’ve upgraded the hosting plans so now you got 10 Gb web space for your files! You also get 300 Gb transfer, 500 email accounts, $20 Google® AdWords® Credit, $25 Microsoft® adCenter Credit and much more for only $3.99/month ($3.40/month if prepaid 36 months). All our hosting plans include Google Webmaster Tools. For a full list of all features, please visit eXavier.com.

Expanded Email for Hosting and WebSite Tonight(R)!

We are just about to start updating Shared Hosting and WebSite Tonight plans with new email storage limits that include more flexibility than ever. All customers, including those with free add-on plans, will have expanded storage limits AND they’ll be able to allot the storage space to the email accounts at their discretion.

The new storage limits will be:
Economy Shared Hosting: 100 email addreses with 100 MB total storage
Deluxe Shared Hosting: 500 email addresses with 500 MB total storage
Premium Shared Hosting: 1000 email addresses with 1 GB total storage

Economy WebSite Tonight: 1 email accounts and 100 MB email storage
Deluxe WebSite Tonight: 200 Email Accounts and 500 MB email storage
Premium WebSite Tonight: 400 Email Accounts and 1 GB email storage

Upgrades should be complete for all users by mid-March.

The Serbian top level domain (TLD) will launch on the 10 of January 2008. The cool thing with this domain is that it’s so easy to create domain hacks.

What actually is a domain hack?
It’s a domain name where both the domain and the top level domain spell out a word together. Some examples are
* del.icio.us - delicious
* mon.itor.us - monitor us
* adv.erti.se - advertise
* bjornb.org - Björn Borg
* cr.yp.to - crypto
* blo.gs - blogs
More examples can be found here.

What’s so cool with .RS?
A lot of words are ending with the letters RS like advertisers, adventurers, webmasters, domainers, bloggers (the list can be as long as you like ).
A list of 4000 words ending with RS can be found here.

To find out more about the .RS TLD, please have a look at nic.rs.

Some time ago I wrote about getting a dot EDU link to your site (see this post) and now it’s time for a follow up (well actually just a short tips).

If you want a link to your site from a page hosted on a dot EDU domain name, then you can get your own blog at The University of Alabama. It’s free for now, but I don’t know if it’s going to stay that way or not

I got a blog for Xavier Media just to test the service and I’m happy with the Wordpress Mu installation they are using. Unfortunately they get a lot of spamblogs signing up and you can’t install any of your own plugins

/Andreas

Now you can expand your global reach, and save over 65%! At eXavier.com you can register your own .CN domain name for $12.99 for the first year, and $19.99 for each subsequent year. This special offer ends 5/30/2007 at midnight!

Visit eXavier.com to register your domain today!