June 16, 2011 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) –
.ME is becoming a domain extension of choice among companies introducing innovative, hip new mobile applications. Internet apps such as Kiip.Me, Blip.Me and Sonar.Me are all perfect examples.
Kiip.Me is the brainchild of 19-year-old Brian Wong, considered “one of the smartest and most innovative entrepreneurs in the world of digital media.”1 Wong is an expert in youth target marketing. With Kiip.Me, he has devised a way for popular products to cash in on the mobile gaming obsessions of some 15 million mobile gamers. Gamers can earn rewards from retailers when they win a game or reach an achievement point within a game.
“Kiip-dot-ME is a brilliant, new marketing tool for retailers and a unique revenue generating opportunity for online gaming companies, and dot-ME is a great choice to tie it all together,” notes Predrag Lesic, executive director of the .ME Registry. “Entrepreneurs like Brian Wong choose dot-ME for their mobile brands because it’s hip, fun, easy to access and simple to recall.”
Blip.Me is a cross-platform smartphone application -- a useful, free way to turn your mobile phone into a walkie-talkie. “We chose the name and domain Blip-dot-ME because it has a very personal nature to it, and the dot-ME brand is consistent with the product and brand we’re building around personal mobile messaging,” states David King, co-founder of Blip.Me. “The dot-ME brand is social, personal and whimsical.”
“Companies like Kipp-dot-ME and Blip-dot-ME just get it,” adds Lesic, “Dot-ME was introduced to the world because we knew, from day one, that the extension would work with virtually every business idea and brand messaging campaign that could be conceived. In the end, isn’t selling any product or service all about what it can do for me?”
Another great example is online entrepreneur Brett Martin’s new start-up, Sonar.Me. This app helps users find out if people they are connected to on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and foursquare are close by. This innovative online app just won the Ultralight Startup pitch contest and was an attention-getter at last month’s TechCrunch Disrupt in New York.
