PODGORICA, Montenegro--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- WordPress.com, the world’s most popular blog-building site, has announced that it has added .ME as its newest domain extension option when customizing a domain name on a WordPress site. The announcement was made by WordPress.com founder, Matt Mullenweg, at the international WebFest.Me conference in Montenegro in late September.

“I am very excited about this because a name can make such a huge difference,” said Mullenweg at the WebFest.Me conference. “Dot-ME, based on the fortune of your country code, ends up sounding pretty cool with a lot of domain names.” Mullenweg also touted the fact that his company secured the first two-letter .ME domain name, WP.Me. He noted that in the year since its launch more than 1.3 billion people have clicked on the popular URL.

“We are so proud of our ongoing association with WordPress.com,” said Predrag Lesic, Executive Director of the .ME Registry. “First, we experienced the explosive popularity of WP-dot-ME; and, now, this opportunity for WordPress blogs to carry a dot-ME domain name extension. We are grateful that a company as visible and vital as WordPress.com sees the worldwide appeal of dot-ME.”

For WordPress.com executives and engineers, the addition of the .ME domain name extension for members made perfect sense. In a recent blog, Evan Solomon with Automattic, WordPress.com’s parent company, wrote: “Rather than adding numbers or dropping vowels for a dot-com you don’t really want, check out dot-ME and find the perfect fit for your business, your name, or just a pun you can’t stop laughing at. We’ve seen lots of creative domain names-as-sentences using dot-ME, such as About.Me and Connect.Me.”

If you want to upgrade to a .ME domain name for a new WordPress.com site, visit: www.WordPress.com/Signup. If you want to add a .ME domain name to an existing WordPress.com site, you can follow step-by-step instructions. It’s only $2 per month.

For other examples and articles about the many clever uses of .ME, visit www.Domain.me/Blog.

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 a Montenegrin registrar and its founders are leaders of the ICT sector in Montenegro, who among other things participated in a successful privatization of Montenegrin largest ISP. GoDaddy.com is the largest worldwide mass-market hosting provider by annual revenue according to Tier1 Research (Mass-Market Hosting Report-Winter 2011) and is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar. Afilias Limited is headquartered in Ireland and is a leading registry services provider, supporting more than 15 million domains worldwide.

CONTACT:

.ME Registry
Natasa Djukanovic
+382-20-269-740
1-866-941-5341 (fax)
Info@domain.me

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