One of the most important things a business owner should do is always protect his brand from willing opportunists. Forgetting to register your .me domain name ahead of time is definitely not smart business. One good example of a huge company forgetting to register their their .me domain is twitter.com. According to a popular tech site valleywag.com, it seems the guys behind twitter had a major slip up and forgot to register twitter.me considering their brand is one of the hottest verb-terms around these days. Now, twitter.me really sounds like an awesome name and twitter.com will definitely have to dig deep in their pockets to acquire it else be involved in an unnecessary legal battle just to get it. Either way, their paying. It's like they're waiting to get punked!Here's a few more company's who probably just didn't care for their brand name. Either these guys weren't in on things things or they just forgot to take advantage of the .me domain sunrise period months ago. Either way, they may have or would be paying much more than what they should have spent by reserving their .me domain name.Myspace.meBaidu.meMitsubishi.meDisney.meTyco.meLastminute.meWould these companies even care that somebody else have their .me domains? Sure they do. So Business Sense 101: Don't let domain squatters muscle you off your property. Don't even give them a chance to make money out of you and your .me domain.
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