GoDaddy has been having problems with the commencement of .me registrations this week, with many potential registrants supposedly successfully going through the registration process only to find they subsequently receive an email advising them their registration has failed.
Twitter has been inundated with some registrants finding they are only one of several who supposedly have successfully registered the same domain name.
A response from Go Daddy published on Mashable says âWe knew the .ME Open Registration response would be tremendous, but it went beyond even what we had expected. As a result, we experienced some system issues in our communication with the registry. As soon as we became aware of the issue we began taking steps to correct it. It is now resolved.â
Some of the domains that have multiple owners are hug.me with around half a dozen registrants, reported by TechCrunch, and aweso.me with eight or nine, reported by Mashable.
For further information, see TechCrunch at www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/17/godaddys-domain-registration-totally-screws-me and Mashable at mashable.com/2008/07/17/godaddy-offers-me-domain-names-itâs-a-big-fail-so-far/.