.me Domain
Your Personal Corner of the Internet
Register your .me domain from just £19.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
This domain has registration restrictions
Anyone worldwide may register a .me at the second level, but the third-level zones such as co.me and org.me are restricted to individuals and entities of Montenegro. Read the full eligibility rules.
What is a .me domain?
The .me domain is the internet's most personal TLD. Originally Montenegro's country code, it's been adopted globally for personal branding, portfolios, and online CVs. Developers host side projects on it. Freelancers build their entire brand around it. Two letters, first person, impossible to forget.
Who should register .me?
Freelancers, developers, creatives, job seekers, and anyone building a personal brand online.
Why choose .me?
- The most personal TLD available
- Two letters, first person
- Adopted globally for personal branding
- Perfect for portfolios and CVs
Who runs .me, and since when
Registry data from the .me delegation record held by IANA, which maintains the internet's root zone. Eligibility comes from the registry's own policy, and the prices are ours.
- Extension type
- Country-code (ccTLD)
- Registry operator
- Government of Montenegro
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2007
- Delegated 24 September 2007
- Who can register
- Open worldwide at the second level; third-level .me zones are Montenegro only
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £19.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
- Transfer in
- £19.99
- Adds a year to whatever is left on the domain
Why Google files .me under generic, not Montenegro
The .me domain is the only extension in common use that changes the grammar of an address. The label before the dot stops being a name and becomes a verb or a preposition, and the extension becomes the object of it. That is why the extension collected personal sites, portfolios and link shorteners rather than Montenegrin business, and why t.me and wa.me end up on billions of screens without anybody reading them as a country.
The country is real, though, and the arrangement behind it is unusual enough to be worth understanding. Montenegro became independent in 2006 and was assigned the ISO 3166-1 code ME. IANA delegated .me on 24 September 2007 with the Government of Montenegro as the sponsoring organisation. Day-to-day registry services are run commercially by doMEn d.o.o., which describes itself in its own terms as "a registry services provider for .ME". So the extension rests on a contract between a government and an operator rather than on an ICANN registry agreement, and the registry markets it to three quite different audiences from its own website: worldwide, Montenegro and the Middle East, plus a separate regional view for Maine, whose United States postal abbreviation is also ME.
The rule that catches UK buyers out
Second-level names are wide open. The registry states that a name of the form yourbrand.me is available to any individual or corporation worldwide without restriction or specific requirements, and that nothing needs to be supplied to prove it. The third level is a different zone with different rules. Names under net.me, org.me, co.me, its.me and priv.me may only be held by individuals and entities of Montenegro, and only two registrars are permitted to sell them at all. If you have seen co.me somewhere and assumed it was a cheaper alternative to .co.uk, it is not available to you and no registrar outside Montenegro can place the order.
The other thing to weigh is what the word does to your site as it grows. First person is what makes the extension work, and it is also its ceiling. An "About me" page reads perfectly on a .me. An "About us" page at the same address reads as a business that has not updated its domain since it was one person at a kitchen table. If the plan is to stay a personal brand, that is no problem at all. If you expect to hire, buy the .co.uk at the same time and decide later which one is the front door.
We also treat some vanity ccTLDs (such as .tv and .me) as gTLDs, as we've found that users and website owners frequently see these as being more generic than country-targeted.
What that means if you are buying one
Two things follow from that, and buyers usually only hear the first. Nobody, Google included, is going to mistake your site for a Montenegrin one. But a generic reading also means no country boost in Google UK, which a .co.uk gets by default. If UK visibility matters to you, that country target is now yours to set in Search Console.
Who is allowed to register .me?
Anyone worldwide may register a .me at the second level, but the third-level zones such as co.me and org.me are restricted to individuals and entities of Montenegro.
- Second level is open
- A name of the form yourbrand.me carries no residency test, no nationality test and no documents to supply. The registry states that these names are available to any individual or corporation worldwide without restriction or specific requirements.
- Third level is Montenegro only
- Names under net.me, org.me, co.me, its.me and priv.me may only be registered by individuals and entities of Montenegro, and the registry permits only two registrars, ME-net and WebLab, to sell them. An order from a UK registrant cannot be accepted at all, so it is refused outright rather than registered and challenged later.
- Some zones sit outside the registry
- edu.me and ac.me are administered by the University of Montenegro Center of Information Systems, and gov.me by the Ministry of Public Administration. Those bodies are approached directly and are not reachable through any registrar.
- Name format rules
- A second-level name may be as short as one character and as long as 63, using the Latin letters a to z, digits and hyphens, and may not begin or end with a hyphen. Internationalised names are accepted in a long published list of scripts.
- Reserved and premium names
- A reserved list is held back for the Government of Montenegro and for registry use, and it is not published, so a name can be unregistered and still unavailable. A separate premium tier sells above the standard price, which is why a short or common word may quote well over the figure on this page.
Rules taken from the .ME registry policies. Registry policy can change, so check before you buy if the answer matters to you.
Not sure whether you qualify? Ask us before you order and we will check the registry rules with you. We would rather answer the question than take an order the registry will refuse.
Is .me the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.me works well if
- Your website is you: a portfolio, a CV, a speaking page or a writing site where the whole point is that one named person stands behind it.
- You want the address itself to read as an instruction. Words like hire, book, ask and read all turn into a sentence in front of this extension.
- You need a short redirect or link target to sit in front of a longer site, which is the job t.me and wa.me do for Telegram and WhatsApp.
- Your audience is international, so a UK-specific extension would tell them nothing useful about you.
Look elsewhere if
- The business is going to grow past one person. First person is the appeal, and it turns awkward the moment the site starts saying "we" and listing a team.
- You sell mainly to UK customers who search locally. Google treats .me as generic, so it gives you none of the country signal a .co.uk gives, at about twice the annual price.
- You need registrant privacy without paying for it. Free WHOIS privacy applies only to .uk extensions under Nominet rules, so on a .me it is a paid add-on.
- You wanted one of the third-level zones such as co.me or org.me. Those are closed to anyone outside Montenegro and the order will simply be refused.
Building a company rather than a personal brand? Register the .co.uk as the business address and keep the .me for the page about you. See .co.uk pricing.
.me vs .co.uk: which should you register?
A UK freelancer usually ends up holding both of these, so the useful question is which one is the front door. A .me is the personal address: your name, your work, your face. A .co.uk is the trading address: the invoice, the terms, the phone number, the thing a nervous customer checks before paying a deposit.
The practical gaps are worth knowing before you choose. A .co.uk carries a UK signal that Google acts on, comes in at roughly half the price, and transfers between registrars free of charge. Nominet's consent-based rules also mean a UK individual's name and address are not published by default, so registrant privacy costs nothing, where on a .me it is a paid add-on. Against that, a .co.uk says nothing about you personally and cannot produce the sentence effect that makes a .me memorable.
Transfers differ too. A .uk transfer is an IPS tag change and lands almost immediately, ours being STACK, while a .me takes hours to days.
| .me | .co.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| Root delegation | 2007 | 1985, under .uk |
| Google reads it as | Generic, no country signal | A UK signal |
| WHOIS privacy | Paid add-on | Free for UK individuals |
| Transfer | Hours to days, none in the first five | Near instant IPS tag change |
| Annual cost | About twice a .co.uk | The cheaper of the two |
| Third-level names | Montenegro residents only | Open to anyone |
.me domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .me domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyYes, at the second level. The registry publishes that yourbrand.me is available to any individual or corporation worldwide with no restriction or specific requirement, which is why the extension spread far outside Montenegro. The exception is the third level. Names under net.me, org.me, co.me, its.me and priv.me are limited to individuals and entities of Montenegro, and only two Montenegrin registrars may sell them.
Yes. ME is Montenegro's ISO 3166-1 country code, assigned after independence in 2006, and IANA records the Government of Montenegro as the sponsoring organisation for the extension delegated on 24 September 2007. What makes it feel generic is how it is used and how Google reads it, not any doubt about its status. Registry services are provided commercially by doMEn d.o.o. under that government arrangement.
It is neutral rather than bad, which is not the same as helpful. Google lists .me among the country-code extensions it treats as generic, so it carries no geographic weight in either direction. The practical effect for a UK business is that you miss the local lift a .co.uk gets for free, and have to set a country target in Search Console instead. For a personal brand aimed at an international audience, that neutrality is exactly what you want.
Because two letters are quick to type and the extension completes the sentence. wa.me and t.me both resolve to their parent services and exist to make a link short enough to say aloud or print on a card. That use also explains why single-letter and two-letter .me names carry such value: the registry permits second-level names as short as one character, which most registries do not.
The grammar that sells it is also its limit. An address built around "me" starts working against you when the business is three people and the site is saying "we", and changing a domain later costs you links, search history and email continuity. Add a renewal at roughly twice a .co.uk, privacy as a chargeable extra, and no country signal in UK results. None of that is a reason to avoid it for a personal site. All of it matters if you are naming a company.
Usually a few hours to a few days, once you have the authorisation code and the domain is unlocked at your current registrar. There is one waiting period to plan around: the registry does not allow a registrar-to-registrar transfer in the five days after a name is created. The transfer adds a year to the term, and your existing registration period carries over rather than being lost.
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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