Register a .me domain
Register a .me domain to turn your name into a sentence — hire.me, about.me, follow.me. .me is Montenegro's official country code, but its real-world use is almost entirely as a domain-hack ending, built into a phrase rather than tacked onto the end of a brand name. There's no residency requirement, so anyone can claim one.
Who picks .me?
- Personal brand and portfolio sites building the name into a sentence or handle (e.g. hire.me, follow.me)
- Product or campaign microsites using .me as a short, memorable link (in the style of wp.me or fb.me)
- Freelancers, consultants, and coaches who want a domain that reads as personal rather than corporate
What it signals
Registering .me signals you picked a domain on purpose — for the wordplay or personal branding it enables — not because the .com you wanted was taken. It reads as intentional rather than a fallback.
Pros
- Open registration worldwide — no Montenegro residency or local presence needed
- Renewal cost matches what you paid at signup, with no markdown-then-markup pricing games
- WHOIS privacy at no extra charge, where the registry's rules permit it
- Built for wordplay — a verb or word plus .me reads as a complete phrase, which most ccTLDs can't do
- We handle SPF/DKIM/DMARC configuration so mail from a personal-brand domain still lands in the inbox
Watch-outs
- Registration and renewal cost more than a typical .com — we're upfront that we're not the cheapest option
- As a ccTLD it carries less default trust with some users than .com for e-commerce or finance
- Some names are held back as registry premium inventory, and Montenegro's reserved government/education subdomains (e.g. gov.me) aren't open to the public
Registry restrictions
No residency or local-presence requirement — .me is open to registration by anyone, worldwide. The registry withholds some names as premium inventory, and Montenegro's official government and institutional use is carved out separately (not part of general public registration).
Examples of .me domains in the wild
.me at renewal — us vs the big registrars
The first-year promo isn’t the number that matters — the renewal price is, because that’s what you pay every year after. Competitor figures for .me are modeled estimates.
| Registrar | Renewal / yr |
|---|---|
| Modusdom flat | $28.30 |
| GoDaddy | $34.99est |
| Namecheap | $19.98est |
| Porkbun | $17.27est |
Our price is the same in year 1 and year 10. See the full renewal-price index or the detailed registrar comparison.