.me
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| Introduced | 2006 |
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| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | domain.me (doMEn) |
| Sponsor | Government of Montenegro |
| Intended use | Entities connected with  Montenegro
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| Actual use | Positions itself for global use like a personal namespace .name: can be registered and used for any purpose. Used by businesses in Maine, Middle East, and Montenegro and is popular for domain hacks. |
| Registration restrictions | None |
| Structure | Second-level registrations available worldwide; third-level registrations under certain second-level names available within Montenegro |
| Documents | Policies |
| Dispute policies | Sunrise Policy, and UDRP |
| Website | Domain.me |
| DNSSEC | Yes |
.me is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Montenegro.
The .me top level domain replaced the .yu (Yugoslavia) and .cg.yu domains previously used by Serbia and Montenegro.
The .me registry is operated by doMEn, which won a contract to do so after a bid process conducted by the government of Montenegro and was launched through various accredited registrars around the world.
Montenegro declared its independence from Serbia and Montenegro on 3 June 2006, after a majority of Montenegrins supported independence in a national referendum. As a constituent part of that country, Montenegro had unofficially been using the .cg.yu second-level domain, while the .cs top-level domain (TLD) had been assigned to Serbia and Montenegro in 2003 following the breakup of Yugoslavia, but remained unused. Montenegro was assigned the ISO 3166-1 two-letter code "ME", which was allocated by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in September 2006 (most other possible abbreviations of Montenegro (MO, MN, MT, MG and MR) and its Montenegrin name Crna Gora (CG) having already been taken).
In September 2007, ICANN delegated the .me domain to the Government of Montenegro, with the former .yu domain to be operated temporarily by the .rs domain registry (Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names) until its eventual abolition on or before 30 September 2009. Delegation of root name servers was approved by IANA, establishing .me. The .me domain became active on 24 September 2007 and a "Public Invitation for selection of the Agent for domain registration under the national Internet domain of Montenegro" was posted on 14 November. doMEn d.o.o.—a Montenegro-based joint venture whose partners are Afilias, GoDaddy.com, and ME-net d.o.o.—was selected as the new registry operator.
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