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Namecheap has given away 500,000 free .me domains

Kevin Murphy, September 6, 2023, 18:27:19 (UTC), Domain Registrars

A project started in 2014 has seen Namecheap give away 500,000 .me domains to university students in the Anglophone world.

The offer, started in 2014 at nc.me, is for the first year’s registration and is for students to create “online portfolios, resumes, blogs and other personal websites”.

Registrants authenticate themselves by having email addresses associated with universities, such as .edu in the US. Institutions in the UK and Australia are also supported.

Not all of the names registered over the last nine years are still registered, according to a spokesperson, but 500,000 would be a sizable chunk of .me’s total domains under management.

The registry, Domen, does not regularly publish its reg numbers but it hadn’t yet crossed the one million mark as of 2018, according to its web site.

The Namecheap spokesperson said that the registry provide the first-year regs for free under the partnership.


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Comments (3)

  1. Jean Henrique says:

    In summary, Namecheap forgets many students in underdeveloped countries to fawn over wealthy students in the United States.

    In other words, fuck the rest of the world!

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