The .me Registration Not Going So Well

I am hearing pretty bad reactions to .me registrations this morning. Here is my experience: Last night my GoDaddy Rep emailed me and asked what .me domains I was interested in and said he would register them for me right when the land rush started... cool... I gave him a short list: shoemoney.me ringtones.me (ringtone.me) was reserved but not ringtones.me freeringtones.me freeringtones4.me fuck.me (hey its funny) I got into the office a little later this morning about 10:15 and checked my email... hmm nothing from GoDaddy yet... so I tried the API to register them... no dice for .me domains. Then I went to their bulk registration page and pasted in the domains I wanted. It said they were all available. I guess thats bad news good news...

I purchased them all and checked out. Here is my web receipt: Then bragged on twitter that I got all the domains I wanted... in which I got hit with a barrage of replies saying they did too but then later got rejected... just then I got the email confirmation:

That made me feel a little better... but then I started getting the bad emails =(

SUNOVA.......... Others around the blogosphere are writing about their frustrations as well. While it seems to be mostly aimed at GoDaddy I think that might be a numbers game as the few people I know who use Enom are reporting the same frustrations. Bryn Youngblut has writting about his experience here (also great looking blog their Byrn)