Extensions

It seems that the .ME landrush hasn't gone well. Many prospective .ME registrants have not been awarded the names they were after, and the registry system itself seems to have lost track of reality and started awarding the same domains to several registrants.

A Washington Post article claims that registrants have had their credit cards charged by GoDaddy, who has partnered with Afilias to launch .ME, even though they didn't get the name(s) they were after.

The problem appears to be bigger than expected demand for .ME and an inability for GoDaddy's servers to keep up with it. I find that extremely worrying if that's true, considering the millions of domains said company currently has under management. Should we expect their servers to crash under that load as well?