About a week ago, there was an announcement that there would be an auction in NYC, called the T.R.A.F.F.I.C auction, auctioning off the rights to a few “.me” domains. Right now, most domains end in .com, .org., or .edu.

I didn’t think that having .me at the end of a URL would fetch so much money at an auction. However, there have been a lot of clever URL names incorporating .me. Take a look after the jump to see which domains sold for the highest at the auction.

ICANN has recently announced they will begin allowing for new custom top level domains. While the details are still being worked out, the groups that want to have their own custom top level domain will have to meet some requirements. First and most important the “registrants applying for a top-level domain must prove that they have the ability to manage the sizable technical task of running it” of course that could also be as simple as hiring a group to handle that task for you. Second there will also be a fee involved, and while they are not set in stone yet, they are estimated to begin at around $100,000.

It sounds like that controversial .xxx domain that kept getting shut down will have yet another chance to come into light. However not all domain extensions will be approved, items that have been trademarked, or are close to an existing domain will be denied. For example I could see something like .vom being denied simply because its just one keyboard letter away from .com and could lead to more potential abuse from mistyped domain names.