Just 10 days remain until the ME registry open their doors to first come first served regular Open Registration on 17th July at 15:00 GMT/16:00 BST/11:00 EST. The Landrush period is now closed and the Registry operator has advised us that auction and single applicant allocations will take place this week.

Registry launches are incredibly important events. They are your first opportunity to secure top domain names before others do. We are one of a handful of accredited registrars taking pre-orders, prioritising our queue by the earliest orders. This means that the millisecond the registry opens, we will attempt to secure your domain; aiming to match or exceed the 95%+ success rate we achieved with the recent .asia launch, during the same stage. Check out the DotAsia press release if you don't believe us!

We thought it would be helpful to tell you a few facts about registry launches and how we work at Domainmonster.com. We've experienced incredible success with .mobi, .eu and .asia launches and want to be clear and open about our technology and the process we follow to achieve this success.

• We only allow one pre-order per domain name at this stage.

• Our queue is ordered by the earliest pre-orders first.

• We cleared our .asia queue in less than 120 seconds from registry opening, with thousands and thousands of pre-orders.

• From the second the registry opens we are 100% live. You request isn't queued, its either available and yours or it isn't.

• It's a myth that some Registrars have multiple connections to the registry. It's strictly controlled by the Registry. We have a proven track record from many of the major recent launches, continually improving our technology.

• We take payment up front and refund to your Domainmonster.com account if we are unsuccessful (Statistically, very un-likely!). The banks are the weakest link! If we took payment during the order, we wouldn't be fast enough during the most critical time.

• All pre-orders at this stage are 100% refundable as Domainmonster.com Account Credit. No handling charge.

So, act now if you are serious about securing .me domain names. As a two letter TLD, there is no doubt this will be a highly competitive domain name, especially at the discounted and totally public Open Registration stage.