New York Times Partnering For News Service at News.me

Friday, September 10th, 2010

.Me gets another vote of confidence.

The New York Times is collaborating with technology incubator Betaworks for a new services at News.me. This comes from a reliable source: a blog at The New York Times…

Mr. Zimbalist said that The Times Company, which participated in Betaworks’ most recent round of financing, struck an arrangement where Betaworks would buy a prototype of the app that was created by members of The Times Company’s development labs, and that same team would work with Betaworks developers to finish it.

That structure appears somewhat like a technology commercialization deal.

The post hints that the site will be a social news service. But it doesn’t really matter what it is. From a domain name perspective this is a big win for the .Me domain name. Having a large media organization releasing a site at News.me will be good for the ccTLD.

Further Reading:

  1. After Losing UDRP, New York Times Buys DealBook.com from Frank Schilling
  2. New York Times Wins Case Against Typosquatter
  3. New York Times covers itunes.co.uk domain name dispute

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  1. BreakingNewsBlog.us
    September 10th, 2010 | 12:06 pm

    despite it’s short, the BEST domain name for this news service isn’t news.me ……. :)

  2. hastings
    September 10th, 2010 | 1:35 pm

    great news for .me
    there have been a lot of big .me sales past year or so with little headlines
    many 5 fig sales on dnjournal recently and auctions

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