The domain name MEET.ME was the highest profiled and most expensive dot me (.ME) domain ever sold. It was announced in early November of last year that the jointly owned domain by Rick Schwartz, Mike Berkens and Ammar Kubba was sold for a whopping $450K in an all-cash deal… But the real buyer of this short and catchy domain hack was never identified or confirmed publicly… Until now.

We’ve been able to piece together all of the pieces of the puzzle and provide you with a quick breakdown of what happened in this past 6 – 12 month’s and what is still to come for the newly unveiled MeetMe brand created by the merger of Quepasa and myYearbook.

Quepasa + myYearbook = MeetMe

The new website at Meet.Me was launched and officially made available a month ago. It was then announced in a press release that publicly traded Quepasa (NYSE Amex: QPSA), a market leader for social discovery and owner of North-American platform myYearbook and Latin-American platform Quepasa (often called the Facebook of Latino’s) that the parent company and it’s affiliated brands are being consolidated and re-branded under a single umbrella with a new name: MeetMe.

Quepasa originally acquired MyYearbook.com for a cool $100 big ones in July of 2011. $82 million in stock and the remainder in cash. It looks like they didn’t waste any time and immediately started brainstorming and re-strategizing for bigger and better things. According to reports by ComScore, MyYearbook is the top web site in the Teens category with more visits, minutes, and pageviews than anybody else.

See the rest of the story after the jump.

Their latest moves aim to establish the company as the global social networking brand for meeting new people. The company will be rolling out the new “MeetMe” name across all websites and mobile platforms later this year, beginning with myYearbook sometime in July. John Abbott, CEO of Quepasa Corporation said:

“MeetMe reflects the company’s mission — to build the leading social network for meeting new people — and underscores what our members across the Americas already expect each time they log in. With MeetMe, we look forward to bringing the highly engaging mobile and web products that myYearbook created to a global audience. MeetMe is the natural next step in our effort to align the long-established mission of the company with the outward facing brand: to build a platform synonymous with meeting new people throughout the world.”

Source from http://www.domainnamenews.com

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