Does the .ending on a domain need to be relevant? [closed]

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Published on 2012-09-20T12:10:12Z Indexed on 2012/09/20 21:54 UTC
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I see a lot of people now opting to use

myname.im

or

myname.me

But after doing some checking, i found that .im domain names are meant to be Isle of Man endings. Is this correct, and does it matter that people opt to use this domain ending if they are not even based anywhere near the Isle of Man.

It is Ok to use a domain ending purely for how good it sounds is what I'm really after. Or is it bad practice to do this.

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