[dmurdoch]

It's really funny you mention this because I just spent all weekend trying to get the free .me while actually living in Canada and going to a Canada school. I tried with my own school email, and they took forever to send the confirmation email, so I requested it again. This invalidated previous emails and sent a new one, but every time I re-requested, the email I would get would already be invalid, perpetually out of sink. I opened a ticket, talked to customer support, they didn't really do anything useful. In the end I used my girlfriends email to confirm I was a Canada student, then used my private email for the actual namecheap account.

The whole thing was not very fun, but in the end you seem to need the US, UK, or CAN email for the initial confirmation.