You can reg a .me for 2 years for that "special" price and if I had to choose then I think that .me is a far better deal and more likely to have a chance of success.
Prices only get lowered by 50% when things are going badly. JMO
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I would but dot pro domains if it was cheaper. It is still quite expensive to reg one but then would be the "Regular" price after. That is the best way to get ppl into paying $$ lol
The big difference between .pro and biz is that pro means something and biz is a made up word. This translates to 14,565 US trademarks that include the word pro and only 767 that include the word biz. Plus, a heck of a lot of the 767 biz trademarks are actual .biz domains, none of the pro references are domains. Pro is 20 times more inherently brandable than .biz.
The difference between .me and .pro is that .pro is pitched at the people with the money, professional firms and individuals. .me is more of a novelty personal extension with a much narrower keyword range fit.
.pro fits just about every keyword. Casino.pro, Travel.pro, Debt.pro, Mortgage.pro, France.pro, Money.pro, all the big gun keywords work with .pro. .me doesn't work with that many blockbuster keywords, it works with verbs and in general verbs aren't killer commercial keywords.
I prefer .me to alot of other alternative extensions like .nu, .asia, you get some mind bogglingly brilliant keyword extension fits like Play.me, Find.me, Date.me but if you look at the biggest selling .coms, they just don't work with .me, eg. Diamond.me, Vodka.me, Pizza.me, Wine.me, CreditCards.me, Porn.me, Sex.me. Category killer million dollar .com's are definite articles, things that people type in to Google, they don't type in verbs.
The wonderful thing about .pro is it makes it sound like you know what are doing, like you are going get something extra or a better service. .Pro is keyword viagra, it can take a limp keyword and turn it into something you can hammer nails in with.
The problem with .pro is the ridiculous reg fees and cumbersome restrictions. $49 is way too high, nobody is going to pay 5-10 times a .com price for something hardly anybody has heard of.
.tv is overpriced but at least you can use it for whatever you want to use it for and sell it to whoever wants to buy it. With .pro you have to agree to "professional use" which means different things to different people, an online casino is arguably not professional use, even something tame like selling jewellery might not constitute professional use in the accountant or lawyer sense, it's all down to the registry's interpretation which isn't a solid foundation for starting an online business.
Yesterday, there were 5 .pros deleted and 5 created. And that was the day reg fees were cut by 50% to $49 which indicentally is a con because it's only for the first year and reg fees were $49 after the last failed attempt to kick off a landrush.
If somebody says .pro is a complete failure because the registry don't know how to develop a domain extension, I would agree, but it's not because .pro isn't a beautiful domain extension with heaps of branding potential.
I'm still sticking to the trusty .com before i invest in any speculative extensions like .pro or .me. I still prefer .me over .pro though normally when prices are slashed drastically by that much it indicates that they want more sales or no-one is buying...
Wow. That's an awesome post. Rep added. Good points made all around. It almost makes me want to buy one. The price and the restrictions are the big turn off. The price is the big set back to almost all new extensions, so PRO isn't alone. ME is way over-priced too. They would have sold a lot more and given the TLD a chance if they would have sold it dirt cheap.
i too would like to see .pro take off and was checking out motion.pro earlier today at work.
the wierd thing is on my laptop at work, ms is stealing traffic...
if i typed in http://motion.pro without the www. it took me to the site, but...
if i typed in http://www.motion.pro it took me to a ms search page?
