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It seems .PRO is slowly coming out of the cage with cheaper reg prices than they were a year ago and major registrars like netsol taking notice of the extension and promoting it. B-)

Here are some that I picked up in last couple of days:

Alexandria.pro

Anchorage.pro

Arlington.pro

Belfast.pro

Birmingham.pro

Budapest.pro

Durham.pro

Fairfax.pro

Italian.pro

Lisbon.pro

Fire away with your regs after the relaunch on September 8th, 2008.
 
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There are hundreds of companies developing on .pro sites. I wouldn't worry about that. But developing .pro domains is really important so you are very right to be asking about it.

Its a serious issue. For instance... .Pro has been around 4 or 5 years now.... how many legit Fortune 500 companies operate primarily out of a .pro? Probably none.

I see the developed .Pro are either redirects or small startups. The vast majority of all .pro I visit are landing pages for Sedo to sell.

Over the past few days I picked up about 15 .pro domains, some off of the expired list, a few others hand reg, pretty much all great domains with the intent of developing them.

My full time business is financial services, so about half of the domains are totally amazing domains.... just .pro. =P They WILL BE developed. I just wish more professionals would actually do it..... and not a "professional" domainer. :sold:
 
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I understand that GoDaddy is not a registrar... but even bigger ones like name.com are letting you do it. If there was enough demand for .pro, godaddy and others would provide it, the issue I see... there is very little awareness for it, and because very few on a percentage basis are actually developed, it is not helping to fuel it.

I personally plan on developing at least 5 very soon, as a add on to my financial services business.

...and I do see a lot of Russian .pro domains. =)

(and yes... I am Russian speaking.... from Odessa)
 
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I understand that GoDaddy is not a registrar... but even bigger ones like name.com are letting you do it. If there was enough demand for .pro, godaddy and others would provide it, the issue I see... there is very little awareness for it, and because very few on a percentage basis are actually developed, it is not helping to fuel it.

I personally plan on developing at least 5 very soon, as a add on to my financial services business.

...and I do see a lot of Russian .pro domains. =)

(and yes... I am Russian speaking.... from Odessa)

I think you might be putting the cart before the horse. First GoDaddy has to become a registrar for .Pro, then market it, and then the demand follows. imo

How do we get GoDaddy's attention ... in a large way?



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Enom is a .pro registrar, but you have to dig their site real hard :ghost:

I guess the registrars cannot efficiently promote dozens of extensions at the same time. Choices have to be made.

Front window promotion (or the lack thereof) is going to be the major issue for the upcoming new TLDs. Only a few will be able to stand out.

Imagine if Godaddy presents you with a huge table with 300 different TLDs.
People would run away.
But they are perfectly capable of pimping individual TLDs one at a time: first .me then .co etc.
 
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GoDaddy >>> more .PRO sites/emails in USA/Canada >>> more demand on .PRO regardless of any "TLD-tables".

Enom is a .pro registrar
eNom works via his resellers, at now .PRO is ignored by most of them (Namecheap for example).
.PRO has been discussed by me and Namecheap today…
So I'm waiting for good news in the near future…
 
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Thanks Jurgen for the russian forum link. Here is the google russian .pro forum translation. I can only imagine that .pro will emerge as a leading extension in the near future as I think it is being more recognized in russia and europe than the US.

---------- Post added at 07:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:06 PM ----------

Maybe some of you have seen this, but DomainIncite published this (and hey they are smart enough to own domainincite.pro)

"I understand that cleaning up and reinvigorating .pro’s image has been put firmly on the Afilias agenda in recent months. It’s a great string, and I reckon it could do well with the proper marketing." Read full article here on .pro domains
 
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i bought stocktrading.pro on snapnames several days ago.. i was the only bidder @49.. pretty sure even in .us or .biz there would have been more interest, sad fact for the extension
daytrading.pro had bids but only 1 bidder went over $100 - snapnames also
 
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As of July 2012, over 160,000 .PRO domains have been registered by users all over the world. Moreover, it has seen an immense growth in monthly additions by achieving an average of 6,500 .PRO domains registered every month.
http://blog.logicboxes.com/2012/08/06/pro-now-available-on-orderbox/

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i bought stocktrading.pro on snapnames several days ago.. i was the only bidder @49.. pretty sure even in .us or .biz there would have been more interest, sad fact for the extension
daytrading.pro had bids but only 1 bidder went over $100 - snapnames also
Read carefully: www.namepros.com/522420-the-pro-discussion-158.html#post4356287
You can buy even 1-word .PROs for $49 on snapnames (EnCirca's expired .PROs).
Nothing new for me.
 
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Read carefully: www.namepros.com/522420-the-pro-discussion-158.html#post4356287
You can buy even 1-word .PROs for $49 on snapnames (EnCirca's expired .PROs).
Nothing new for me.

oh, really?! whata surprise!

..one can easily buy .pro 1-worders at snap or just take a drop.
but those names 1) are not premium keywords at all with rare exceptions and/or 2) dont fit the extension which is killing them

am i supposed to say "nothing new for me either" at this point?..
 
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Just an example of "$49"-.PROs: dekor
Bonus:
Dekor net $7,000 Mar 07 Sedo
Dekor com $12,000 Mar 07 Sedo
 
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Just an example of "$49"-.Pros: dekor

read carefully - "not premium"

probably if no one needs it @49 "dekor" is not a premium word? think about it
"decor" wouldnt go for this price no?

only 14,800 global searches, 880 US - maybe it's premium in Ukraine i'm not sure..
 
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deCor bought for $49 on snap also.
2 domains (german/russian/etc. + english/etc.) = 1 owner at now.

Don't waste my time.
Thanks.
 
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Don't waste my time.

if your time is that precious i'd suggest to not read and post here - that could save you some time i believe

..and you can also try to dislike all my posts in other threads too if you want

congrats on decor anyway..
 
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Why are you guys talking about what's happening with Pro NOW? Everyone knows that in most cases you can't give them away. No one is doing or saying anything productive. If you don't like Pros, go away.

I saw a mention of Afilias and one of GoDaddy in the posts above. Most of us think we know what Afilias has planned but I've seen their plans change a couple of times this year.

So we need Afilias to follow through with their original plans. Does anyone know how we might help move them along?

And GoDaddy ... who are the contacts? Does anyone know someone who might have some contacts within GoDaddy.

Whatever we do, we need ideas and we need to get on with it. If we don't we might as well drop this thread. 90% of it is no more than bickering and pissin' and moaning.


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I think we're waiting on Afilias. For some reason, I anticipated that after their acquisition of the .pro registry we'd be in a lull. I'm convinced we are now sitting in it.
 
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Well, there is always a lull before the storm.

With ResellerClub picking up this extension, a whole mass of resellers will now start offering this extension, which means a whole lot of eyeballs on .pro - worldwide.

Am not sure but the number of resellers in RC would be almost as much as those in WildWest, if not more and RC is #9 registrar globally, not exactly chopped liver.

And while you can still pick up single word domains and two word terms in .pro easily on drops, the good ones aren't cheap, even on snapnames.

Interesting times!
 
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i have no idea how reseller club is offering 2.99 .pro domains. I realize you pay a fee to be a reseller, but the story I was given that .pro registry fees went up across the board driven by the registry and raised costs. Seems unfair that many of the regular registrars are priced highly. What's up with that??

Wish GoDaddy would sign .pro up. It looks like most every other registrar on the chart carries .pro at this point but them...of course they account for over 30% of the market which is highly important.
 
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NOT fee!
It's a completely usable deposit of $99.

Also you can buy via bigrock.com (Directi for customers) for $3.49 without any deposits.

Maybe Afilias provides discounted pricing for any new registrar for a limited time.
 
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Jurgen..Does that apply to renewals or transfers.
 
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