The .PRO Discussion

[InvisionTech]

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.

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.

 

[terol]

Times are changing, Brad!

 

[Edward Smeu]

Like any investor, I hope the market will go up of course but there is a reason why I invest in this extension, it's not a no-brainer red/black gambling.

There is nothing bad to ask for more (that's the most I love in domaining) as the sale price of a domain is vague, not like in any other business ( like buying real-estate).

You can ask for a price and remain with the name unsold if no buyer will pay that high,there are pros and cons, it's all about luck (preparation + opportunity).

As far as I can see (already said it in this topic),this extesion's biggest problem(only problem) is that its supposed not to rank well.

If we get over that, I can only see .pro being the 2nd best gTLD after .com in the future. Why?

First of all because of what it stands for (PROFESSIONAL) and the pros will ALWAYS have the edge in any business in front of the others. (Ex. I will always choose Smile.pro instead of Smile.net if I were to find a dentist)

With the recent xx,xxx sales and the purchase of the registry by Afilias, the only things .PRO needs is continuity in sales combined with marketing and in the next years it will really reach top 3. (In my view)

 

[webdomain]

It's good to see people selling as that in itself keeps the market turning and the .pro snowball keep getting bigger. Wait till .pro becomes even slightly better known main stream. It's a killer extension.

 

[Londoneli]

Every time someone takes a picture of someone they are asked to “SMILE” One can imagine dozens of ideas for this domain name…every phone and tablet has or will have a front facing camera

I like this, with my Picture.pro and Pictures.pro!!(smile))))

 

[Edward Smeu]

Just snapped a killer one(like it a lot): FlightSimulator. over 200k exacts, 500 exacts on "flight simulator pro" and 12k exacts!! on 'pro flight simulator'

 

[JoeBiz]

Excerpts from Afilias press release ...

" ... the .PRO domain will soon be able to take advantage of Afilias’ market-leading registry services platform."

" ... we’ll be operating on a business-as-usual basis until the migration plan is complete.”

" ... it takes attention, dedication and resources to help a TLD achieve its full strategic potential. That’s why Afilias, which is focused on building TLDs, is excited to have .PRO join our portfolio of growing, successful domains.”


8^X

 

[siga]

BTW, how did u make the sale?emailing end-users or?

All the .pro sales i've had have been end users coming to me. This one was via an offer on sedo just after the godaddy sales. There have been quite a few lowball offers on sedo also tho.

Congrats!

Thanks

$2200 is at this point a very low price and not a good sale. It’s missing a 2 and is worth $22,200 this year.

I'm happy with the price as it came at the right time. I think your valuation may be a tad high, I used the .me price of 5300 and the mobi price of 1500 as outlyers when considering my final price. Also sold style in december for a similar price. GKjunior would you mind editing full name of the domain.tld please I'm keen it does not get indexed out of respect for the buyer. Thanks

I'll look forward to see how pro prices go this year.

 

[Edward Smeu]

Siga, don't forget to announce dnjournal about the sale, it's good advertising for the extension. Thanks.

 

[Edward Smeu]

I was just approved with this sale in the High Prices Section :

http://www.namepros.com/high-priced-domains/751562-applications-pro-more-re-seller-price.html

I will move it to Flippa for max exposure if nothing happens on NP.

 

[nevinskii]

bomb.pro
coffee.pro
fish.pro
woman.pro
king.pro
programmer.pro
atlas.pro
desert.pro
mount.pro
LADY.PRO
MISS.PRO
FRIEND.PRO и FRIENDS.PRO
whom won't complicate, if participate, throw off the prices on which these domains will leave...

 

[B&J]

Zurab has parked freelancer.pro with Name.ly/PRO - allowing sub-domain and email leasing. What do you think of the concept I wonder?

 

[Ben42]

It could be a way to generate income. Would it be like graphicdesign.freelancer.pro?

 

[webdomain]

Just put sparkle.pro for sale on flippa.com as I notice a few other good .pro listings for developed site...not many, but sail.pro and xrumor.pro are both listed.

Anyway, as I wrote the description for the listing I've convinced myself that the domain offers great potential for someone wanting to spend more time than I have promoting the business and developing it. Anyway a few more postings on flippa can only raise awareness for .pro domains in general and maybe a new owner can be found.

In general it looks like this summer .pro will transition to Afilias network and hopefully another big auction will keep everything clicking along. .pro domains future is certainly bright...with a good amount of 1K + sales recently.

Cheers all!

 

[webdomain]

congrats ben42! looks like sail.pro has gone to auction on flippa.

 

[Ben42]

Thanks, needed to do some house cleaning! Someone may get a real deal on that one.

 

[webdomain]

I'll try and promote a little. This was interesting flippa auction on reboot.pro, hasn't hit the reserve but somebody offered 10K for it.

No real revenue reported, but the traffic stats are impressive which is why it probably got the good starting offer.

 

[JoeBiz]

That is an urban legend, dot pro works for SEO exactly as any other gTLD (com, net, org, biz, travel, etc) or ccgTLD (cc, tv, ws, etc).

Absolutely.

As far as I'm concerned the problems are lack of patience on our part and the lack of promotion and marketing by Registry.pro and now by Afilias. So far marketing has been non-existent. If you scan back a page or so you'll see a post I made that outlined Afilias' marketing plan. Considering that's what Afilias does ... rejuvenate extensions ... I feel pretty good about it.

I believe now's the time to ease off of selling efforts (nothing but frustration) and keep a close eye on Afilias for the rest of the year.


8^X

---------- Post added at 11:02 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:38 AM ----------

I do not understand why many of us are spending good money on Pros at auctions before checking out the Pro portfolios right here under our noses. I cringe every time I see people post about winning a Pro for $2000.

Everyone benefits if you check to see what's in the neighborhood before you head off for the Big City auctions.

:P

 

[PNW]

---------- Post added at 11:02 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:38 AM ----------

I do not understand why many of us are spending good money on Pros at auctions before checking out the Pro portfolios right here under our noses. I cringe every time I see people post about winning a Pro for $2000.

Everyone benefits if you check to see what's in the neighborhood before you head off for the Big City auctions.

:P

Maybe the many = many of the few involved here with this extension.

There have been only two significant .PRO neighborhood sales I can remember and these were 3+ years ago:
http://www.namepros.com/domains-for-sale-fixed-price/526048-pro_forsale-king-pro-forsale-pro.html and http://www.namepros.com/540042-33-pro-on-auction-6.html

There are very few (if any and few is the keyword here) members spending any amount on the .PRO extension in the neighborhood. Now, if someone values their time at pennies per hour, prices their names at or below regfee or even slightly above and their names are considered good/decent then there might be a sale.

I'm not sure how to articulate my beef w/ the idea of "everyone benefits" when x and/or y happens. If there is a decent return on investment and time at least one person benefits besides the registrar.

As far as I'm concerned the problems are lack of patience on our part and the lack of promotion and marketing by Registry.pro and now by Afilias. So far marketing has been non-existent. If you scan back a page or so you'll see a post I made that outlined Afilias' marketing plan. Considering that's what Afilias does ... rejuvenate extensions ... I feel pretty good about it.

I believe now's the time to ease off of selling efforts (nothing but frustration) and keep a close eye on Afilias for the rest of the year.


8^X

If there is true confidence in the extension there should be no waiting game / no need to be dependent on what Afilias does or does not do.

 

[JoeBiz]

If there is true confidence in the extension there should be no waiting game / no need to be dependent on what Afilias does or does not do.

Really. Pro is going to grow without any promotion by Afilias. It's just a matter of confidence, like dot CO. They would have sold millions with or without the marketing. ......... Well you got me. April Fools back at ya!!

If the rest of your portfolio looks anything like the Pros in your signature, that's a problem. But if you have true confidence in the extension, what are you waiting for? Why are you holding onto those Pros? The only possible answer is that you invested in an extension in which you have no true confidence. Why did you do that?

8^X

 

[PNW]

Really. Pro is going to grow without any promotion by Afilias. It's just a matter of confidence, like dot CO. They would have sold millions with or without the marketing. ......... Well you got me. April Fools back at ya!!

If the rest of your portfolio looks anything like the Pros in your signature, that's a problem. But if you have true confidence in the extension, what are you waiting for? Why are you holding onto those Pros? The only possible answer is that you invested in an extension in which you have no true confidence. Why did you do that?

8^X

"As far as I'm concerned the problems are lack of patience on our part and the lack of promotion and marketing by Registry.pro and now by Afilias."..."I believe now's the time to ease off of selling efforts (nothing but frustration) and keep a close eye on Afilias for the rest of the year." That is a contradiction to me and I stand by what I said.

I'm having less and less tolerance for this kind of BS. When you only have one possible answer you have blinders on.

I have generated good returns with .PRO names. The keywords were relevant and the end users found value enough to justify acquiring them. Since my sales volume is much lower than other extensions my confidence is not nearly as high. For instance I'd never come close to paying what I paid for your Aircraft name in .PRO. Which btw is the last name I buy from you.

The names in my sig are great keywords for certain businesses. That is the extent of my .pro holdings at this point. FYI I traded one of those keywords in .biz for $2000 worth of product; they were not interested at all in the .PRO.

I feel the same here:

...mainly been kept alive by nitro, defibrillators and BS sales reports. Oh, and denial which some of you know can be a real MFr to accept.

 

[JoeBiz]

I think that I said earlier that if you look back at my posts on this page and beyond you'll find nothing but positive comments. And I didn't pull those comments out of thin air or disinterest. I spend a great deal of time following Pro news and blogs. I also spend a Fortune on renewals because I own just a tad more than you seem to. And I purchased ProSites in an effort to promote Pros. I lived Pros 24/7 for at least two years. Now I have to make some steady money to prepare for retirement. I'm guessing that you're not in that situation.

If you're going to let the opinions of other Pro owners put you in Red Alert mode, you're not going to live very long. That's been a problem for me to this point. Sorry if I didn't address some of your comments above but I just skimmed your post. No offense but I've been reading Pro opinions for so long now that I usually just ignore them.

Have a good week Mr. A. :loveyou:

 

[mwzd]

Thanks for all the info and assistance people have provided by pm.

I've sent table.pro to auction at sedo, closes in 5 days or so.

It's worth many multiples of the current offer, but bills need to be paid, so...

 

[webdomain]

table.pro

great 2K initial offer!! congrats and hope it heads higher.

 

[mwzd]

The initial offer was $1k, this is the final offer.

I think the domain is worth $10k at the very least, the .com sold for $260,000 in 2007.

It's one of my top 5 .pros.

 

[JoeBiz]

Good luck with it. It's a great name. Sure would be nice to stir up a second bidder. Need to hunt up a Table convention!!