Total .pros registered to April 2012, excluding zip .pros, increased by 6.5% in the month to 105,554. Average daily WHOIS searches increased 13% to 86,885. Year on year total .pros registered are up 65.3% and average daily WHOIS searches are up 194.9%. Hover.com is the fastest growing .pro registrar with total registrations up 29.5% in the month to 1,527. Encirca is still the biggest .pro registrar on 20,392 .pros followed by RU Center on 17,357.
The $3.49 EnCirca promotion is great. I just found 3 (THREE!) single keyword domain names of pretty good quality for re-sale, surprisingly. I would have thought that all three of them would be long gone. So there's still some gold in them hills and at $3.50 a pop if there was ever a time, it is now.
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FYI, it looks like my LLC qualifies for .PRO registration based on the
requirements I see:
http://Total.pro documents the basic requirements:
1. Provide professional services
2. Admitted to or licensed by a government certification body or jurisdictional licensing entity recognized by a governmental body that regularly verifies the accuracy of its data.
3. In good standing with the licensing authority.
The following business license information is required*:
· First Name (or company/organization)
my llc name
· Last Name (or company/organization)
leave blank
· Date of Licensure
date LLC was formed
· Type of Profession
custom software services
· Jurisdiction Country
my county
· Licensing Authority
my state
· License Number
State registry # for LLC from licensing site
· Licensing Authority Website
State business licensing site URL where LLC
was formed ($100/yr filing/renewal fee)
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Look at
http://registry.pro front page, on their website. That picture says it all.
Rich white male snobs. That's what their image seems to convey.
That's their target audience and the people they seem like they're
trying to impress or woo.
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.PRO extension - Where grey haired professionals meet grey area rules:
Look at Encirca's $3.49 .PROmotional write up:
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EnCirca calls all the following professions to take advantage of this low price: Lawyers, Accountants,
Engineers, Doctors, Architects, Dentists, Educators, Chiropractors, Veterinarians, Surveyors, Plumbers, Inspectors, Investment Advisors, Real Estate Brokers, Insurance Brokers, Nurses, Opticians, Optometrists, Podiatrists, Psychologists,
Therapists, Social Workers, Building Contractors, Electricians, Patent and Trademark Examiners, Court Reporters, Police and Fire Safety Officers
and any other profession where an official credential is required for a business or individual to offer services.
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So a software engineer with an LLC? Licensed sexual massage therapists? Professional broccoli chopper with a $39 state notary license and an unused notary pad? A dog walker with a city business license? A forum comedian determined to mock hypocritically snooty authoritarianism by finding loopholes, such as a gov't license of any sort?
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You can have FlibbertyGibblet.PRO if you are a licensed Investment Advisor!
Because there is a well-established link between the two professions!
You can have Software.PRO if you are a notary public, but not if you are
a professional software engineer with decades of professional software
development career work in senior positions at corporations.