The .PRO Discussion

InvisionTech · Sep 17, 2008

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.

DOMAIN ILLUMINATI · Jun 26, 2016

thats.pro

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 26, 2016

So 4 days left to the end of Afilias .PROmo...
If it will not be extended - then standard regfee from July'1...

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 28, 2016

Site.PRO (2005) - Website builder...

WordWalker · Jun 28, 2016

menzl said:
There are also going to be many more extensions, some of which may have proven themselves through mass use/acceptance.

There is already MASS ACCEPTANCE and adoption of the keyword, "PRO". However, business leaders and business owners have not yet connected the dots between the immense popularity of the keyword "PRO" and the availability of the domain extension, .PRO.

Global conglomerates as well as smaller, independent companies currently use the keyword "PRO" more than any other generic, descriptive keyword or phrase to describe both product and service offerings. It doesn't get any better than that. Eventually, the connection between "PRO" and .PRO will be made.

When "PRO" is to the left of the dot, look at the continuing, yearly prices some of the newTLD registries have asked:

PRO.reviews $55K/yr.

PRO.news $55K/yr.

PRO.consulting $55K/yr.

PRO.cricket $11K/yr.

On the other hand, the renewal fee for NEWS.pro is only $15.00/yr.

Market inefficiencies create investment opportunities. As far as relative domain pricing goes, .PRO is currently bargain priced. That advantage will eventually be priced into the domain marketplace.

And if it doesn't happen, then we're all living on Bizarro World!

brandnow · Jun 28, 2016

WordWalker said:
There is already MASS ACCEPTANCE and adoption of the keyword, "PRO". However, business leaders and business owners have not yet connected the dots between the immense popularity of the keyword "PRO" and the availability of the domain extension, .PRO.

Global conglomerates as well as smaller, independent companies currently use the keyword "PRO" more than any other generic, descriptive keyword or phrase to describe both product and service offerings. It doesn't get any better than that. Eventually, the connection between "PRO" and .PRO will be made.

When "PRO" is to the left of the dot, look at the continuing, yearly prices some of the newTLD registries have asked:

PRO.reviews $55K/yr.

PRO.news $55K/yr.

PRO.consulting $55K/yr.

PRO.cricket $11K/yr.

On the other hand, the renewal fee for NEWS.pro is only $15.00/yr.

Market inefficiencies create investment opportunities. As far as relative domain pricing goes, .PRO is currently bargain priced. That advantage will eventually be priced into the domain marketplace.

And if it doesn't happen, then we're all living on Bizarro World!

I think it will all come down to trust.

If .pro becomes another spammy extension.. people won't trust it. Yes, it's been around since 2004? 2005? But .pro went away for several years and was not popular.. now it is coming back. But will it become a spammy extension or a good one?

Right now on Spamhaus, for example, it has 10% "bad" rating.. not too bad.. but could be better. Spamhaus is just one small way of measuring how spammy the extension is.

DOMAIN ILLUMINATI · Jun 28, 2016

When choosing a TLD we should not be to influenced by spam stats.
You can establish a trustful website= domain in every extension if you do it right.

BTW, my personal experience / statistic is, that .com is definitely the 'spam leader'.

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 28, 2016

Jurgen Wolf said:
Dynadot answered that all these backorders were not paid. So we already have at least 7 such deletions for the same Russian and he is not banned there... still alive...
The show must go on...

Jurgen Wolf said:
Today
Dynadot:
HELM

One more...

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 28, 2016

@brandnow I see a lot of .PRO-endusers everyday... The most of them are European...
If it is ignored by GoDaddy (unknown in the USA) - this is another theme...

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 28, 2016

Dynadot today:
kira (I guess will be deleted after 48h, see above)
tournament

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 28, 2016

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of now (less is better):
.org 0.14
.info 0.57
.PRO 0.70
.com 0.75
.net 0.75
.biz 1.43

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 28, 2016

Forgot about Pheenix of June'25: unknown.pro

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 28, 2016

Jurgen Wolf said:
So 4 days left to the end of Afilias .PROmo...
If it will not be extended - then standard regfee from July'1...

Extended to Dec'31.

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 28, 2016

I think $2.17 transfers to 1and1 must be extended also...

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 28, 2016

.PRO-backorders are still unavailable at SnapNames...
So no real competition for Pheenix...

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 28, 2016

WordWalker said:
the renewal fee for NEWS.pro is only $15.00/yr.

~$10 with proper registrar.

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 28, 2016

Linkedin.PRO will be deleted July'1...

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 29, 2016

IRON.PRO (2008) - nice enduser from Texas...

Beezy · Jun 29, 2016

Player.pro was at $945 with 15 minutes to go.

The auction didn't extend (so no bids in the last 5 mins) but i missed the closing price.

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 29, 2016

Did you bid on it?
If yes - you can see the winning bid via My auctions | Lost.

Beezy · Jun 29, 2016

Jurgen Wolf said:
Did you bid on it?
If yes - you can see the winning bid via My auctions | Lost.

Nah, but i had it on my watchlist and got the "15 minutes to go" email - and i logged in 1 minute too late to see the end.

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 29, 2016

This domain was also dropped by Campbell...

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 29, 2016

Fresh sale at Sedo:
custom.pro
4K EUR

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 29, 2016

Beezy said:
Player.pro was at $945 with 15 minutes to go.

The auction didn't extend (so no bids in the last 5 mins) but i missed the closing price.

Do you know how many bidders were?

Jurgen Wolf · Jun 30, 2016

Jurgen Wolf said:
Dynadot today:
kira (I guess will be deleted after 48h, see above)

Yes, as predicted, Nth-deletion (non-paid backorder by the same Russian).

Dynadot today: amor

Jurgen Wolf · Jul 1, 2016

As I see - standard regfee at Alpnames since today...

But still available for $1 with ELB.com

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