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.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 18, 2019

So my recommendation: who has under 100 domains at Namecheap - transfer-out them all... don't wait...

p.s. $5 transfer to 1and1 still works...

MasterGuru · Aug 18, 2019

namecheap is BAD registrar....

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 18, 2019

Regarding the mentioned previously Undeveloped/DAN victims at Namecheap:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/da...e-official-thread.1148567/page-3#post-7357947

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 18, 2019

MasterGuru said:
namecheap is BAD registrar....

This is due to their $2.06
So as outcome - they have the largest share of .PRO regs... And the most attention from Afilias accordingly.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 19, 2019

Just detected XSERVER (not mine) - blocked even on its own nameservers...
The same Namecheap... 2 months old.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 21, 2019

Another bad news, at least for me, this summer is almost empty in terms of inquiries...
And probably, this "silence" is also related to the abnormal Afilias activity.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 21, 2019

Jurgen Wolf said:
So yesterday 2 more blocked by Afilias victims for me...
1 was registered recently and parked at ParkingCrew, another domain parked at Bodis (2+ months old).
Both domains at Namecheap.

Were unblocked today.
Spent almost 5 days.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 25, 2019

From my regular WHOIS observation, some US company regged MANY .PRO domains on GoDaddy this summer...
I have never seen it before.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 27, 2019

How this year performs for you?
For me, 2018 was definitely better in terms of demand and sales... At least comparing Jan-Aug period.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 28, 2019

I still don't understand: why to keep the domains at default Namecheap nameservers, where they show their parking template.
What chances to sell in this mode??? ~0.00 in my opinion.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 28, 2019

Too many newbies... unfortunately.

NYJimbo · Aug 28, 2019

I am not going to renew any .pro domains, not seeing much real views on the ones I have and no new inquiries for a couple months.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 28, 2019

Yes, I also noticed the significant decrease of inquiries since May...
Afilias operates in 2 modes this year: traditional lack of marketing + mass serverHold blocking.

But regarding traffic volume - I can't say the same...
It is trending up...

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 28, 2019

I have 800+ .PROs as of today.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 28, 2019

NYJimbo said:
I am not going to renew any .pro domains

This is not a problem...
Domainers from this thread + few Chineses are always ready to catch... like it happens daily.

griff · Aug 28, 2019

NYJimbo said:
I am not going to renew any .pro domains, not seeing much real views on the ones I have

I get more .pro views on Sedo than on the actual landers (barely any on the landers tho), never had that happen with any other extension. wondering if most .pro buyers are there

Jurgen Wolf said:
I have 800+ .PROs as of today.

Notice any trends in view/offer data with these, tech/geo/profession generating more views or lowball offers?

NYJimbo · Aug 28, 2019

Jurgen Wolf said:
I have 800+ .PROs as of today.

Great, when mine drop you can have them.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 28, 2019

Various inquiries...
From lowball and up to $5K...
Was even $10K US-inquiry on my Analytics...

Regarding Sedo...
Very weak botfiltering there.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 28, 2019

Regarding Geos...
It is hard to sell them regardless of TLD, except .com and domestic ccTLDs.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 28, 2019

My Geo results were already published ~3 years ago:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/the-pro-discussion.522420/page-251#post-5825439

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 28, 2019

Jurgen Wolf said:
Regarding Sedo...
Very weak botfiltering there.

To see your actual human traffic use ParkingCrew... or Bodis.

p.s. I use Sedo only for some BIN-domains.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 28, 2019

NYJimbo said:
Great, when mine drop you can have them.

What is your volume?

Average conversion ratio in .PRO was 1 inquiry per 20-30 domains in the previous years...
In 2019 - 1 inquiry per 40-50 domains. Thanks to Afilias.

Jurgen Wolf · Aug 31, 2019

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.one 0.08
.org 0.45
.com 0.52
.net 0.57
.PRO 1.26
.info 1.69
.biz 2.07
.top 2.3
.life 4.12

Jurgen Wolf · Sep 1, 2019

~700 domains netgain in August = ~299.4K

Jurgen Wolf · Sep 8, 2019

Who has WAND - serverHold on it...
As I see - it was transferred to 1and1... but transfer has no any impact on the blocked status at Registry level...

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