The .PRO Discussion

And don't forget to disable Email Monetization in your ParkingCrew account settings:
https://www.parkingcrew.com/manage.php?mode=settings

Jurgen Wolf said:

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.

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Namecheap >>> 3.06

As of today - $2.99 at Dynadot is the lowest I see...

Jurgen Wolf said:

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

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In September I don't see any positive changes as well... unfortunately.

Please help evaluate the domain tele.pr0, received an offer of 3K on Sedo. To sell or not?
Thank you.

Try to negotiate higher... sell - if cashflow is critical...
That domain has 5F potential definitely.

Who transferred the expired PDR domains to 1and1 - change nameservers from PDR to your preferred NS...
Already have seen many such domains with inherited expired NS.

As I see - many changes on SITE.PRO for the last few years...
They are growing definitely...

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.one 0.1
.org 0.15
.com 0.44
.net 0.58
.info 0.75
.PRO 1.34
.biz 2.67
.top 2.72
.life 5.27

~4K netloss in September.

Total Q3 change: ~290K >>> 295.4K+

Jurgen Wolf said:

11 victims for me at Namecheap for the last ~100 days...
And I'm not sure that this number is final...

p.s. Looks like real war of Afilias VS Domainers...

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I have detected 12th today.
My recent reg at Namecheap ~3 weeks ago...

12th case at Namecheap was relatively fast, spent ~1.5 days to unblock it.

Also NC team forwarded this Afilias reply:
the domain was listed by Spamhaus for spam activity on Sept 13th, 2019. The listing was removed on Sept 27th, 2019

It was regged on Sep'11 and parked @ParkingCrew

Just found ENVOY (not mine) with serverHold... was regged at Namecheap in June...
Parked @Sedo

I have rechecked ENVOY at https://www.spamhaus.org/lookup/
And as 95%+ of all other victims - it is NOT blacklisted.

So real nightmare with this trio Namecheap/Afilias/Spamhaus.
Even if Spamhaus adds and then (auto)removes the domains from their blacklist - it has no any effect on Afilias, which blocks in automode but removal of serverHold is manual only.

And all victims are (almost) always under Namecheap.
So don't register any domains there - the best solution to prevent such issues.

I see the only one realistic reason - some IP addresses are blacklisted by Spamhaus...
And when Spamhaus bot detects any domains on those "bad" IPs - they go to their blacklist (DBL) as well...
And then using Spamhaus DBL - Afilias bot blocks them (serverHold)... and Namecheap domains - their primary target.

I have asked Namecheap few times to investigate these issues deeply... to stop these continious troubles...
But from their replies I understand that their motivation is ~0, they can only communicate with Afilias regarding the already blocked domains and that's all.
And NamePros is also not interesting for NC... ZERO reaction... even their representative is absent here.

Jurgen Wolf said:

And NamePros is also not interesting for NC... ZERO reaction... even their representative is absent here.

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And for Afilias as well.

Jurgen Wolf said:

Namecheap domains - their primary target.

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In other words - NC doesn't want to answer on the quoted question... why they have so low reputation in Afilias/Spamhaus eyes...

Hundreds of my .PRO domains with another registrars... which are parked the same way - and 0.00 victims.

@matt_bodis @ParkingCrew @Sedo
If it is possible - please ban Spamhaus bots on your firewall.

Interesting archived article: https://news.softpedia.com/news/Spamhaus-We-Blocked-Google-Docs-Not-Gmail-153093.shtml
So as you see, they can blacklist even Google IP ranges...

I also asked NC to send my feedback to Afilias... they definitely should stop the usage of Spamhaus blacklists.
Those BLs are very unreliable... too many FALSE alarms.
And I don't know any other Registry (Verisign, Neustar, Donuts etc.) which relies on Spamhaus... For ~11.5 years I never had problems with NON-Afilias domains.

Interesting handreg of 2015... and very probably - it was sold and details are unknown...

Domain Name: NUMBERS.PRO
Registry Domain ID: D107300000001414349-LRMS
Registrar WHOIS Server:
Registrar URL: http://www.cscglobal.com/digitalbrandservices
Updated Date: 2018-10-23T06:19:45Z
Creation Date: 2015-11-16T18:52:03Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2019-11-16T18:52:03Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date:
Registrar: CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 299
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:
Reseller:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Registrant Organization: Apple Inc.
Registrant State/Province: CA
Registrant Country: US
Name Server: NSERVER.APPLE.COM
Name Server: NSERVER2.APPLE.COM
Name Server: NSERVER3.APPLE.COM
Name Server: NSERVER4.APPLE.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form is https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2019-10-04T04:25:44Z <<<

If some LA endusers here, I listed it with BIN: https://sedo.com/search/details/?domain=losangeles.pro

It is almost impossible to see/find any .PRO domains @Sedo using their searchbox for just keywords (1 word)...
They rank .PROs at the bottom or even on next pages...
And even BIN doesn't help to be higher.

Chances to find - only if you search for the complete domain name like EXAMPLE.PRO

So for most scenarios - no any reasons to use their marketplace at all, just waste of time and money.

Jurgen Wolf said:

It is almost impossible to see/find any .PRO domains @Sedo using their searchbox for just keywords (1 word)...
They rank .PROs at the bottom or even on next pages...
And even BIN doesn't help to be higher.

Chances to find - only if you search for the complete domain name like EXAMPLE.PRO

So for most scenarios - no any reasons to use their marketplace at all, just waste of time and money.

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And that's why they report just few sales per year... Usually they were done via their escrow or if domain was parked there (inbound buyers).
Actually: ~0 enduser sales on their marketplace yearly.