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 · Feb 6, 2020

Ranking on UniRegistry Market is not ideal but good, at acceptable level.
.PRO can be found by endusers without efforts.

MasterGuru · Feb 6, 2020

Do you know if someone from IONOS (1and1) here on this forum?
This is very strange registrar - they did not have opportunity to change ns-servers for domains in bulk mode
(all registrars provide this opportunity, except IONOS...)

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 6, 2020

I already answered on the previous pages that Bulk NS in their roadmap...
When it will be available - it is unknown...

Currently, you may ask solutions AT ionos.com to update it in a bulk.
Send from your account email address...

They don't use NamePros and focused on endusers, not on domainers.

MasterGuru · Feb 6, 2020

Jurgen Wolf said:
I already answered on the previous pages that Bulk NS in their roadmap...

Looks like "Bulk NS" implementation was stuck for ages in IONOS...

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 6, 2020

Send your feedback...
The more feedbacks/requests - the better...

Per my feedbacks they already implemented Bulk Unlock...
And AUTH codes you can export as well in a few clicks...

MasterGuru · Feb 6, 2020

Jurgen Wolf said:
Send your feedback...
The more feedbacks/requests - the better...

Per my feedbacks they already implemented Bulk Unlock...
And AUTH codes you can export as well in a few clicks...

I'm writing every week from 2015 year to IONOS to implement "Bulk NS change"

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 6, 2020

To their regular Support? This staff has no any impact on their development/growth...
Send to the mentioned Solutions department...

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 6, 2020

@Sedo
See above and please ask your registrar ionos.com to implement Bulk Nameservers...
All domainers need this feature.

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 7, 2020

Jurgen Wolf said:
Ranking on UniRegistry Market is not ideal but good, at acceptable level.
.PRO can be found by endusers without efforts.

Live example...

MasterGuru · Feb 7, 2020

Jurgen Wolf said:
To their regular Support? This staff has no any impact on their development/growth...
Send to the mentioned Solutions department...

OK. Let's do together send this request (implement "BULK NS changing") to solutions AT ionos.com every week

Another f%^ing thing with IONOS - it's impossible to turn auto-renew in "OFF" mode...
I wrote many times to Solutions, they accept this problem, but nothing changed from their side
Looks like this is marketing trick from IONOS

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 7, 2020

I don't have any problems to turn Autorenewal OFF...
I do this operation a few times weekly in a bulk at contract.ionos.com

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 7, 2020

Don't use Firefox - use Chromium based browsers...
Don't disable any types of cookies and deactivate your adblocker (if any).

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 7, 2020

MasterGuru said:
OK. Let's do together send this request (implement "BULK NS changing") to solutions AT ionos.com every week

I don't need Bulk NS so often...
I rarely transfer-in the expired domains with their "expired" nameservers.

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 7, 2020

And only number of customers is counted... how many customers ask it...
No any reasons to repeat requests from the same person... they are not counted.

Joe Styler · Feb 8, 2020

Jurgen Wolf said:
Really strangely...

@Joe Styler
See above about Vanilla...
And is it so hard after ~16 years to add full support of .PRO on your Auctions platform?
Mission impossible or you just hate Afilias, or what???

It is not impossible and of course we do not have any bad feelings towards Afilias but we have a lot of requests from customers and things we ourselves would like to do and only so many resources to get things developed. It is a decent amount of work and has not made it to the top of our development list against other priorities. I do not see it happening any time soon.

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 8, 2020

@Joe Styler
Are you aware that mid XX,XXX .PRO domains are under GoDaddy and you lose the dropped domains without any .PROfit?
Because no any expired auctions...

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 8, 2020

@jmcc
How many .PRO domains GoDaddy has as of your most recent data?

Joe Styler · Feb 10, 2020

Jurgen Wolf said:
@Joe Styler
Are you aware that mid XX,XXX .PRO domains are under GoDaddy and you lose the dropped domains without any .PROfit?
Because no any expired auctions...

Yes but it goes back to my point. If we have a limited amount of resources we cannot do everything. We can only do what we have the resources to do. We prioritize those resources based on 2 main factors. Customer satisfaction and Return on Investment for the P&L. If we have other projects that will make a few hundred thousand or a million customers happier we prioritize that over ones that will help a couple hundred or thousands of customers. If we have a project that can make us millions of dollars we prioritize that over ones that can make us thousands. It would be irresponsible of us to act otherwise.

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 11, 2020

Joe Styler said:
Yes but it goes back to my point. If we have a limited amount of resources we cannot do everything. We can only do what we have the resources to do. We prioritize those resources based on 2 main factors. Customer satisfaction and Return on Investment for the P&L. If we have other projects that will make a few hundred thousand or a million customers happier we prioritize that over ones that will help a couple hundred or thousands of customers. If we have a project that can make us millions of dollars we prioritize that over ones that can make us thousands. It would be irresponsible of us to act otherwise.

I still don't understand - what resources are needed here...
All other Afilias TLDs are supported, even very minor in terms of their size - but only .PRO is excluded...
Donuts TLDs are offered on Auctions, but .PRO (significantly larger than almost all Donuts TLDs) is excluded...
Really abnormal case... no doubts here.

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 11, 2020

I understand only regarding .TOP
Where GD is not even accredited after 5+ years.

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 11, 2020

Such changes Epik does within days or maximum weeks...
But for GoDaddy even ~16 years are not enough...

@Rob Monster

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 17, 2020

Like @ParkingCrew, @Dynadot is also Amazon based...
So don't park/forward there - if Russian buyers are important for you...

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 17, 2020

Jurgen Wolf said:
Ranking on UniRegistry Market is not ideal but good, at acceptable level.
.PRO can be found by endusers without efforts.

If BIN is set.
If just MakeOffer - Uni ranks .PRO somewhere at the bottom of the offered results per keyword.

@Quintin

jmcc · Feb 19, 2020

Jurgen Wolf said:
@jmcc
How many .PRO domains GoDaddy has as of your most recent data?

From the October 2019 registry report: GoDaddy.com, 41,098
Will post the .PRO data from 01 February 2020 later tonight.

Regards...jmcc

jmcc · Feb 19, 2020

01 Feb 2020
Total domaincontrol.com: 33,343

(New all: 44,432)
New domaincontrol.com : 5,188

(Deleted all: 56,626)
Deleted domaincontrol.com: 5,941

Regards...jmcc

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