The .PRO Discussion

Highest bid I had on Dan last month: 300 EUR

Do you know what happened with .PRO Registry?
Trying to register communicatiebureau.pro domain, it dropped today. According WHOIS it's not registered, but if trying to register it - domain is not available. Very strange thing

Nothing happened with Afilias...
I just checked another drop today like settings - it is regged on GoDaddy.

Ask Dyna directly...
Sometimes connection issues there... and not only to Afilias...

I can confirm that Afilias blocks the domains listed in SURBL.
Keep this in mind.

.pro dropping time is changed?

DNGear said:

.pro dropping time is changed?

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Now the same drop .PROcedure as Afilias uses for .ORG

Jurgen Wolf said:

I begin this year with 800+ domains .PROfolio...

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430+ after the 1st half of 2020...

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.PRO 0.15
.org 0.18
.com 0.44
.net 0.46

~1.7K domains netgain in June = ~282.8K
Q2/2020: ~300 domains netgain.
YTD: 6.8K+ domains netloss.

Who has Monte (was caught in March on Dynadot) - serverHold there.

1and1 added Bulk NS...

Sedo reported $4K transaction of People (regged since 2005)...

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.org 0.12
.PRO 0.23
.com 0.46
.net 0.52

~1.2K domains netloss in July = 281.6K+

Just sold BERLIN (2006) for 849 EUR BIN (my absolute minimum), already paid.
Parked it on Sedo ~2 days ago, previously was silence on Dan.

p.s. My 2nd .PRO sale in 2020.

Jurgen Wolf said:

Just sold BERLIN (2006) for 849 EUR BIN (my absolute minimum), already paid.
Parked it on Sedo ~2 days ago, previously was silence on Dan.

p.s. My 2nd .PRO sale in 2020.

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Congrats
Some days ago I reg. SolarHome
Maybe dropped by a NP member

ArielT said:

Some days ago I reg. SolarHome
Maybe dropped by a NP member

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It was dropped almost 3 years ago according to Whoisology.
Don't bet on 2word.PRO endusers... they are very rare on aftermarket.

Jurgen Wolf said:

Just sold BERLIN (2006) for 849 EUR BIN (my absolute minimum), already paid.
Parked it on Sedo ~2 days ago, previously was silence on Dan.

p.s. My 2nd .PRO sale in 2020.

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Sedo transfer agent just said that the buyer is experienced and purchased several domains before - so looks like another domainer.

WHOIS is updated already...
According to my research the buyer is gorilla-domains.de

One of my recent Bodis inquiries was some Australian company... they were ready to pay ~$4K for my .PRO
But finally decided to go with another name... because the owner of keywordPRO in .com.au asked too high price (~$8K).
They need 2 domains. And their budget is not unlimited. So I lost this good deal due to some idiot.

Jurgen Wolf said:

One of my recent Bodis inquiries was some Australian company... they were ready to pay ~$4K for my .PRO
But finally decided to go with another name... because the owner of keywordPRO in .com.au asked too high price (~$8K).
They need 2 domains. And their budget is not unlimited. So I lost this good deal due to some idiot.

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What extension they went for the other domain?

Good luck for the next one

ArielT said:

What extension they went for the other domain?

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I don't know these details.
I only know that they were ready to spend even ~$5K per .com.au (regged ~2 weeks ago) - but its registrant asked strictly ~$8K.
They want to have both domains: .PRO and .com.au
So my negotiations and deal were lost.

Another case was in July...
Some Danish company offered $1K via Epik lander...
I emailed them with my price and additionally asked their Best Offer for consideration - and silence... they disappeared...
After ~2 weeks they replied that other .PRO domain was purchased for their new business.

+ 3rd failed case...
Some Russian company informed me via WHOIS email that they will NOT pay to Dan their $1K marketplace bid...
They were ready to proceed only via REG.RU brokerage.
It was in July.

p.s. 2020 is my worst year ever.
At least for its 8 months.

Jurgen Wolf said:

p.s. 2020 is my worst year ever.
At least for its 8 months.

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a lot of people are thinking that