.Pro reg prices falling...

[mjs]

I just regged a .Pro domain at Encirca. There were no sale signs, but the domain did ring up at $75. I also came across an article that speaks of further discounts down the line. http://iwi.gandibar.net/post/2008/07/18/PRO-Pre-reservations Let's hope these are indications of much more to come.

 

[mwzd]

Woohoo!!!

$75 renewal is better than $99 renewal.

If they get it around $25 I'll probably get a few dozen more too!!

What does this mean -
"As a reminder, .PRO domain names are not registrable by private persons."

Does it mean you have to be a company?

Is LLL.pro being released too?

 

[weblord]

this is the updated terms for prospective registrants

4. Who can register a .Pro domain name?
At this time, only members of the medical, legal, accounting and engineering professions, licensed in the United States, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom, are eligible to register .Pro domains. It is the responsibility of the registrant to provide truthful and accurate information about their professional status when registering a .Pro domain name.

The .Pro professional eligibility requirements are intended to restrict domain name registrations to persons and organizations that are licensed or otherwise credentialed by the appropriate government agencies or organizations to provide professional services to the public in the legal, medical, accounting and engineering fields.

http://www.registrypro.pro/support_faq.htm

What does this mean -
"As a reminder, .PRO domain names are not registrable by private persons."

Does it mean you have to be a company?

Is LLL.pro being released too?

 

[mjs]

What does this mean -
"As a reminder, .PRO domain names are not registrable by private persons."

Does it mean you have to be a company?

Not sure what the author was attempting to communicate, but clearly, private persons who otherwise meet professional elgibility requirements may register .Pro domains.

 

[Hurley4540]

Hopefully this goes much lower!!!!

 

[mwzd]

this is the updated terms for prospective registrants

Not been updated afaik, because its now worldwide eligibility or will be soon as per the last communique.

 

[akcampbell]

$75 is better than $99 but it's still 5-10 times overpriced and .pros were $49 for a period after launch.

The 75% off is interesting if it leads to a permanent 75% price cut but if not, virtually everything that gets regged will drop in 2009.

 

[dotprofan]

I think the price drop is a step in the right direction.

 

[yandig]

I just got an email stating that starting today, encirca was charging only $49 for new second-level .pro registrations.

EnCirca slashes .pro domains by 50%
EnCirca celebrates the re-launch of .pro with special landrush pricing!
Starting July 21 at 12:00 pm, new second-level .pro domain names are available for just $49 !!!
Businesses and individuals must have a professional license to qualify.
Calling all architects, teachers, brokers, building contractors, financial advisors, lawyers, dentists, health care providers - all invited to join in!

 

[mwzd]

Are they doing anything about the LLLs & the renewals?

 

[Ben42]

So far the only thing I've heard is that there will be a NNN.pro auction, but so far nothing on LLL.pro.

Also, it looks like they have not modified the system. Renewals are still $75 and not $50.

 

[ulasbbtr]

I think it is 75$ for proforwarding and 49$ for private person registrations. I actually didn't understand who are those private persons?

 

[akcampbell]

$49 new .pro reg fees didn't start a landrush before and I very much doubt it will work now with the global economy heading towards recession and more and more extensions like .asia and .me appearing.

.pro needs permanently low prices to be able to compete against other alternative extensions, not temporary discounts against ridiculously inflated $99 reg fees.

Why would anybody pay 5-10 times a .com price for something that isn't worth developing because nobody has heard of it? RegistryPro either have to spend $100m on marketing so end users know about .pro and accept it, or price .pro in line with other gTLD's and let the domain industry market it for them.

Godaddy are selling a .com for $6.99 and an SSL certificate for $14.99. That's $21.98 with global recognition for the domain extension AND SSL certificate issuer. RegistryPro need to price their bundled .pro and certificate to compete against that, and price in the fact that nobody has heard of .pro or RegistryPro's certificate.

RegistryPro still don't understand the dynamics of developing an alternative extension after 4 years of failure. You'd think that if something was proven not to work, like $49 temporary price promotions, they would try something else.

 

[onewordonly]

The price still needs to come down heaps yet before it will gain any interest in most people.

 

[Kate]

Totally agree with the above. RegistryPro has no clue.
The promo is good for those who are vested into the extension, other than that nothing's changed really.
Furthermore, the recent extensions like mobi or asia are much more promoted. Even in webmaster circles I see no mention of .pro.

 

[Jakey]

Although it is nice, it is still a bit steep for most of us unfortunately.

 

[Ben42]

Has anyone regged any .pro's because of the new price? I guess I should check Motion.pro (it lists all the dropped and new .pro reg's), but I'm a bit surprised nobody has posted here yet.

I for one have not registered anything new.

I checked motion.pro, at least on the first page today (and it's early) so far we have 5 created and 5 deleted.

CONDOS.PRO, FLORISTS.PRO deleted???? Wow!

Created: FIRE.PRO
July 23rd, 2008

deleted: NAMESHARE.PRO
July 23rd, 2008

deleted: EDDALE.PRO
July 23rd, 2008

deleted: FLORISTS.PRO
July 23rd, 2008

deleted: DATARECOVERY.PRO
July 23rd, 2008

deleted: CONDOS.PRO
July 23rd, 2008

created: OPTOMETRY.PRO
July 23rd, 2008


created: N2CT.PRO
July 23rd, 2008


created: ACTING.PRO
July 23rd, 2008

created: MYRESUME.PRO
July 23rd, 2008

 

[bocanames]

I'm not registering new ones. But I'm dropping FEWER because of the price reduction. As Kath said this has some effect on those of us with a vested interest - I changed my behavior slightly. But I can't imagine this having a significant impact on new registration activity. Hopefully I'm wrong, I'll watch the feed and see.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still bullish on .pro in the long run, but I'm still changing my definition of long.

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[hodgepodge]

.pro landrush domains not yet in zone file

Has anyone regged any .pro's because of the new price? I guess I should check Motion.pro (it lists all the dropped and new .pro reg's),

Just an fyi. The new .pro landrush domains are beging reg'ed without nameservers....so they will not appear at motion.pro until they get nameservers after september 8 and start appearing in the zone file.

 

[akcampbell]

Heal.pro, Fire.pro, & Forest.pro were all created on 23 July after new reg fees were reduced to $49. I can see them on Motion.pro. I regged Reviews.pro about 15 minutes after prices came down to $49, and that showed up on Motion.pro. I can go into my account and edit the Nameservers which are currently set to the encirca default.

It wouldn't surprise me if the registry blocked the creations and deletions RSS between now and 8 September because if everybody could see there were only 5 creations and 5 deletions on the day reg fees went down to $49 they would realise the relaunch was going to be a complete disaster at $49 and wait until reg fees came down much further which they will have to do to kickstart any sort of landrush.