The .PRO Discussion

[InvisionTech]

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.

 

[Ben42]

There are two .pro's on Sedo auction.

Both are non-english keywords. It seems the seller must have found some international buyers. Goes to show that .pro is PRO in just about any language.

https://sedo.com/auction/detail/anuncios.pro/43481_us__

https://sedo.com/auction/detail/mascotas.pro/43503_us__

 

[Terrains]

nice pickups fcud

 

[InvisionTech]

Its been about 12 days since I placed orders at Hostway, they are still pending. I called them many times, sent emails. I called them today and I was told they will resend the activation links (although the domains are still pending orders in their system, I usually get the AV links AFTER those are gone from pending orders list).

Lets see what happens.

Network solutions has it together better than the people who own the registry, amazing.

 

[MasterGuru]

There are two .pro's on Sedo auction.
Both are non-english keywords. It seems the seller must have found some international buyers. Goes to show that .pro is PRO in just about any language.

If it's not a fake bids........
Time will show.
Let's see status for these domains after 2-3 months

Its been about 12 days since I placed orders at Hostway, they are still pending. I called them many times, sent emails.

I think we should not expect to freeload here...
Also tryed to call them again, but there is no answer in 20 minutes...
$15 is nice, but it's not working
Registrars makes their profit from air..... In my opinion real reg. price should be in $5-$7 range.

 

[InvisionTech]

If it's not a fake bids........
Time will show.
Let's see status for these domains after 2-3 months


I think we should not expect to freeload here...
Also tryed to call them again, but there is no answer in 20 minutes...
$15 is nice, but it's not working
Registrars makes their profit from air..... In my opinion real reg. price should be in $5-$7 range.

Yeah, well these 15 names that are in pending orders are stuck in time. They charged my credit card, the whois under my name but I can't do anything with those domains as they don't show up in the site control.

Other 10 names that are active, seems to be working fine.

I agree, the prices will have to come down further around 9.99 area.

Btw, what is the reason to charge high prices for .PRO? The assumption that .PROs will be registered by professionals and companies which make money so they "should" be able to afford to pay a little more than others? I don't see any other reason to pay more... especially, when nothing is being done to promote .PRO into the extended internet/business markets like .mobi/.info were.

 

[Ben42]

I think Netsol is doing a good job promoting it. They are at least offering it as an option to businesses looking for names. It's a start, and the ones still using Netsol are our end users, so they are targeting the right audience.

As far as prices go I think they see the TLD as a luxuary item. Extra work needs to be done like submitting License info and training customer support as to it's rules. I don't see the price coming down much more for now. The good thing is that it's down over 70% from what they used to be!

 

[MasterGuru]

Yeah, well these 15 names that are in pending orders are stuck in time. They charged my credit card, the whois under my name but I can't do anything with those domains as they don't show up in the site control.

It's good news, because it's better to have domains in whois under yourself name (even if you are not having them under your control panel) in comparison to see free whois or whois with another person name
I thought that .PRO registrations are impossible with Hostway
So we know now that .pro registrations are possible with this impossible registrar
And in my opinion $15 for .pro with hostway turned to a big lottery - the domain may be register with you via Hostway, but it also can be register faster with another guys who are using another registrars What's your opinion on this?

Other 10 names that are active, seems to be working fine.

My real congratulations!

I agree, the prices will have to come down further around 9.99 area.
Btw, what is the reason to charge high prices for .PRO? The assumption that .PROs will be registered by professionals and companies which make money so they "should" be able to afford to pay a little more than others?

It seems to me that people from .PRO having exactly this opinion that you saying. Professionals can pay more money

I don't see any other reason to pay more... especially, when nothing is being done to promote .PRO into the extended internet/business markets like .mobi/.info were.

And btw, we forgot about other thing:
at present time we are registering .pro domains by spade
$20, $25 are prices for the first year with 60%-70% discount,
for second it should be $34-$40.... (maybe even more)

 

[zuriko]

Spasibo. Privet, Zuriko. Privet, brat.

privet dorogoi! my nic on domenforum.net = zuratv

 

[Terrains]

i really hope they start to promote .PRO like the others, the INITIAL goldrush is just about over anyway

 

[AndyR]

Hostway.co.uk seem far quicker than Hostway.com, you pay a little more but it may be worth it?

andyr

 

[akcampbell]

It's still cheaper and just as easy to use DomainPeople. I registered 0800.pro this morning for £12.25, it would have cost £14 with Hostway.co.uk. It was even cheaper with DomainPeople last week when the GBP/USD FX rate was 1.75.

It seems ridiculous that Hostway.co.uk charge the equivalent of $23 compared to $15 at Hostway.com. Encirca and Godaddy just convert direct from USD if you want to pay in GBP which is much fairer.

 

[AndyR]

Pile.pro is under development, I have a start page, a bulletin board and a wiki all without content currently, but have a browse. I particularly recommend the deep template on the front of the site, credit to Vacant (Chris Blunden), http://www.web-site.tk Deep, version 1.5 also on OSWD.

andy

 

[InvisionTech]

Picked up:


Residence.pro (not as good as home/hotel, etc. but good alternative)

 

[Terrains]

that is a good pickup, might have to reg the real estate ones on my list

 

[zuriko]

Advocacy.pro

Advocacy.pro
What do you think guys?

 

[InvisionTech]

Anybody else seeing this?

In Network Solutions, once you click on manage a domain there use to be a "Submit Your Business License Information" link but it is not showing up there anymore...

 

[mjs]

.PRO still offers wealth of opportunity

I just picked up Listings.pro off of the Recent Deletions list. Is it a realestate.pro? No, not even a close second or nth, necessarily, for that matter. But it is a solid keyword just the same, flexible, highly subdomainable, the subject of a few offers on Sedo, taken in every other tld, and $24.95 at Encirca. As a domainer, I've had better days. But all things being equal, I've certainly had worse. Go PRO!

 

[Terrains]

i think listings.pro is great, you'd be surprised how often that word is thrown around in real estate, certainly more than other "key words"

 

[akcampbell]

I noticed Tailor.pro is at auction on Sedo for $350. It was only regged on 8 Sep.

 

[zuriko]

Commercials.pro
advocacy.pro
any idea?