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.

 

[webdomain]

Great looking site....Great Domain! You hit a chord with me as I love sailing. nice job.

 

[dotprofan]

Launched my first fully developed .pro in a while. Link in my sig, feedback welcome!

Love the sail.pro site - looks terrific!

 

[mwzd]

Sail.pro is a very nice site, love the layout and colors.

Well done Ben42

:tu:

 

[b2b]

Launched my first fully developed .pro in a while. Link in my sig, feedback welcome!

Very nice clean site!
Did u dev this yourself?

 

[Ben42]

I did not dev it all myself, if you want more info on my designer let me know.

 

[InvisionTech]

Good one Ben. I love the logo! Please see the site in IE 8.0... I think there might be something wrong with the menu part (its fine in Firefox)!

Now only if you still had Scuba.pro to go with it. :D :p

 

[Ben42]

Now only if you still had Scuba.pro to go with it. :D :p

Burn! :lol:

I might have to try to buy that back eventually.

 

[webdomain]

.Pro pretty slow in Jan. Anyone seen anything going on to report?

 

[steveteva]

.Pro pretty slow in Jan. Anyone seen anything going on to report?

Well, last sold was Electrical.pro for $1475 on SEDO.

 

[AndyR]

.Pro pretty slow in Jan. Anyone seen anything going on to report?

Pile.pro just sold $300.

I have raised the bar on soil.pro to $1000 asking.

andy

 

[candycandy]

.Pro pretty slow in Jan. Anyone seen anything going on to report?

Puertorico.pro just sold at $ 550 in cax.com

http://www.cax.com/puertorico.pro

 

[JoeBiz]

test

:ghost:

 

[akcampbell]

Total .pros registered in October 2010 rose by 2% from 50,128 to 51,114. There were some interesting trends within the overall 2% rise. Registrars I classify as Other in my registrar pie charts rose by 17.3% in the month whereas established .pro registrars like Encirca, Network Solutions, Gandi, DomainPeople, and OVH fell by 0.8%. Within that group OVH is the only one making any progress with .pros registered up 5.6% in October. Encirca .pros have fallen for 4 months in a row. I am not convinced charging 50% more to renew a .pro than to register it is a logical pricing strategy if a large % of your customers are domainers. Psychologically and economically, it makes dropping easier. Within the Other category the fastest growing .pro registrar is the Russian registrar RU Center. They have .pro listed as newly available and .pros registered have increased from 0 to 1,698 in 2 months. As far as I know Pro means about or you in Russian. Can anybody confirm that? Do Russian speakers recognise a Pro as an expert?

 

[JoeBiz]

Help!!

I need a dot pro name for a Pro portfolio site, and I would love some suggestions. I have been planning on using Gott.Pro. Actually I don't know how important the name is for a portfolio site as long as it sounds nice.

I'm trying to find out if it's legal for me to offer an incentive, like a free pro, to go to the person whose suggestion I end up using. Does anyone know if that's legal???

Tin Queue

Charles


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Total .pros registered in October 2010 rose by 2% from 50,128 to 51,114. There were some interesting trends within the overall 2% rise. Registrars I classify as Other in my registrar pie charts rose by 17.3% in the month whereas established .pro registrars like Encirca, Network Solutions, Gandi, DomainPeople, and OVH fell by 0.8%. Within that group OVH is the only one making any progress with .pros registered up 5.6% in October. Encirca .pros have fallen for 4 months in a row. I am not convinced charging 50% more to renew a .pro than to register it is a logical pricing strategy if a large % of your customers are domainers. Psychologically and economically, it makes dropping easier. Within the Other category the fastest growing .pro registrar is the Russian registrar RU Center. They have .pro listed as newly available and .pros registered have increased from 0 to 1,698 in 2 months. As far as I know Pro means about or you in Russian. Can anybody confirm that? Do Russian speakers recognise a Pro as an expert?

Andrew. Many thanks for your dedication to the Pro extension and the hard work :talk: that goes along with it. The cohesiveness that you provide is an invaluable asset and I / We very much appreciate it !!!

Pros :kickass:

Thank You !!!


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[akcampbell]

I sold Taxi.pro for $7,500 to a Moscow taxi company. I reported it to RJ at DNJournal.

 

[Kate]

Congratz

 

[mwzd]

Congrats Andrew, what happens when you have top generics, good sale.

Think they got a bargain tbh, the numbers are off the charts.

Another day, another .pro in use, always a good thing. :tu:

 

[Ben42]

Congrats Andrew.

Anyone know how much the last 3 letter auction .pros went for?

 

[webdomain]

I sold Taxi.pro for $7,500 to a Moscow taxi company. I reported it to RJ at DNJournal.

Did you ask them what .pro means in Russian? I haven't had a chance to ask my friend who speaks russian yet. Great news!

Also, I fired an email to registry.pro advisory board as they are meeting soon. I want to push the issue on restriction requirements. Here's a copy of what I sent:

I'm interested in knowing if the .pro registry board is looking at removing the professional restrictions in the future. I hear ICANN is set to introduce an unlimited number of extensions onto the market and worry this will hurt the .pro, (also .travel and .biz names too)

Many domain people that I speak with online at forums such as namepros.com, domainstate, ect.. say that the restrictions are the reason not to buy .pro as they feel it inhibits growth.

I would think that if ICANN will now allow unlimited extensions and with extensions competing directly with .com such as .co for example there would be more opportunity to have them removed to order to establish a more level playing field among all the extensions out there.

I've always thought .pro was a great extension and restriction removal would really unleash significant growth in the extension going forward.

I'd appreciate any insight you could provide regarding this.

I encourage others to do the same by emailing:

[email protected]

Who knows they might listen?

 

[JoeBiz]

Nice Andrew !!! One of these days you'll have to show me how to do that. :talk:


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