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.

 

[4pm]

bought daytrading.pro recently
not sure about the potential but still like the name+ext feel/look

 

[maksimfa]

bought daytrading.pro recently
not sure about the potential but still like the name+ext feel/look

I think it is a great domain. What do you want to do with it? Flip it or develop it? I can easily see it being turned into a forum or for an expert advisor.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

$2.99 Reg @Directi

www.resellerclub.com/pricing

 

[4pm]

I think it is a great domain. What do you want to do with it? Flip it or develop it? I can easily see it being turned into a forum or for an expert advisor.

thanks

flipping is ok but with .com/net/org on sale .pro seems to fall into long term investment basket...
forum would fit too but would probably require too much effort to promote/maintain. simple news feed looks like an option for initial ranking though..

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

$9 Transfer @hover.com

Use 10% OFF promocodes: www.retailmenot.com/view/hover.com
Worked for me.

EnCirca, Bye Bye!

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

del

 

[maksimfa]

Ok, so I am new here and finally found a home for my small obsession.... hoarding domain names.... I am at about 60 domains, and just purchased another 10 .Pro domains for $2.99 deals.

I think it is an amazing extension, however after doing some research... I am actually troubled at one thing.... 95% of .Pro domains I have seen, are owned by domainers, and out there to be sold. Only 2 developed domains from what I saw.... truly developed by the end user.

If the vast majority of the domains are owned by the domainers... it will be that much tougher to get people to start accepting that anything.pro is a legitimate site.

Anyone track the stats for developed domains on the .pro and versus others like .us, .biz, or what not.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

See more at https://www.google.com/search?q=site:pro

 

[webdomain]

There are hundreds of companies developing on .pro sites. I wouldn't worry about that. But developing .pro domains is really important so you are very right to be asking about it.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

tender.pro (2005) - russian B2B PROject.

 

[maksimfa]

There are hundreds of companies developing on .pro sites. I wouldn't worry about that. But developing .pro domains is really important so you are very right to be asking about it.

Its a serious issue. For instance... .Pro has been around 4 or 5 years now.... how many legit Fortune 500 companies operate primarily out of a .pro? Probably none.

I see the developed .Pro are either redirects or small startups. The vast majority of all .pro I visit are landing pages for Sedo to sell.

Over the past few days I picked up about 15 .pro domains, some off of the expired list, a few others hand reg, pretty much all great domains with the intent of developing them.

My full time business is financial services, so about half of the domains are totally amazing domains.... just .pro. =P They WILL BE developed. I just wish more professionals would actually do it..... and not a "professional" domainer. :sold:

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

maksimfa, read www.namepros.com/522420-the-pro-discussion-158.html#post4356287
And think about: How many TOP Registrars provide .PRO (including local markets)?
At now - ZERO .PRO Registrars in Poland for example.

 

[maksimfa]

I understand that GoDaddy is not a registrar... but even bigger ones like name.com are letting you do it. If there was enough demand for .pro, godaddy and others would provide it, the issue I see... there is very little awareness for it, and because very few on a percentage basis are actually developed, it is not helping to fuel it.

I personally plan on developing at least 5 very soon, as a add on to my financial services business.

...and I do see a lot of Russian .pro domains. =)

(and yes... I am Russian speaking.... from Odessa)

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

GoDaddy - Registrar #1: www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global/
name.com is #25!

p.s. The same thread about .PRO in russian: http://domenforum.net/showthread.php?t=88556

 

[JoeBiz]

I understand that GoDaddy is not a registrar... but even bigger ones like name.com are letting you do it. If there was enough demand for .pro, godaddy and others would provide it, the issue I see... there is very little awareness for it, and because very few on a percentage basis are actually developed, it is not helping to fuel it.

I personally plan on developing at least 5 very soon, as a add on to my financial services business.

...and I do see a lot of Russian .pro domains. =)

(and yes... I am Russian speaking.... from Odessa)

I think you might be putting the cart before the horse. First GoDaddy has to become a registrar for .Pro, then market it, and then the demand follows. imo

How do we get GoDaddy's attention ... in a large way?



8^X

 

[Kate]

Enom is a .pro registrar, but you have to dig their site real hard :ghost:

I guess the registrars cannot efficiently promote dozens of extensions at the same time. Choices have to be made.

Front window promotion (or the lack thereof) is going to be the major issue for the upcoming new TLDs. Only a few will be able to stand out.

Imagine if Godaddy presents you with a huge table with 300 different TLDs.
People would run away.
But they are perfectly capable of pimping individual TLDs one at a time: first .me then .co etc.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

GoDaddy >>> more .PRO sites/emails in USA/Canada >>> more demand on .PRO regardless of any "TLD-tables".

Enom is a .pro registrar

eNom works via his resellers, at now .PRO is ignored by most of them (Namecheap for example).
.PRO has been discussed by me and Namecheap today…
So I'm waiting for good news in the near future…

 

[webdomain]

Thanks Jurgen for the russian forum link. Here is the google russian .pro forum translation. I can only imagine that .pro will emerge as a leading extension in the near future as I think it is being more recognized in russia and europe than the US.

---------- Post added at 07:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:06 PM ----------

Maybe some of you have seen this, but DomainIncite published this (and hey they are smart enough to own domainincite.pro)

"I understand that cleaning up and reinvigorating .pro’s image has been put firmly on the Afilias agenda in recent months. It’s a great string, and I reckon it could do well with the proper marketing." Read full article here on .pro domains

 

[4pm]

i bought stocktrading.pro on snapnames several days ago.. i was the only bidder @49.. pretty sure even in .us or .biz there would have been more interest, sad fact for the extension
daytrading.pro had bids but only 1 bidder went over $100 - snapnames also

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

As of July 2012, over 160,000 .PRO domains have been registered by users all over the world. Moreover, it has seen an immense growth in monthly additions by achieving an average of 6,500 .PRO domains registered every month.
http://blog.logicboxes.com/2012/08/06/pro-now-available-on-orderbox/

---------- Post added at 01:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:30 PM ----------

i bought stocktrading.pro on snapnames several days ago.. i was the only bidder @49.. pretty sure even in .us or .biz there would have been more interest, sad fact for the extension
daytrading.pro had bids but only 1 bidder went over $100 - snapnames also

Read carefully: www.namepros.com/522420-the-pro-discussion-158.html#post4356287
You can buy even 1-word .PROs for $49 on snapnames (EnCirca's expired .PROs).
Nothing new for me.