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.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Guys, how is it possible? :
I see that some domains are registered via Dynadot and after some time I see that the same domain(s) was registered via other registrar

Explained above.
+ you may notify Dyna-team about such unfair behaviour as well...

 

[Jackie]

Well the domain tasters pay $1.00 drop fee and they can't do it anymore after the drop rate for the month has reached 10% right? How is this unfair? If anything, I see it as a huge waste of the tasters' money.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

This drop rate is not per user but per all regs by all users...

 

[Jackie]

Right, it is # .PROs deleted / # .PRO registered at Dynadot for the month.
If people "abuse" the privilege, Dynadot will simply raise the drop fee to equalize supply/demand for grace deletions. .com and other popular extensions are already at $3.00 and its quelled much of the bulk vacuuming and dropping that was prevalent before.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And I don't see any waste here for him...
If $2.99 is credited then reregistered for $1 - it means that this snapping actually costs $2 per domain utilizing Dyna-API ($1.99 saving per each domain)... That's why it is unfair and abusive also.

 

[Jackie]

From an API perspective I see your point.
Are you running into a lot of issues with throttling when using the API for drop catching?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And we are talking about Dyna-API only...
At least 1 month already I see this behaviour daily!

 

[Jackie]

If you can't beat them why not join them.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

The most recent sample: HOSTED.PRO

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

If you can't beat them why not join them.

I can beat, but I don't delete my .PROs when snapped with @Dynadot.
This is a difference between us.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Somebody is trying to login into my ELB-account...
Don't waste your time... 2F-auth is enabled there, no chances for you.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Fresh sale via Sedo:
coupons.pro
$3.8K

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Already sold 4 cities: Lviv, Bordeaux, Lille and Montpellier...

It was a few years ago for high $xxx per domain in average...
And last week I sold 3 more French cities in a bulk to another investor for 400 EUR per pack (my special offer for him).

 

[MasterGuru]

It was a few years ago for high $xxx per domain in average...
And last week I sold 3 more French cities in a bulk to another investor for 400 EUR per pack (my special offer for him).

Do you know why the new policy of .PRO country names is affected?
(I mean why ICANN/.PRO registry decided to put freeing country names to reserve? )

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/tlds/pro/pro-agmt-html-01oct15-en.htm

nTLD-Registries also have similar Agreements where they are reserved as well.
No any specials here.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And it doesn't affect Native names of countries...
Only EN-spellings are reserved.

 

[MasterGuru]

https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/tlds/pro/pro-agmt-html-01oct15-en.htm

nTLD-Registries also have similar Agreements where they are reserved as well.
No any specials here.

I read this page but I did not understand the REAL reason for this....

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Ask ICANN...

 

[MasterGuru]

Ask ICANN...

Definitely! But it always going for ages to get an answer from ICANN), that's why I asked here)

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

No... they answer within hours/days... at least my friend had such experience with ICANN.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

2009: LEXIS.PRO + SYNTAX.PRO = 2 PROjects by enduser from Porto...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I can beat, but I don't delete my .PROs when snapped with @Dynadot.
This is a difference between us.

+ per my research, he uses at least 3 @Dynadot accounts simultaneously (3 or even more API-keys for him)...
I use the only one.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Robson.PRO (2015) - one more BR-enduser...

 

[DNGear]

Rocking Alex.

 

[DNGear]

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