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]

Nippon = me

As I see - it was dropped...
Already reregistered by Jap...

 

[Fancy.domains]

As I see - it was dropped...
Already reregistered by Jap...

I have dropped about 25% of my .pro names. As with most extensions. I had it for sale for cheap, but no response.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Because .PRO was not supported by any registrar in Japan...
They just started...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

NOBEL.PRO (2009-2024) - Polish company number N...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

EMERGE.PRO (2009) - one more Dubai company...

 

[BrandPlease]

I like this one, although I'm doubting myself - or really I'm just too big of a geek.

Diffie.pro -- as in Whit Diffie. pioneer of public-key cryptography

But, not really sell-able (not sure Mr. Diffie would like, and outside a crypto reference there is no value, imo).

Hmmmm, might be worth checking to see if I can message him and donate the name to his foundation?

Maybe a nice mention or link?

Off to find Whit's email - I'll let you know next week if I hear back.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

@DnameAgame
His email is here: https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/whitfield_diffie

 

[BrandPlease]

@Jurgen Wolf Thank you much!

Ok, Stanford - maybe and honorary degree and possible speaking spot at the next graduation. Hmmm, a speech about domains and valuation to people (so many) way smarter than I.

My plan is starting to get shaky... HAHAHAHA

Going to email shortly and see if I get a response, will let you all know.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Diffie.pro -- as in Whit Diffie. pioneer of public-key cryptography

Whit is available...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

FIZI.PRO (2017) - NL-company number N...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

As I see - GoDaddy.PRO has been redesigned...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

This week I have 3 interesting buyers and I hope that at least 1 sale will be closed successfully...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Cinderella.PRO (2016) - nice enduser from California...

 

[nicedomains]

I opened green pro up for bids on flippa, the name currently forwards to the sale

This week I have 3 interesting buyers and I hope that at least 1 sale will be closed successfully...

Good luck! let us know which one goes..

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

PAULUS.PRO (2016) - Korean agency...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Pheenix today: SUMKA

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Just sold Margo.
.PRO + .info = 1K EUR
My Halloween offer for this French buyer... Already paid on Sedo, because Payoneer was rejected by him.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

So my finalized .PRO results for 10 months of 2017:
41 inquiries (up to $5K)
2 sales (~$1.3K per domain in average)

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

PRIYA.PRO (2012) - webdev from Mumbai...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Slight xxx domains netloss in October = 276.4K+ as of today...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.PRO 0.24
.org 1.51
.top 1.98
.com 2.35
.net 2.56
.biz 2.9
.info 3.43

 

[Jackie]

I have some names formerly with ELB.com that were (involuntarily) bulk transferred to Netissime.
Have a domain that is expiring tomorrow; want to transfer it out.
But they control panel doesn't let me unlock the domain - and NameSilo is telling me the Auth code is incorrect.

Anyone know how to do it?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

For me - also AUTHcode feature doesn't work... for any of my domains... even for active domains...
~14-16 hours ago I have opened a ticket - still no any response...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Per my previous experience with their Support - they may reply even after 2 and more days...
So if possible - call them by phone...

 

[Jackie]

Thanks for your quick comment @Jurgen Wolf
I renewed the domain with them for a year for 9.99 euros just in case support doesn't get back in time. It's an inexpensive peace of mind for what is a valuable domain in my view.
Hopefully support gets back to me. If not I'll need to call them and hopefully they speak English.