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]

My wife's name

Catch ratio regarding Personal Names is ~50% per my daily monitoring.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Afilias optimized the NS change recently... Now effect is almost instant.
Previously delay in propagation was ~5m.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

HASH.PRO mining is already running...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

$0.99
name.com
I guess, this price will be active this week only or maximum until Jul'31.

>>> $1.99

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I very rarely see UK bidders regardless of TLD...
But this week 2 British offers (mid $xxx) on my .PROs - I rejected them.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Recent known sale via Sedo:
GIFT.PRO (2005)
$4K
British buyer.

And congrats to @mwzd again! )

 

[nameaura]

i sold getnow.pro 2 year ago for $210 at afternic

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

name.com
>>> $4.99

So $2.06 at Namecheap is the lowest again.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And last 10 days at current Renewal/Transfer rate...
+$1 on Sep'1.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

One more known sale via Sedo...
EVOLUTION.PRO (drop of 2017)
$3.5K
Looks like Chinese buyer...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

According to NameBio - Afternic doesn't report any .PRO sales since Q2 2012...
So some of them you can find in this thread only.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

So GoDaddy ignores .PRO not only on their Auctions but even in reports... this gTLD doesn't exist for them.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Many my sales via Sedo (escrow OR marketplace) are absent on NameBio regardless of TLD...
And I don't understand "why"...
So even known/public Sedo stats is just partial...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

The only one possible answer here: Buyers have "Private" option on Sedo - ON/OFF
And if it is activated - then Sedo doesn't report anything.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

One more known sale via Sedo...
EVOLUTION.PRO (drop of 2017)
$3.5K
Looks like Chinese buyer...

And looks like one more cryptosale...

 

[DNGear]

where did you see that @Jurgen Wolf ?

It was mine.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

where did you see that @Jurgen Wolf ?

It was mine.

Here: https://www.thedomains.com/2018/08/21/sedo-weekly-sales-led-by-shakti-com/

And my congrats again! )

 

[DNGear]

Oh..it was listed in namebio after 1 week. I just see that.

 

[DNGear]

Did you observe any .change in pro deleted timings? They have been releasing 2 hours later than usual. Why is that?

 

[DNGear]

Just kidding, Why did you run the auction for 1 or 2 hours and grab it while i am asleep?

Everything dot pro

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Because Afilias removes .PRO/.info/.io - in parallel...
So total time to process all 3 TLDs may be up to 2h... if many .info are dropping the same day...

I have no any relations to everything.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I have rechecked NameBio venues - and I don't see Undeveloped there...
So their sales are also hidden.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Looks that one more $2,995 BIN-sale this week via Uniregistry...
I know this from my private communications...
Social term...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Looks that one more $2,995 BIN-sale this week via Uniregistry...
I know this from my private communications...
Social term...

Via their marketplace listing...
This is not SedoMLS or AfternicDLS - because both are not supported by Uni.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.one 0.12
.PRO 0.16
.org 0.26
.com 0.56
.net 0.94
.info 0.97
.life 1.46
.biz 3.32
.top 5.4