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]

Yes, I also guess, that for some unknown reason Afilias doesn't like ParkingCrew... especially if those domains are under high-risk registrars by their opinion.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

The most realistic version: some @ParkingCrew IPs are blacklisted...
If the domain resolves to those IPs during the automatic check by Afilias - they block it.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I never had this issue at Namecheap in the past...
Probably, because my default nameservers for registrations were set to Bodis...
In ~April I have changed my default settings to ParkingCrew and problems began...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

serverHold has been removed today by Afilias.
I spent 8 days on this issue.

Unblock of another 8 domains is still pending...
5.5 days already via Namecheap...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Another 8 domains have been unblocked today.
After 1 week.

Afilias also said that those domains were blacklisted by Spamhaus and that's why Afilias blocked them.
I really don't understand why they blacklist the parked domains... especially when they were parked in the past as well (prior their drop) and traffic on them is ~0 - so it looks like TRUE IDIOTISM.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.spamhaus.org/lookup/
I just rechecked all these 9 victims - and none of them are listed in DBL.
So really strange blocks...
99% - this issue is regarding the blacklisted IP-addresses.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Regarding @ParkingCrew
I didn't receive any results of their internal investigation, 1 week elapsed.

I guess, some of their IPs were blacklisted due to Email monetization feature.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Regarding @ParkingCrew
I didn't receive any results of their internal investigation, 1 week elapsed.

I guess, some of their IPs were blacklisted due to Email monetization feature.

Just received their response:
We look into this. Regarding email monetization, we don't offer email monetization any longer.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.one 0.06
.org 0.17
.PRO 0.56
.net 0.64
.info 0.81
.com 0.85
.top 2.71
.life 4.11
.biz 5.71

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

4K+ netloss in May = 291K+

 

[NYJimbo]

Just picked up DebtHelp.Pro for $1.88, it expired this morning. Might be worth something.

 

[artstar]

ok this threads been going for 11 years! wow

so whats the biggest .pro domain sale to date? anyone?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

The biggest publicly known was:
GO.PRO
$40K
Feb'2012, Afilias/GoDaddy Special Auction

 

[artstar]

The biggest publicly known was:
GO.PRO
$40K
Feb'2012, Afilias/GoDaddy Special Auction

jeez 7 years ago. whats the point in .pro then?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

The same point as for other TLDs with good conversion ratio like .net/.org

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And this was already posted, but I can repeat...

From what I see and including own experience:
Majority of .PROs are selling within $500-$2K range...
Strong keywords - up to $5K...
The best - up to $25K...

 

[jmcc]

Surveyed all the legacy non-COM gTLDs (31,496,397 domain names) in May 2019. The results are still going through the final processing but these are the preliminary results for .PRO

Content: 11.07% (Signs of development)
No Content: 42.52% (Hold/Not Found/PPC/Sales etc)
Templated Content: 1.27% (Landers/affliates etc)
Redirects: 21.56%

10.13% of sites redirect to HTTPS version.
13.75% are PPC.
2.01% are sales.

Content, redirects and some other categories are still being processed but the above gives some general indications as to the state of the gTLD web usage and development.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

A few .PROs which were sold by me in 4F range - still at parking or registar nameservers...
Many buyers purchase the domains just to have or redirect them... and/or to develop in future...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I work with WHOIS daily...
Per my observation, no more than 20 domainers actively invest in .PRO

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Regarding fake bidders at Dynadot...
Since last weekend Dyna requires min $100 balance to bid on backorder auctions...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Yesterday I have contacted https://www.logicboxes.com/support/
Long ticket... but finally they removed my former ELB domains (Dec'2016-2017) which were abnormally renewed again and again by Magic.fr
This also helps to stop the various email reminders from LogicBoxes... even for those former ELB domains which are available...

 

[DmitrySV]

Is it possible to contact .PRO owner? the only service to dig into .PRO registry seems to be https://whois-pro.com and it emits only the "name" - no email, contact form, etc

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Check registrar's whois-server directly to get the contact details... no other way.
On Linux it can be done like that:
whois example.pro -h whois.namecheap.com

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Some registrars can also show the contact details when checking on their websites...
Example for NC domains: https://www.namecheap.com/domains/whois/

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

$1.99 at name.com