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.

 

[MasterGuru]

One more example: RESOLVE

strange things happens

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

~1.2K domains netloss in June = 267.2K+
Q2/2021: ~300 domains netloss.
YTD: ~1.3K domains netloss.

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.org 0.18
.PRO 0.4
.com 0.63
.net 1.22

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

On Sedo I see tons of domains with fixed price of 5,500 GBP. Just the same price for all regardless of keyword.
And offers are not allowed.
Does this model really work for you???

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

+ Sedo parking lander with sales text at the bottom of page.
Or ZeroClick redirects to 3rd parties...

All conditions for no sales - in other words.

 

[DNGear]

Which sales lander would be best @Jurgen Wolf? No parking ads.

Thanks

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

On Sedo I use Sales Lander v1.
It also prevents ZeroClick redirects - if you forgot to disable it per your account (via ticket).

 

[DNGear]

Thanks Jurgen.

Sedo, dan, afternic which sales lander would be best, as per your observation?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

My country is banned by Afternic's firewall for many years.

Among Sedo, DAN, Epik landers - the best conversion I get on Sedo.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

From my observation, more and more endusers (like KENT) transfer their domains to CloudFlare...
Do you know CF transfer fee?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Their profit is 0 according to https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
But I didn't try.

 

[DNGear]

I haven't used it.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I will try CF after my next sale...
Currently no budget for such activity.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

2 recently reported transactions:

CONTACT (2007)
1,840 GBP
private

TEAM (2005)
3.5K EUR
Sedo

 

[Rammbo]

Diem.pro .

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Like Pheenix, tons of former ELB domains still exist as well...
Just 1 example: BOUND

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I begin 2021 year with 250 domains .PROfolio...
And no plans to go above this level.

155 remain after 1st half.

 

[cdboard]

how many were dropped?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I decrease my .PROfolio in size a few years already...
I don't see any significant reasons to monetize Afilias like crazy.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

~2K domains netloss in July = 265.2K+
YTD: ~3.3K domains netloss.

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.org 0.19
.PRO 0.36
.com 0.71
.net 1.28

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

From my observation, more and more endusers (like KENT) transfer their domains to CloudFlare...

They also register with CF...
For example, recently somebody from TR regged PANTHERA up to 2030.

 

[pathfinderbeacon]

I don't know if this is the place to post, but I own proofreader.pro, which I think is a really good one!

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I don't know if this is the place to post, but I own proofreader.pro, which I thing is a really good one!

You can also reg proofs, it is available.

 

[zuriko]

2 recently reported transactions:

CONTACT (2007)
1,840 GBP
private

TEAM (2005)
3.5K EUR
Sedo

Yes, I sold Contact.pro

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

The only one offer for me during this summer, the worst summer ever...
And it wasn't from enduser, but from US domainer on Sedo (he offered $300).

 

[DNGear]

Sales are very dull this year. I have been renewing around 1000 domains