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]

.com is from another galaxy... and it was launched in 1985...
It is not comparable TLD at all.

And ~99% of domainers are ignoring .PRO
So don't expect that all drops will be immediately caught... But really strong and the best - definitely.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

No more than 20 real investors here (for many years or at least since 2015)... per my own monitoring...

 

[maksimfa]

Outsider, Murka, and Vidd .... all in Pro. Fresh dropped today.

LondonCity is still avail...
RootCanal.pro was dropping but looks like they renewed.

 

[maksimfa]

Nevermind... LondonCity is not. =)

 

[maksimfa]

Spade.Pro should be avail later perhaps.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Spade.Pro should be avail later perhaps.

It has been caught instantly.

 

[maksimfa]

I checked them all at 5 AM.... so 4 hours ago and they were still listed. It seems the drop happened right around 6AM eastern and I was able to register the 4.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Drop is starting at 10:05 UTC...
.PROs are deleting in parallel with .info

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Afilias is processing these 2 TLDs via single operation...
So if too much .info deletions on the certain day - then .PRO dropwindow will be longer as well...
Up to ~30 min. to delete them all.

 

[maksimfa]

thanks for the info!

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

So my finalized .PRO results per 1st half of 2017:
21 inquiries (up to $5K)
1 sale ($2K)

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.PRO 0.2
.org 0.76
.com 1.09
.net 1.61
.info 1.67
.biz 4

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Last month for .PRO overall:
256K+ >>> ~267K

p.s. ~1.95K domains my .PROfolio as of now...

 

[maksimfa]

Last month for .PRO overall:
256K+ >>> ~267K

p.s. ~1.95K domains my .PROfolio as of now...

2k domains? congrats.

On what percentage annually do you get offers? sell?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

As I already said above, avg. conversion ratio annually is 1:40-1:50...
1 inquiry per 40-50 domains...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

p.s. I don't sell my domains cheap...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And this ratio de facto is without GoDaddy...
With FULL GD support it can be increased to 1:20-1:30... I'm sure on 99%...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

.PRO Transfer-ins are already available at NameCheap?
If Yes - what price?

No, it is still not supported by NC.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

p.s. I don't sell my domains cheap...

It means: no less than high $xxx...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

My highest .PRO offer ever was $10K from the USA...
For my analytics...