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.

 

[zuriko]

developed big finance platform HyFi.pro
https://hyfi.pro/#/en

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I see many domains on Efty...
How are your results there, does it convert?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Update the expired nameservers for PLUG and other similar domains transferred from PDR/ResellerClub.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I have set the symbolic $2028 Sedo BIN on my LosAngeles (2012).
If anybody...

I just checked the same .ONE - it is available for ~$550-600/yearly.
FYI

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

~200 domains netloss in September = 264.8K+
Q3/2021: ~2.4K domains netloss.
YTD: ~3.7K domains netloss.

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.PRO 0.12
.org 0.18
.com 0.64
.net 0.97

 

[DNGear]

~200 domains netloss in September = 264.8K+
Q3/2021: ~2.4K domains netloss.
YTD: ~3.7K domains netloss.

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.PRO 0.12
.org 0.18
.com 0.64
.net 0.97

Out of 264K i have 1.5K

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

i have 1.5K

I have ~10 times less.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

When you check just keywords - by default @Dynadot shows many unwanted TLDs like .SBS, but completely ignoring .PRO for years (where stable enduser demand and traffic).
True idioti.sm

~0.00 support from GoDaddy as well...
& no banners, no GoDaddy Auctions listings, no even expired auctions (they just drop).

@Joe Styler

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Just rechecked GoDaddy searchbox...
As of today they show available .PROs when looking for keywords, at least for my location...
The only one change from the mentioned above.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And only among available TLDs.
If .PRO is taken and listed via Afternic - they don't show/offer it.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Pheenix domains still exist, I still meet their .PRO domains with frozen Expiration dates like 2018...
Why they are alive and were not dropped/removed by Afilias - I don't understand...

Pheenix was terminated recently by ICANN.
And looks that their domains were moved to EnCirca and some of them dropped.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Like Pheenix, tons of former ELB domains still exist as well...

At least part of them was dropped recently, after a few years of abnormal renewals...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

@zuriko
serverHold on Negotiation...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7936#c0

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7936#c0

@DNGear
Very probably, .xyz is penalized as well.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7936#c0

According to Bill's comment: mail-tester.com is using the outdated SA...
I have informed them as well.

 

[DNGear]

Power.pro sold for 19888 usd @Afternic

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Congratulations!

It was $19,888 BuyNow (no negotiations), right?

 

[DNGear]

Yes. BIN.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I have seen many such domains, so again: never mix nameservers...

Just 1 example: screens
Name Server: NS3.MYHOSTADMIN.NET
Name Server: NS4.MYHOSTADMIN.NET
Name Server: NS1.DAN.COM
Name Server: NS2.DAN.COM