I think the registry would prefer for you to just wonder and marvel at the extension and forget about asking intelligent questions.
Could you please articulate a few of these intelligent questions?
In my opinion, it is now time to do a mass purge and remove these TLDs from your accounts. I see a great drop trend on the horizon. IMHO
Right, just like people should do in all extensions except for .com?
I would not consider this a positive indicator as it suggests a loss of demand.
You do realise than .coms went from $50/yr to $6/yr? Registrations went up 100 fold. Why do you think it will be different for .pro?
When demand drops so does price. A good example would be the cost of dial-up networking. As the demand reached zero, so did the price.
I personally think of .pro like 4G, not everyone gets it, yet, but that's fine.
To make money in business you have to be ahead of the curve, not picking up crap in .com as most of the followers seem to be doing.
If you can get any of the keywords in .com that you can in .pro, you'd be looking at six figures, at the very least.
And therein lies the opportunity.
What you are seeing with .PRO is the final stages before the entire collapse of reseller market value. As I have previously stated, this is probably one of the worst investments on the face of the Earth.
I also own .gd domains, if .pro is the worst... wonder what you'll say about that?
The expedited development of a comprehensive exit strategy would be something that anyone reading this might consider. IMHO
They might consider building a cave home in a mountain to try and survive the upcoming end of the world on 21/12/2012 but most sane people don't.
It is difficult perhaps to see, but from my side of the fence, things are looking awfully bleak for .PRO.
What is your side of the fence? .Com leftover land? I really hope you get something from Verisign for all your trashing of most extensions, specially with a 1000 more coming out soon, would be a terrible waste of time otherwise.
There are extremely few good domain investments at this time. Most all domains are bad investments currently.
I agree with this completely.
Actually it's the other way around, most of the crap is in .com, just because the numbers are that much higher - 100 million domains, you can be sure less than 1% are worth five figures or more and most of those were registered before 1996.
The internet is both expanding and contracting simultaneously. Internet traffic is increasing as independent development is declining. There is a consolidation underway with things moving to NetFlix, YouTube, and Facebook like sites.
The internet is not contracting at all. I think you should fire the person who supplies you with stats, they're probably high on your supply too.
Guess we should inform all the startups they shouldn't bother since the Internet is focussing only on the 3 sites you're mentioned.
Just fyi, I've never even visited netflix, just like a majority of the non-US based Internet user base, which might surprise you to learn is actually many multiples of those in the US.
There is no reason for .PRO and now that the registry has "sold out" in terms of its commitment to the integrity and professionalism of the brand, it's clearly "Game Over" for this lowly TLD. IMHO.
Lmao, right, keep telling yourself that and stick to pumping also ran .coms that you couldn't get reg fee for, we'll stick to the domains that make us money, irrespective of the extension.
I've made money in .tv, .co and even .ag, guess I shouldn't have bothered since they're not worth anything in the 'real' world where people only buy crappy .coms, right?
And though I haven't made major profits in .pro it's mostly because I've priced myself out of the current reseller market for the most part.
Even table.pro is worth, imho, at least 5x of what I'm selling it for and I'm sure the buyer will prove me right, pretty soon.
I think people like you are actually good for domain investors with vision, means less competition.
