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.

 

[Archangel]

Anytime

And not bad, truly. I dunno what a .pro is truly worth bu if you can make money with one, then it's most certainly not worthless.

Randy, take care buddy and thanks for the good luck..sold 3 calendars today off the .pro site No joke.

 

[JoeBiz]

Have a good Thanksgiving Randy! And all the rest of y'all too.

8^X

 

[yesonline]

Just saw web 2.0 site workpapers.pro, very good use of dotpro.

 

[mitok]

I registered my first .pro domain! Thanks to some comments in this thread

I never thought about owning .pro, but decided to try with one. Domain is one word, profession, i would say solid domain and have some possible end-users in mind.

It would be appreciate if someone could also suggest some good place for reselling .pro domain to other domainers, if exists? Something other than Sedo, Afternic etc...something where .pro domains are in majority?

 

[netime]

For me,

dig google.pro

gives normal results.

Did you try it with different second level domains?

What is wrong? Can you explain your findings please?

Bug for A.GTLD.PRO rootserver is fixed!
Look!

http://freedns.afraid.org/domain/dnstrace.php?domain=google.pro&submit=Trace

Tracing to google.pro[a] via a.root-servers.net., maximum of 1 retries
a.root-servers.net. (198.41.0.4)
|\___ a.gtld.pro [pro] (192.149.62.10)
| |\___ ns2.google.com [google.pro] (216.239.34.10) Got authoritative answer
| \___ ns1.google.com [google.pro] (216.239.32.10) Got authoritative answer
|\___ d.gtld.pro [pro] (192.149.66.10)
|\___ c.gtld.pro [pro] (192.149.64.10)
\___ b.gtld.pro [pro] (192.149.63.10)

Domain Queried : google.pro

 

[mwzd]

netime, thank you for bringing this to the attention of the powers that be.

Am not too sure but think this will have a bearing on the seo of .pro domains in general, allowing them to be recognised as gtlds w/o geo implications.

I'm getting really tempted by some of the drops but am holding back till jan for the price drop, should be fun.

 

[JoeBiz]

It would be appreciate if someone could also suggest some good place for reselling .pro domain to other domainers, if exists? Something other than Sedo, Afternic etc...something where .pro domains are in majority?

Hi Mitok. Based on the posts above this one, it sounds like things might be moving in the right direction. I own a handful of Pros and thanks to the negative publicity that we've gotten lately, a lot of prime property is being dropped and the pickings have been easy. That being said, I don't believe that you're going to find a good place to sell them. Maybe someone here can correct me, but Pros are somewhat like the stock market when it's down. A lot of people sell off and run, while others see it as one gigantic sale. I see them as being on sale. But we're going to have to "Buy and Hold" for now.

I'm hoping that one of these guys will give you a better explanation. Lot of Mensa types drop in here every other day or so.

Best of luck !!!
Charles

8^X

 

[Londoneli]

The absolute only ones I've ever seen or heard of in my life were in NP. I've never seen a domain.pro ANYWHERE outside of NP. It's a domainer's extension, full of speculation and hope.

www.diva.pro ....

 

[DD.pro]

Hi PRO!

Very interesting post.
My few .pro-

archiver(.)pro
replayer(.)pro
layer(.)pro
bluff(.)pro
dekor(.)pro
rocker(.)pro
linguist(.)pro
pokerist(.)pro
cameraman(.)pro
webkiosk(.)pro
domainbrokers(.)pro

 

[b2b]

I'm quitting domaining, check these .pro's at unbelievable low prices:
http://www.namepros.com/domains-for-sale-fixed-price/689213-get-them-while-there-hot-pro.html

 

[Archangel]

...and you just told me in NP. I can't understand how ppl can't read my post and understand what the hell I meant by it. *rolls eyes*

www.diva.pro ....

 

[WebIntellects - Rob]

We have many clients with .Pro domains - there is no denying the fact that it will be a good idea to reg .PRO domains.

 

[webdomain]

.pro registrants

I think this is one of those extensions where nobody really talks about until one day a bunch of great sites start poping up. Like most good investments, the minute you hear it around the office is the day its too late to get in.

Good to hear .pro is building some steam.

 

[JoeBiz]

...and you just told me in NP. I can't understand how ppl can't read my post and understand what the hell I meant by it. *rolls eyes*

I know that you're trying to say that you heard about the Pro website while you were on NP. Well isn't that where you spend most of your time. And what possible difference could it make where you heard about the Pro site. And roughly how much time per day do you spend actively searching for Pro sites. None?

So I'll repeat ... where else in the world would you hear about a Pro site except on NP?

Lame point Randy.

 

[Kate]

You can try pretty much any keyword search in google, the odds you will stumble on a .pro domains are near zero. That's why people are not familiar with .pro. Of course, there are very few .pro registered compared to other extensions, but they are not exactly shining as far as SEO is concerned.

 

[webdomain]

But they are out there. Click to see google results

9,870,000 results

 

[webdomain]

finance.pro sold dnjournal.com $5,500.

wish they would have reported the sexo.pro sale, but guess it wasn't reported. But great to see .pro on the list.

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Akcampbell..Anxious for your take on the august registry report. I must be misreading the domains added portion of the report. 45,787 added? Is that a typo?

 

[Kate]

But they are out there. Click to see google results

9,870,000 results

LOL even site:.cc performs much better. For what it's worth...

 

[webdomain]

ok ok, didn't post that to say there were millions of .pro websites out there ahead of other extensions. Its obvious that .pro is a smaller extension. However, I did want to present that there are a growing number of developed websites out there in case people want to see other examples of .pro websites.

Here are google results to be more honest about where we stand in the big picture.


.me 132,000,000 results
.pro About 9,900,000 results
.cc About 1,030,000,000 results
.com About 25,340,000,000 results
.co About 157,000,000 results

 

[JoeBiz]

To quote a new acquaintance ...

"The dogs bark but the caravan moves on."

---------- Post added at 04:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:29 PM ----------

ok ok, didn't post that to say there were millions of .pro websites out there ahead of other extensions. Its obvious that .pro is a smaller extension. However, I did want to present that there are a growing number of developed websites out there in case people want to see other examples of .pro websites.

Here are google results to be more honest about where we stand in the big picture.


.me 132,000,000 results
.pro About 9,900,000 results
.cc About 1,030,000,000 results
.com About 25,340,000,000 results
.co About 157,000,000 results

One thing you're failing to account for is that for a large part of the past 18 months you could acquire Me's and CC's for pennies (and less). You're looking at the result of what happens when you give away a billion domain names to minisite mass producers.