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.

 

[dotprofan]

This is sort of interesting - today I noticed that the russian search engine Yandex gives nice rankings for dot pro names when the keyword "pro" is used in the search. For example, go to yandex.com and do a search for "macbook pro", "gamble pro", "sushi pro" etc.. You'll see it tends to give the top result to the dotpro domain.

Yandex seems to be a major player in the Russian search market:

"Yandex (Russian: Я́ндекс) is a Russian IT company which operates the largest search engine in Russia (with 64% market share[3], ranked eighth-largest in the world[4]) and develops a number of Internet-based services and products. The company's mission is to give answers to users' questions (explicit or implicit).[5]

The Yandex.ru home page has been rated as the most popular web site in Russia.[6] Yandex is attracting more than 56 million users from all over the world.[7] The web site is also present in Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Another company, Yandex Labs, is a wholly owned division of Yandex that located in San Francisco Bay Area."

 

[JoeBiz]

A month or so back someone was looking into whether or not Pro had the same meaning in Russian as it does in English (or close). To the best of my recollection, it did.

Either way, any ideas on why Yandex would put more weight on the Pro extension?


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[gkjunior]

Auction - Now

At SEDO

closing.pro 1 bid $1,100

NICE

 

[Ben42]

TYou'll see it tends to give the top result to the dotpro domain.

This is very interesting actually. Anyone here own Vodka.pro? The .com sold to a Russian end user for about 5M I believe.

 

[JoeBiz]

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27 Pros Listed in the Fixed Price section.


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[SeniorLiving]

Has anyone kept a master list of developed DOT PRO domains?

Also, are there any bloggers dedicated to covering DOT PRO domains?

It would appear that the DOT TV community is well organized. They have sites dedicated to the extension that covers sales, news items, etc. Bloggers who cover topical issues, chats where the extension is discussed.

 

[mwzd]

http://en.wikipopia.org/toplist/alexa/pro

http://www.total.pro

You'll also find some older .pro availables lists on my blog: http://www.mwzd.com

 

[JoeBiz]

C-doo Numbers:

There are 9,200 Pros listed on C-doo. Out of those 9,200 there is only one at auction ... Closing.pro

Of the total 9,200, 420 have offers.

9,030 are listed as Negotiable. 1,220 of those are listed with a price. 7,810 are listed as Make Offer with no price shown.

There are only 151 listings set as "Buy Now." Of those, 22 are set at $10K (or $9,999) and only 6 have bids or offers. So out of 9,200 pro listings only 151 are listed with a fixed price.

Out of a total of well over 14,500,000 listings only 155 are at Marketplace Auction.

But there are 1,818,689 listings set as Fixed Price or "Buy Now." So ... all else being equal, you are eight times more likely to be "seen" with a Fixed Price. But that conclusion makes a lot of assumptions that aren't likely to fall together.

But you WILL be seen if you pay $39 for a Featured listing. The total number of Featured listings used to hover around 450. For the past year that number has been in the mid 300's ... to the best of my recollection. I personally don't use it anymore.

AND ... one of the three-letter sales is listed ... Bug.pro


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[hakita]

Interesting, thanks

 

[mr-x]

I missed the auction @ pool.com this morning. If someone could post the results it would make me happy.

 

[mr-x]

Self gratification:

fit.pro 3850 USD
ask.pro 4000 USD
eye.pro 1000 USD
dog.pro 1251 USD
ski.pro 1150 USD

My favorites are ski.pro and fit.pro.

 

[Ben42]

Those are good, but I think eye.pro is a steal. There are tons of optometrists that would love that name if they knew it existed.

 

[savvymarketing]

Great Sales and Visibility for .Pro!

I was surprised to see that eye.pro only went for $1K. I agree it was the buy. Could be turned for a profit quickly.

We have a great .pro, Repair.pro, asking 12K and have purchased to hold until this extension matures, which it will as single category killer keywords in other extensions continue to rise.

I believe the .Pro is a differentiating extension and exudes and demands PROFESSIONAL respect!

 

[mr-x]

If you think eye.pro was such a great buy, why didn't you bid?

 

[webdomain]

Guess you guys aren't seing eye to eye

 

[JoeBiz]

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fit.pro 3850 USD
ask.pro 4000 USD
eye.pro 1000 USD
dog.pro 1251 USD
ski.pro 1150 USD

My favorites are ski.pro and fit.pro.

I think DOG and EYE should have run away with it. $4000 for ASK is high IMO. Unsure about FIT. And I don't think that SKI is the best but it's a whole lot better than $1150.

Strange how low EYE, DOG and SKI went for. Not good precedents to set.

:ghost: my2c

 

[mr-x]

Strange how low EYE, DOG and SKI went for. Not good precedents to set.

These aren't end-use prices. Pool's audience are domainers / speculators looking for value.

.pro is unknown to end users and unpopular with domainers. To make matters worse, many common words don't make sense with .pro, i.e. "icecream.pro". Why spend thousands on domains that earn nothing and will likely take year(s) to sell?

Ask.pro is a great deal for a company looking for a strong web 2.1 brand.

 

[yesonline]

many common words don't make sense with .pro, i.e. "icecream.pro".

I think icecream.pro is a very good .pro name, most products are very good with dotpro.

 

[mr-x]

I think icecream.pro is a very good .pro name, most products are very good with dotpro.

What would you do with it? Open an ice cream store? Maybe sell supplies to people that sell ice cream?

 

[JoeBiz]

What would you do with it? Open an ice cream store? Maybe sell supplies to people that sell ice cream?

Sell it to Ben & Jerry's ... Breyers ... Edy's.