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]

Recent AfternicDLS Sale

picpros.com $2,200

 

[JoeBiz]

Thank you for that factoid. :tu:

But I was referring to professionally developed sites with practical function, substance, and purpose. The majority of .PRO sites that I've seen were created by speculators of the extension.

And of the 500 developed sites you have examined five? Ten?

Have a nice Saturday Greg.

 

[webdomain]

picpros.com $2,200

Just shows you how pro is used often in advertising. Great marketing word!

 

[Ben42]

I made a substantial investment in the development of sail.pro. Admittedly, selling right now at a resellers fee I'd take a huge loss. Still it has been consistently growing in the serps and at this rate I may break even in monetization in about 5 years.

It's partly my fault, I live in a place where you can really sail only 3 or 4 months out of the year and it's not a huge passion of mine. Otherwise I'd be updating the site more.

I especially like .pro as an email address. [email protected] sounds way better than [email protected] or pretty much any ext including .net and .org IMO.

 

[JoeBiz]

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In case you missed it this is an AP piece that was published a few days ago. The headline contradicts the bulk of the story ... IMO

Internet Address Expansion Coming Despite Worries
AP Janick Jesdanun

 

[webdomain]

I think even though we all seem upset at how the GoDaddy auction is taking place, I still think its a positive for .pro as it raises exposure. I notice that the multiple bidding is putting many of the .pros on the most active board. So, people not familiar with .pro may be taking notice. Maybe its the best marketing the .pro registry can do.

 

[Jawed]

So far the auctions have been disappointing. Still 2 and half days to go. Let's see if something dramatic happens.

 

[gkjunior]

I just cant stand it any longer....so I will post this thought that has been bugging me for quite a while in regards to .pro

It was quite the scene when the re-launch of .CO happened. Million dollar add campaign with most of those efforts geared towards domainers. Before you knew it the .CO appeared as an add everywhere on the daily domain blogosphere. You can still see a .co add on FragerFactor

This on a domain extension easily confused by the average consumer as a .com ..... Regardless the domainers ( daily bloggers ) believed that the marketing dollars behind this and the fact that it can mean "company" and not Colombia jumped on the marketing bandwagon and promoted mostly as self interest IMO to flip for a buck as sedo auction results show. Many keywords .co have recently sold for a few thousand dollars...I am however curious why these would not be held until an end user would easily pay 5- 10 times that if indeed .co becomes as popular as they say and if indeed it means company

.Pro as gtld is not easily confused as another extension by the consumer...is easily memorable by the consumer once they are trained to retain in memory the extension which as we see with the pending mega roll out of new extension by Icahn will become part of every new extensions campaign......"branding extensions" ( available in the .com )

I think many of us here understand that a memorable short generic domain name or a longtail domain name that studies show increase the likely of a click through is the one of the most undervalued and misunderstood Real Estate asset of our generation. If you want beach front property in Miami most of us will be out of luck...but there are other beautiful beach front properties that are expensive but with in reach of many....which at one time lots sold for hundreds of dollars

Most of us will NEVER be able to afford app.com or job.com or dudu.com

But as no_url_shorteners has shown multi million dollar business are been built on other extensions and they will continue to do so regardless of OUR disagreements of which extension is a good investment....see this blog post as an example

Developers will go where they can afford to buy land and with their vision will build a multi million dollar resort just as Developers will go to .pro .tv .me pick some undervalued beach front property such as app.pro and create another multi million dollar business...regardless of our thoughts about the extension

Once upon a time Daytona Beach water front meant staying at a 20 dollar a night motel and partying for a few bucks....that is until developers with vision came along and purchased everything in sight.

So I will conclude this too long a post by asking all that are complaining about the .pro beachfront at auction....is it the low prices that are troubling or the developers and investors that have shown up at a rate of over 400+ bids that many believe that no one wants this extension ?

 

[MicroGuy]

The problem with .PRO (along with the others) is that it's not needed. People don't want it and people don't need it. No mystery, just simple Econ 101. IMO.

 

[JoeBiz]

The problem with .PRO (along with the others) is that it's not needed. People don't want it and people don't need it. No mystery, just simple Econ 101. IMO.

I'll bet you're very familiar with that feeling...

But I still luv you Greg.

 

[Kate]

The problem with the .PRO auctions is that - imho - only the domainers will be paying attention.

Perhaps the domainers alone will be able to absorb all the names on auction (provided the reserves are not too high), but that should reflect on the average prices that might seem disappointing.

:imho:

 

[JoeBiz]

Fun with Factoids:

The word "Pro" is used at the beginning or the end of over 1750* dictionary words and two-word combinations. The extension also has roughly 500* developed sites in spite of the complete lack of marketing.

By comparison, the .Co extension was released with great fanfare, purchased by Overstock and Google,
and promoted from here to Timbuktu. And for all of their efforts the extension has yielded just 750* developed sites.

At a minimum that demonstrates that the .Pro extension has the ability to stand alone, for lack of a better term, and to do so without a billion dollars worth of advertising keeping it afloat.
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*The numbers used above are based on my ability, or lack of, to use the tools that were available to me. -


8^X

 

[gkjunior]

Fun with Factoids:

The word "Pro" is used at the beginning or the end of over 1750* dictionary words and two-word combinations. The extension also has roughly 500* developed sites in spite of the complete lack of marketing.

By comparison, the .Co extension was released with great fanfare, purchased by Overstock and Google,
and promoted from here to Timbuktu. And for all of their efforts the extension has yielded just 750* developed sites.

At a minimum that demonstrates that the .Pro extension has the ability to stand alone, for lack of a better term, and to do so without a billion dollars worth of advertising keeping it afloat.
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*The numbers used above are based on my ability, or lack of, to use the tools that were available to me. -


8^X

timbuktu.co is available....but taken in other extensions

 

[JoeBiz]

timbuktu.co is available....but taken in other extensions

Well let's drive on over there and give 'er a look-see before we make any crazy investments. Grab a map please. ...



8^X

 

[webdomain]

We'll the industry has just taken notice.


http://www.thedomains.com/2012/01/1...ains-have-bids/comment-page-1/#comment-101516

Please post professionally.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

nkvd.pro - Web Hosting Company.

 

[JoeBiz]

We'll the industry has just taken notice.


http://www.thedomains.com/2012/01/1...ains-have-bids/comment-page-1/#comment-101516

Please post professionally.

That's nice! Thanks Dubya.

Any idea what kind of readership they have?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

profinish.com $1,305
Jan 13, 2012 GoDaddy

 

[webdomain]

That's nice! Thanks Dubya.

Any idea what kind of readership they have?

Not sure exact numbers, but this is one of the main domain sites that I follow outside of dnjournal.com

Michael B. is well known in the domain industry, so you I think it has a pretty high level readership among some serious domainers.

 

[MicroGuy]

profinish.com $1,305
Jan 13, 2012 GoDaddy

I don't see these types of sales having any impact on the .PRO. It only further reinforces the argument that one should stick with .COM. IMO.