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.

 

[Kate]

Look at .co for example, it's not the cheapest extension, pricing is more or less on par with .tv but they did a pretty good job promoting it.

I think the restrictions are a putoff to some extent, even to domainers the qualification requirements are not always clear. It blurs the message. If people have doubts about their eligibility, they will move on rather than take a chance out of uncertainty. Why bother ?

The problem is that plenty of new extensions are around the corner, and many will be vying for a share of the same pie.

The registrars won't be able to promote all of them at the same time. A few will get more exposure, the rest will just be added to the list with zero visibility. For example, today you can register .pro at Enom but you have to dig for it. It's not prominent at all.

IMO it's game over for .pro & .siblings - the window of opportunity is long gone. But it's your money %%-

 

[JoeBiz]

Exactly the problem, .pro is not carried by mainstream registrars.
Also, the restrictions albeit minor are not a selling point either.

Exactly !!!!

 

[webdomain]

Out of over 1900 applications for new extensions I think the best one is .wow! That's our competition folks...overall all the hype and publicity should just end up shaking the internet tree and waking up the general public to non .com domains..I think this is good.

Most of the extensions are very specific and imho don't allow for mass consumption of millions of registrants. It will be hard to get many of these off the ground, but good for the few niche keyword type websites that those extensions would benefit (.loan) for example will be great for a few hundred websites. house.loan, cash.loan, payday.loan ect..

like it or not, .pro is still very much in the game.

 

[webdomain]

just saw this on dnjournal , cards.pro 1,800 sale on sedo this week.

http://dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

 

[JoeBiz]

I'm wondering how long I'm going to see "The Big Reveal" in every - single - newsletter - I receive. Sounds like something you would do on a reality show.

 

[Federer]

Transport.pro is currently @ Auction. Will be interesting to see how much it fetches.

 

[gkjunior]

Transport.pro is currently @ Auction. Will be interesting to see how much it fetches.

Wonder if the buyers are the same ones that made a couple of inquiries at DNS but did not like the quote...maybe the .pro can get a good price

see attachment with quote

 

[Kuli]

The funny thing is:

According to domaintools.com, transport.pro was solr in September 2008 for $550.

I wonder who's buying a domain and then dropping it not even four years later.

It's not that strange as with video.pro in 2007, but it's still noteworthy.

 

[InvisionTech]

Mart .pro at auction...

https://sedo.com/auction/auction_de...ion_id=128798&tracked=&partnerid=&language=us

 

[JoeBiz]

In case you've missed it, Rick Schwartz has won the UDRP on SaveMe.com. I feel sure that no one just fell out of their chair but the big news IMO is the finding that the Complaint was Brought in Bad Faith along with a Finding Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking.

Now if they'll slap a huge fine on the latter I'll be a happy domainer!


8^X

 

[PNW]

How is that relevant to .Pro?

 

[JoeBiz]

How is that relevant to .Pro?

It's relevant because I want my Pro friends to have the information. And this just happens to be where they are.

And it's in fact HUGELY relevant to all TLDs.

 

[webdomain]

fyi..dnjournal reported digital.pro sold for 2,500.

 

[4pm]

Would really appreciate any thoughts from pros on a reasonable end-user price range for Football(.)pro



thanks in advance

 

[webdomain]

4pm, I think this quote would be a reasonable..You could hold out for more if you are willing to wait.

http://appraise.epik.com/football.pro

 

[4pm]

4pm, I think this quote would be a reasonable..You could hold out for more if you are willing to wait.

http://appraise.epik.com/football.pro

got it. thanks

 

[Edward Smeu]

Easily mid $x,xxx. No less than $3500(worst case) and it should be ok. I;m considering other extension sales as well as the exact searches for 'pro football' and 'football pro' which are a lot.

 

[terol]

:gn:

A fair end-user price for Football(.)pro would be around 15,000 USD.

Domain ID: D169327-PRO
Domain Name: FOOTBALL(.)PRO
Created On: 15-Jun-2012 16:26:04 UTC

How is this possible? :gl:

 

[4pm]

How is this possible?

"Whois History: 36 records have been archived since 2008-11-11"


thanks for the appraisal terol

 

[terol]

Archived records do not matter if the registry whois tells that the domain was created some days ago.

How is possible that a premium one like "football(.)pro" had been registered on last 15th June?