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.

 

[ioana_bv]

Usually cloud . anything sells good.
Recent sale I know was cloud.us sold over $8k. Still $7k is a good sale too.

 

[webdomain]

cloud.pro is another decent .pro sale!

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

From april through june Afilias price for registrars is $6.
Source: www.opensrs.com/site/services/domains/pricing/promos/pro-q1-2013

 

[Domainstore]

Indeed !

cloud.pro is another decent .pro sale!

 

[terol]

Only.pro has been sold for 700 USD :wave:

 

[hakita]

Hello

I sell Freelance.pro
I used it to host my website, but switch to a cctld.
the one who will send me the best escrow.com transaction offer (my id : py at land(remove that parenthesis)anger )dot fr before the end of 14/4 , will get it
regards

 

[Domainstore]

Thanks for the info I will try to renew the name.
Otherwise I'lll contact Sedo

 

[terol]

Tennis.pro has been sold for 6,500 USD :wave:

 

[b2b]

Tennis.pro has been sold for 6,500 USD :wave:

Thx for sharing Terol, where did you see this?

 

[terol]

At Sedo weekly sales report. :gl:

 

[mwzd]

Just think about it, tennis.pro at $6k, what a bargain, considering:

• - Tennis.com would probably be worth a couple of million.
• - Ultimate brand for tennis coaching / professionals.
• - 1.8 million exact searches per month for tennis.
• - Multi - Billion dollar industry market size annually.
• - TennisPro.com was registered in 1995.

In a world where thousands of alternative tlds are soon to be a reality, a 3 letter extension with global meaning, which has the added seo advantage of having been around for a while, will surely have an edge. This is one smart buy.

 

[terol]

This is one smart buy.

I totally agree. :gl:

 

[webdomain]

Someone got that at a great value. I bet people search directly for 'tennis pro'
Will easily get #1 placement under that search term. 100%

 

[Kate]

I've hard more than once from SEO guy that .pro is hard to rank.

 

[mjnels]

I've hard more than once from SEO guy that .pro is hard to rank.

wouldnt make any sense for it to stay like that after the new gTLD's... serious adjustments will need to be made.

should have been fixed already.

 

[webdomain]

I got filmmaker.pro first page on searches for 'film maker'

It's hard to rank anything top page even a .com

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Domain Name:SEDO.PRO
Created On:09-Feb-2013 01:05:07 UTC
Last Updated On:15-Apr-2013 07:51:16 UTC
Expiration Date:09-Feb-2014 01:05:07 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:eNOM, Inc (R2343-PRO)
Status:PENDING TRANSFER
Registrant ID:6f06990a02d3da92
Registrant Name:Transfer Service
Registrant Organization:Sedo

 

[Kate]

Strange, that domain was already active years ago. It must have dropped at some point.

 

[gkjunior]

Speechless

http://www.thedomains.com/2013/04/23/pw-gets-over-50000-registration-in-just-3-weeks/

This is just embarrassing....to have a .pro extension for so many years and not have a marketing campaign in place with a push to remove the reg requirements is beyond comprehension.

A year and a half after affilias purchase and they have managed to promote mostly through low pricing.

.co and now .pw are showing everyone that low pricing is not the answer

However that been said it would be interesting out of 50k .pw regs how many portfolio owners are involved

 

[webdomain]

I registered a dozen of them. Mainly going after keywords that I wanted to have for development. I originally thought the same, but I think .pw has launched an impressive campaign and will probably have over 100K registrants or more by next year. If Afilias wants to beat the competition they should get .pro listed on goDaddy. That would change the dynamic real fast!