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.

 

[gkjunior]

I market/sell VanityEmail addresses with the .pro extension...many of my domain names are professional titles, some are fun and/or funny niche markets...names real people can relate to...names not suited for the .com extension.
Here are some of them:
SkiBum.pro
BellyDancer.pro
Sitter.pro
Baller.pro
Redneck.pro
Ganja.pro
Gangsta.pro
Bitch.pro and others are coming soon.
Just trying to do my part …let me know what you think.

Cool Breeze....sites are fantastic. Maybe Afilias can cough down some marketing dollars.....I have an idea any .pro owner who puts great sites like these above should be part of a new Afilias marketing program for developers.. So instead of marketing the extension itself they can focus on real world live .pro sites that meet some type of criteria.


Cool Breeze has my vote. Of course this is self serving.:kickass:

 

[terol]

Talent.pro has been sold for 2,000 EUR

:gl:

 

[terol]

Time.pro has been sold for 1,000 USD

:wave:

 

[webdomain]

According to Frank Shilling in this video dot pros aren't great...but aren't bad either.

http://www.ricksblog.com/2013/10/team-schwartz-vs-team-schilling-traffic-video-part-1/

Everyone investing in new gtlds should watch this.

It's exciting to see the last few posts on this board as I really think that .pro's success will come through our hard work, development and promotion of .pro as an extension.

It was interesting in this video where they mentioned that verisign didn;t really do much to build .com so I think even with .com it was built by the success of the community of its members. The big thing they had going for them was zero competition.

 

[webdomain]

Saw jeuxdecuisine.pro at flippa

cool to see some .pro listings on flippa. Better to see a few that are making money.
little unfortunate that the owner of this business is having a hard time with his ad sense account.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

http://registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx
During Sep-Oct'2013 minus 8K domains for .PRO/Afilias (128K >>> 120K).

 

[JoeBiz]

ccTLDs can thrive with restrictions (if they are not too severe) but in gTLDs it's different.

Hi sdinc. Thanks for the post. I agree, but could you explain your thinking behind your statement below. Just curious.

"ccTLDs can thrive with restrictions (if they are not too severe) but in gTLDs it's different."

8^X

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Is that a bad sign?

It is not perfect but it's good to know that domainers invest these amounts in this extension.

Agree. Pro or no Pro the domaining bottom line is not about building nice sites, it's about profit. I'd say that's the motive behind 99.9% of domainers. The same idea applies to most industries. Profit motive is at the base of Capitalism ... no matter where it comes from.

8^X

 

[Kate]

Hi sdinc. Thanks for the post. I agree, but could you explain your thinking behind your statement below. Just curious.

"ccTLDs can thrive with restrictions (if they are not too severe) but in gTLDs it's different."

Sure, here are some examples of TLDs with restrictions, that are nonetheless fairly strong in their respective markets:
.ie Ireland
.ca Canada
.fi Finland
.com.au Australia

For those TLDs, you usually have to be a national of the country in question, or permanent resident, or local company. People who live in those countries already qualify for their local extension. The restrictions don't hurt them, only the foreigners, some of which could just be speculators.
This is in contrast with .pro where the eligibility requirements seem to be ambiguous or misunderstood (possibly deterring potential registrants).

 

[DD.pro]

For the months of November and December 2013, all new .PRO registrations are 50% off for all Gandi's price rates.

 

[JoeBiz]

Sure, here are some examples of TLDs with restrictions, that are nonetheless fairly strong in their respective markets:
.ie Ireland
.ca Canada
.fi Finland
.com.au Australia

For those TLDs, you usually have to be a national of the country in question, or permanent resident, or local company. People who live in those countries already qualify for their local extension. The restrictions don't hurt them, only the foreigners, some of which could just be speculators.
This is in contrast with .pro where the eligibility requirements seem to be ambiguous or misunderstood (possibly deterring potential registrants).

Don't forget .US ...

Thanks for your input!

8^X

 

[webdomain]

New gtld's coming out should help .pro as the associated advertising will break the mold of the mindset that you only have to own a .com. Then of course out of all the new extensions I still believe .pro is one of the best given its ability to elevate the domain with a higher end appearance.

I know many will disagree but I still think .pro adds tremendous value and is largely generic as it will apply to thousands of words.

Other new gtlds won't have such a broad range keyword combinations that work.

 

[webdomain]

For all you people that think .pro websites aren't being developed take a look at this.

http://mostpopularwebsites.net/top-level-domain/.PRO

Was pleasantly surprised by all the russian and foreign development that is taking place along with some nice sites in the US. Seems there are some genuinely unique sites being created with some following.

 

[PNW]

For all you people that think .pro websites aren't being developed take a look at this.

http://mostpopularwebsites.net/top-level-domain/.PRO

Was pleasantly surprised by all the russian and foreign development that is taking place along with some nice sites in the US. Seems there are some genuinely unique sites being created with some following.

From the site: "As few as 0.0% of all of the most popular websites on the internet have a .PRO extension making it the #79 top level domain!"

 

[webdomain]

So does .gov have 0.0% of all the most popular sites which is top 1 million sites online. My point was more about .pro being developed by some more serious web developers and I think that companies like tech.pro will really help the extension become more ingrained into the core of the internet since it appeals to programmers and the like. .Pro is an underdog that continues to show a great deal of promise and worth the risk for investment.

 

[terol]

Diamond.pro has been sold for 7,000 USD

Diamonds.pro has been sold for 1,000 USD

:wave:

 

[Edward Smeu]

Where and when?

 

[terol]

SEDO, last week :gl:

 

[Kuli]

Diamond.pro has been sold for 7,000 USD

Diamonds.pro has been sold for 1,000 USD

:wave:

Wow, superb! That's more than I would have expected for these domains. Even though they are really good.

I just sold anwalt.pro (lawyer in German) for 3,500 Euro.

 

[terol]

I just sold anwalt.pro (lawyer in German) for 3,500 Euro

Nice sale, congrats :gl:

 

[vadts]

Sold hypoteka(dot)pro 1600 USD Sedo.