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]

repeating LLLLs are drying up fast

Repeating LLLLs were registered in the previous years.
Just the only one was dropped into my hands: MMMM

 

[sandyhere]

Repeating LLLLs were registered in the previous years.
Just the only one was dropped into my hands: MMMM

Am talking of repeating any two Chip letters also getting regd fast.
Marked HKLL,pro

 

[webdomain]

I picked up weights.pro yesterday. There are some single words still out there.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

AlpNames has increased Reg-price: $0.99 >>> $1.29
Renew/Transfer still $7.99

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

24h change: +19.1K
267K+ total.

 

[Fancy.domains]

I have snapped some drops lately:

- Airport
- Ninja
- Full
- Burma

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

327K+ already...

 

[mwzd]

Someone somewhere is splurging some serious cash, guess it remains to be seen if it offers a return or a loss.

327k is pretty big, puts .pro ahead of .science!

If this continues a 600k+ reg base doesn't seem too far away.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Forget about .science!
With GoDaddy, 1and1 and Namecheap - .PRO will be ahead of .club at least!

 

[mwzd]

Is that expected anytime soon?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

We (domainers) need to press on these registrars... as much as possible!

 

[inland]

Most of 5Ns and repeating LLLLs are drying up fast.
Today bagged some for actual developing:

travelogue,pro
imager,pro​

Travelogue.pro sounds like it will be an interesting website. Please post when the site is developed. Thanks.

 

[inland]

Forget about .science!
With GoDaddy, 1and1 and Namecheap - .PRO will be ahead of .club at least!

Yesterday, while I was getting pizza, I called GoDaddy customer support. The rep answering the phone said he had never heard of .pro and that I could not register at GoDaddy. I said "You're joking, right? .pro has been around since 2004 and you don't offer it?"

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

GD-Support is outsourced and unuseful in this case...
You need to talk with their Marketing dept.

 

[inland]

We (domainers) need to press on these registrars... as much as possible!

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[Jurgen Wolf]

Phil Bienert
Chief Marketing Officer at GoDaddy...
linkedin.com/in/philbienert

 

[inland]

GD-Support is outsourced and unuseful in this case...
You need to talk with their Marketing dept.

It was fun though.

 

[WordWalker]

A few more .PRO regs:

veggie

saigon

panic

officesupplies

loseweight

lick

jerseys

monthly

slip

yell

westcoast

homebuyers

goth

ezine

dailydeals

dailydeal

conservative

bogo

blvd

bent

bargains

affordable

 

[WordWalker]

Very surprising that China investors' preferred LLLL.PRO domains are being cleared out while almost 2,000 4L english dictionary words remain on the shelf. Don't know what to make of it. Feels somewhat like the cart before the horse, but what do I know?

 

[mwzd]

We (domainers) need to press on these registrars... as much as possible!

It's not for investors to get involved, think the Registry has enough connections with GoDaddy to get this done, if they can. I don't think GoDaddy even cares about smaller extensions, they're doing quite well without.

Since a lot of regs are coming out of China, surprisingly, it's quite obvious they would register domains that make sense to them, I stick to English keywords as that's the market I kind of have a handle on.

I could have registered some low quality nnnn.pro but buying domains to sell to people who could have registered those themselves if they wanted to seems counter productive, though a lot of money has been made by people doing just that, so what do I know.