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.

 

[trp3]

Instead .PRO is alive since 2004 and only grows each year...

With this in mind, best of success.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Any success depends on endusers only...
No endusers - no growth.

 

[PNW]

From a personal experience .pro sales have been very small along the lines with ws, .mobi, and .cc. Years ago at NP there use to be pro auctions that went from $$$ - $$$$ for what appeared to be good keywords; today you almost have to give them away.

As for the future, I see an overall decrease in interest with the occasional trend. Waiting 10 years for a payout for this particular extension means 10 years renewals and an assumption you're going to feel the same way about it. There are also going to be many more extensions, some of which may have proven themselves through mass use/acceptance.

I currently have three remaining: two of which are defensive and one that I'm practically giving away even though it's market grows daily.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

No problems... drop them... more opportunities for me and other domainers...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Yesterday I have caught the one of .PRO-drops...
The same day it has been sold for $1K (passive sale as always for me, Bodis-form)

Just want to add that this is just a normal/standard keyword... no something special or MEGA...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

p.s. The same .ORG was sold for $2K in 2010.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Found portfolio of NL-domainer: buy-domain.pro

 

[PNW]

As mentioned two of the three are defensive which means I'm keeping them. It's an opportunity to hand reg a bunch of names or acquire many good pro names that pop up from other promainer drops, incur however many renewals, wait for some break to come and repeat the cycle when you've given up finding an end user.

It's a learning opportunity, but not a good use of time/money and with virtually no domainer to domainer sales with this extension your names stand a good chance to be ignored even in the Bargain Bin regardless if they are high quality which is subjective.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I sell to endusers only... and in passive mode... see above.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Pheenix today: GREAT

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Dynadot's snaps today (all are Russian keywords):
kraski
vershina
vitrina

 

[cdboard]

I was hoping dynadot would snap "great" for me.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

No any chances for Dynadot against Pheenix, don't waste your time...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Dynadot today: NORD

I'm in an auction for it...

Won by Romanian domainer.

 

[Fancy.domains]

Won by Romanian domainer.

Yes, I decided not to bid that high. Personally, I prefer English keywords.

 

[cdboard]

how high did it go?

 

[Fancy.domains]

how high did it go?

I am not sure, I think it was very low, like a few dollars over reg price.

 

[GoKaizen]

Dynadot does beat Pheenix.

No any chances for Dynadot against Pheenix, don't waste your time...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Dynadot can beat Pheenix with .org/.info only.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

~0% success for Dyna against Pheenix with .PRO