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]

NORD - is very brandable... and many brands exist...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Afrodita
ekonomist
fito
svit
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Were deleted by Dynadot after 48h... then handregged with Alpnames by the same Russian.
Fake backorder-bidders @Dynadot or what???

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

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

I guess tomorrow will be the same... will be deleted...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Yes, and for those 3 domains the same scenario: caught by Dyna >>> after 48h deleted >>> handregged at Alpnames.

 

[cdboard]

I wonder if a fresh backorder would have caught them.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Dynadot answered that all these backorders were not paid. So we already have at least 7 such deletions for the same Russian and he is not banned there... still alive...
The show must go on...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Pheenix today:
calling
chairman

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

webserver.pro and mailserver.pro are owned/used by Hexonet.
Both are 2008.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

newsletter.pro (2006) - nice enduser...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Today

Pheenix:
employers
player

Dynadot:
HELM

Deleted and reserved forever:
Cyprus
Jersey

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

thats.pro

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

So 4 days left to the end of Afilias .PROmo...
If it will not be extended - then standard regfee from July'1...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Site.PRO (2005) - Website builder...

 

[WordWalker]

There are also going to be many more extensions, some of which may have proven themselves through mass use/acceptance.

There is already MASS ACCEPTANCE and adoption of the keyword, "PRO". However, business leaders and business owners have not yet connected the dots between the immense popularity of the keyword "PRO" and the availability of the domain extension, .PRO.

Global conglomerates as well as smaller, independent companies currently use the keyword "PRO" more than any other generic, descriptive keyword or phrase to describe both product and service offerings. It doesn't get any better than that. Eventually, the connection between "PRO" and .PRO will be made.​

When "PRO" is to the left of the dot, look at the continuing, yearly prices some of the newTLD registries have asked:

PRO.reviews $55K/yr.

PRO.news $55K/yr.

PRO.consulting $55K/yr.

PRO.cricket $11K/yr.​

On the other hand, the renewal fee for NEWS.pro is only $15.00/yr.

Market inefficiencies create investment opportunities. As far as relative domain pricing goes, .PRO is currently bargain priced. That advantage will eventually be priced into the domain marketplace.

And if it doesn't happen, then we're all living on Bizarro World!

 

[brandnow]

There is already MASS ACCEPTANCE and adoption of the keyword, "PRO". However, business leaders and business owners have not yet connected the dots between the immense popularity of the keyword "PRO" and the availability of the domain extension, .PRO.

Global conglomerates as well as smaller, independent companies currently use the keyword "PRO" more than any other generic, descriptive keyword or phrase to describe both product and service offerings. It doesn't get any better than that. Eventually, the connection between "PRO" and .PRO will be made.​

When "PRO" is to the left of the dot, look at the continuing, yearly prices some of the newTLD registries have asked:

PRO.reviews $55K/yr.

PRO.news $55K/yr.

PRO.consulting $55K/yr.

PRO.cricket $11K/yr.​

On the other hand, the renewal fee for NEWS.pro is only $15.00/yr.

Market inefficiencies create investment opportunities. As far as relative domain pricing goes, .PRO is currently bargain priced. That advantage will eventually be priced into the domain marketplace.

And if it doesn't happen, then we're all living on Bizarro World!

I think it will all come down to trust.

If .pro becomes another spammy extension.. people won't trust it. Yes, it's been around since 2004? 2005? But .pro went away for several years and was not popular.. now it is coming back. But will it become a spammy extension or a good one?

Right now on Spamhaus, for example, it has 10% "bad" rating.. not too bad.. but could be better. Spamhaus is just one small way of measuring how spammy the extension is.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

When choosing a TLD we should not be to influenced by spam stats.
You can establish a trustful website= domain in every extension if you do it right.

BTW, my personal experience / statistic is, that .com is definitely the 'spam leader'.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Dynadot answered that all these backorders were not paid. So we already have at least 7 such deletions for the same Russian and he is not banned there... still alive...
The show must go on...

Today
Dynadot:
HELM

One more...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

@brandnow I see a lot of .PRO-endusers everyday... The most of them are European...
If it is ignored by GoDaddy (unknown in the USA) - this is another theme...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Dynadot today:
kira (I guess will be deleted after 48h, see above)
tournament

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of now (less is better):
.org 0.14
.info 0.57
.PRO 0.70
.com 0.75
.net 0.75
.biz 1.43