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]

Still unsupported by TLD-filter @Dynadot
But can be found via this link: https://www.dynadot.com/market/auction/?keyword=.pro

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

$1.06 at NameCheap is still the lowest.
$2.17 Transfer to 1and1.

In March works as well...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Just received my 6th offer this year... $5K from Moscow...

On my MEDIC (2006)...
+ this domain was already bidded by Indian startup...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

As I see, the dropcatching activity of Chinese registrars has increased during last weeks...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Available: bidders

 

[mpls]

Just received my 6th offer this year... $5K from Moscow...

First of all congrats!
I can see your domain medical dot pro is parked wit parking crew and you've received an offer from Moscow.
Are these requests/offers real? I ask you because ALL my domains parked with parking crew received a lot of "offers page view" ONLY from Moscow.
I've also received 2 offers ($ XX) from Moscow. But when I replied to them they never reply or come back.
Are this requests real or are bots? I ask becuse it's strange always and only from Moscow (no other countries, only Russia, Moscow) and always they never reply/come back when I recontact them.
Seems bots, not real people.
Have you noticed this with parking crew?
Thanks

 

[Kate]

I ask becuse it's strange always and only from Moscow (no other countries, only Russia, Moscow)

.pro has more uptake in Russia or France, because it's carried by the big local registrars. That's it. It's fairly unknown in the rest of the world.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I had up to $10K offers from the USA as well...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And overall - they are coming from around the world... but primarily - from Europe...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Real people... I had negotiations... Sometimes - long negotiations...
I don't report any bots in this thread.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

"Offer views" can be generated by bots...
But to submit any message to the domain owner - they need to pass CAPTCHA.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Usually they ask me: if this domain is for sale and what price...
And only then I receive their offers...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I can see your domain medical dot pro is parked wit parking crew

My domain is MEDIC (2006).
Medical - RESERVED name.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

.pro has more uptake in Russia or France, because it's carried by the big local registrars. That's it.

It is carried by many many .PRO-endusers in these countries...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I had up to $10K offers from the USA as well...

On analytics, database, promoter etc.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

~25-33% of incoming offers - US.
This is my own stats since 2016...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

0% - China.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Was offer even from Iran but never from Chineses... ))))

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

APPO.PRO (2013) - utils and hacktools...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

AHEAD.PRO (2008) - nice enduser from the UAE...