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.

 

[MasterGuru]

If any billing errors with 1and1.com - email to billing@ or solutions@
Sometimes this happens... but in ~99% of cases Autorenew switcher works as expected (at least for me).

They going double crazy - writing to them from my admin e-mail and getting answer from them that I'm writing not from my admin e-mail... Very crazy registrar

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

You must write from your account email and also mention your Customer ID.

 

[MasterGuru]

You should write from your account email and also mention your Customer ID.

I wrote from my account e-mail and getting a bullshit answers from them...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I can't comment that...
Never had such replies when emailing from my account email.
And all billing mistakes were solved/credited.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Alternatively, 1and1 offers Callback...

 

[MasterGuru]

Conclusion: avoid 1and1.com

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

This is your very own conclusion.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

p.s. My experience with 1and1 is ~9 years and 6K+ domains were registered/transferred...

 

[InvisionTech]

Help needed, Encirca.com renewal does not work! On the renewal page there is a extention .coop and on the .pro it gives an error: That TLD extension is not valid. Can someone English-speaking call to the support PHONE SUPPORTCALL +1-855-590-4677 and report the problem? Thank you.

Encirca is broken on many fronts. I was not able to renew domains in bulk until I contacted support and they generated a link for me... wtf? I will be taking domains out of encirca.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I forgot about EnCirca many years ago.

 

[mwzd]

Encirca has worked fine for me, their UI is glitchy but once you know how to use it, it wasn't too bad.

However now they have increased renewals from $15 to $16.49 when all other registrars seem to be dropping renewal rates for .pro

Will probably have to move out the domains from there now.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

$1 increase was on September'1 by Afilias for all registrars...
But EnCirca's prices are traditionally uncompetitive.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

~4.2K netgain last month = ~283K

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.one 0.11
.PRO 0.28
.org 0.28
.com 0.7
.net 0.94
.info 1.37
.life 2.21
.biz 3.55
.top 6.6

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

My current 2018 .PRO results:
6 sales (highest: $1.5K, average: ~$860).
2 of 6 - Non-English.
3 of 6 - 4L domains.
Buyers from: Russia (2, both Non-Moscow), Ukraine, Qazaqstan, Israel and US.

+ sold a few domains to another domainer... ~$200 each.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

1 of 6 - plural.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Like 2017, this year I also don't see my Sedo escrow sales in various reports like DNJournal...
So looks that Sedo shares only their marketplace sales.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

2.3K netgain during BF = 288.5K+

 

[Qutest]

I've had this for a few months

Blockchainers.pro

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

2.3K netgain during BF = 288.5K+

I guess, this is due to $3.17 at GoDaddy...

p.s. $2.06 at Namecheap is the lowest.