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]

~7K netgain in November = ~290K

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.one 0.13
.PRO 0.32
.org 0.41
.com 1.09
.info 1.79
.net 1.84
.life 3.35
.top 5.86
.biz 7.17

 

[brandnow]

I've been out of the loop for a while. What is the current cheapest .pro transfer with privacy protection?

@Jurgen Wolf

 

[brandnow]

I've got experience.pro now

accepting offers and valuations

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

What is the current cheapest .pro transfer with privacy protection?

https://tld-list.com/tld/pro

p.s. I have individual reseller price of $10.50 with some Czech registrar.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Dynadot backorder auction on COINS:
Bidders: 11
Winning bid: $1,475

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I'm finishing this year with ~540 domains .PROfolio...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

5xx domains netgain last month.

Total 2018 change: ~278K >>> ~290.4K

 

[xynames]

This was started in 2008. If those posters had bought and held the best of what was available in 2008 dot com 11 years versus the best of what was available in 2008 dot pro they would have made much better money with the dot com portfolio.

Given the cost of renewal on a dot pro times 11 years I can’t imagine any way to have made money by holding long term a dot pro portfolio of any real size.

It’s the same concept of why real estate developers who pay premium to buy oceanfront homes end up with much more appreciation than those who put in less money to buy slum apartments. Penny wise pound foolish.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.one 0.1
.org 0.38
.PRO 0.72
.com 0.92
.net 1.21
.info 1.81
.life 3.74
.top 5.64
.biz 5.9

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

11 years???
Almost all .PRO domains sold by me - were within 1-2 years since I have regged or caught them.

 

[xynames]

The point of my post is that versus jumping on some oddball new extension if you’d just bought the best of what was available dot com and held both a decade you’d be underwater with the oddball extension versus now be holding some great dot coms from 2008.

This thread is 11 years old. Those guys who jumped on dot pro 11 years ago would have done better to buy and hold 11 years the best of what was available in 2008 dot com.

So next time another oddball extension comes out - think about whether it’s worth jumping on it.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Tons of good .PRO domains are available right now...
I have 1,XXX names in my todo-list.

 

[xynames]

Okayyyy.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And overall, in all TLDs below 5M you can always find many good names which can be resold...
This depends only on your intelligence and how many languages you know...

 

[xynames]

It’s obvious that you know what you’re doing and can’t understand (or don’t want to understand) the point of what I have said. Good luck.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I really don't understand what you are trying to say regarding 2008... how it matters here...
And .PRO was launched in 2004... and the very best .PROs were regged no later than beginning of 2005 by Michael Silver.

 

[xynames]

I’m just saying that if I’d hand registered a bunch of dot pro in 2008 and had held until today I’d be much worse off versus all the dot com I did in fact acquire in 2008 and held until today.

So next time a new extension comes out - over the long term it might be better to just buy the old traditional dot com versus the new extension.

The Original and Best usually ends up being the best investment over the long term.

 

[-EM-]

After 11 years I can say the same thing for any other field. No one know what will happen after a decade.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I invest in .PRO since 2010 and I don't see the significant change of average .PRO aftermarket prices...
It is relatively stable... because too much domains are available + nTLDs were added in 2014.