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]

And now I recheck all my domains monthly... regarding serverHold.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

so maybe they complained to registry rather than try to win a UDRP? Does that sometimes lead to blocks?

No, all complaints regarding the ownership can't be a reason to block the domain.
Such blocks without UDRP decision are illegal.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Bunch of my Namecheap domains (as was described on the previous pages) were blocked by Afilias without any real reasons... And I spent over 1 week to unblock them.
I can't add anything.

Formal reason was stated as spam activity (this is what Afilias answered to Namecheap).
But I rechecked all those domains using https://www.spamhaus.org/lookup/ - none of them were blacklisted.

p.s. The mentioned EBET is good as well.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.org 0.26
.one 0.51
.PRO 0.58
.net 0.66
.com 0.73
.info 1.48
.biz 3.66
.top 3.89
.life 5.24

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Almost 9K domains netgain last month = ~299K

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Looks that parking service doesn't matter...
Just found today EBET (not mine) which is blocked on Undeveloped nameservers.

+ APIS
The same Namecheap and Undeveloped, also not mine.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Looks that both were unblocked yesterday.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

300K milestone...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.namepros.com/threads/bodis.484866/page-219#post-7354880

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

So yesterday 2 more blocked by Afilias victims for me...
1 was registered recently and parked at ParkingCrew, another domain parked at Bodis (2+ months old).
Both domains at Namecheap.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I have MANY .PRO domains with another registrars like 1and1, Dynadot, name.com etc.
But continuous blocking is happening only for Namecheap domains...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

The most annoying - this idiotic activity by Afilias is absolutely silent, no any notification to Registrants... no even attempts to investigate certain case...
Only own regular checks of portfolio can help to detect all these victims...

I think, Afilias must be deaccredited by ICANN.
Registrant has no any rights in Afilias opinion.

 

[MasterGuru]

Namecheap is a really dirty Registrar - some of my domains suddenly got this week ServerHOLD status....

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

11 victims for me at Namecheap for the last ~100 days...
And I'm not sure that this number is final...

p.s. Looks like real war of Afilias VS Domainers...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Not mine...
Just found overviews with serverHold at Namecheap and at their hosting nameservers... regged ~3 months ago.
If somebody reads this thread....

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

So my recommendation: who has under 100 domains at Namecheap - transfer-out them all... don't wait...

p.s. $5 transfer to 1and1 still works...

 

[MasterGuru]

namecheap is BAD registrar....

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Regarding the mentioned previously Undeveloped/DAN victims at Namecheap:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/da...e-official-thread.1148567/page-3#post-7357947

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

namecheap is BAD registrar....

This is due to their $2.06
So as outcome - they have the largest share of .PRO regs... And the most attention from Afilias accordingly.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Just detected XSERVER (not mine) - blocked even on its own nameservers...
The same Namecheap... 2 months old.