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]

Uniregistry Market UI was significantly updated/simplified recently... just detected today...
And I have moved 2 .PROs from Sedo to Uni... Probably, later will add more domains...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

.PRO posts in another thread:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/liaison-gtld-deactivated.1171321/#post-7576658

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Yesterday received my 1st inquiry in 2020...
mid $xxx initial bid on Dan parked domain... from Latvia...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

My last sale was Fleet for 3995 in afternic.

German buyer according to WHOIS...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

$2.06 at Namecheap until Jan'20.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Last few days I see on my UniMarket dashboard 1 BIN sale of $5,695 in the "Pending sales" box...
This box is not clickable... so I can't check any other details... even domain is not shown...

And the only 1 my .PRO domain is priced exactly for this amount - so I clearly understand which domain is "pending"...
What is your experience at Uni regarding those "pending" events?
What % of failed sales (false alarms)?

I'm asking because previously I had a few fake bidders on this domain when it was parked at Bodis/PC/Dan...
And because Uniregistry LiveChat agents also don't know anything... why it is displayed on my dashboard, who started it...

 

[Crypto2020]

Have 1 .pro name that I really like:

Fandom​

What do you think its worth?


Another one I have is homosexual.pro, which I am liquidating at bargain price of $88 if anyone is interested.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Fandom?
I'm not aware about this niche...
Probably, low $x,xxx to the right buyer.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Last few days I see on my UniMarket dashboard 1 BIN sale of $5,695 in the "Pending sales" box...
This box is not clickable... so I can't check any other details... even domain is not shown...

And the only 1 my .PRO domain is priced exactly for this amount - so I clearly understand which domain is "pending"...
What is your experience at Uni regarding those "pending" events?
What % of failed sales (false alarms)?

I'm asking because previously I had a few fake bidders on this domain when it was parked at Bodis/PC/Dan...
And because Uniregistry LiveChat agents also don't know anything... why it is displayed on my dashboard, who started it...

Uni replied today:

...our system is marking unverified inquiries as pending sales. Basically, inquiries, where buyers haven't verified their email addresses and have not proceeded with the purchase of the domain, are being counted as pending sales in our Marketplace.

We have already sent feedback to our Market department to stop the system from marking those inquiries as 'pending sales'.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I also asked Uni to lower their .PRO fees...
They are really abnormal there...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Who has PLANES - serverHold there...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.namepros.com/threads/an...ppc-just-contacts.1170197/page-2#post-7605585

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Former ELB (Netissime/Magic.fr) domains regged in 2016 were autorenewed again by their buggy system... at their own cost...
And all original registrants remain in WHOIS as always (and probably - forever)... so you may contact them to get your AUTH codes and transfer-out...

Just 1 example of tons: FRISCO

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I also have seen a few Pheenix domains with Expiration Dates of 2018 and 2019...
And they still exist... and even work with those EDs...
All is possible with Afilias... in brief.

@gorilla_bob

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.org 0.34
.net 0.44
.PRO 0.5
.com 0.67

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

~2.4K netloss in January = ~287.2K

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Just randomly detected today: https://auctions.godaddy.com/trpItemListing.aspx?domain=vanilla.pro
Looks that GoDaddy Auctions support .PRO as of now... so Afternic is not mandatory...

 

[DNGear]

Just randomly detected today: https://auctions.godaddy.com/trpItemListing.aspx?domain=vanilla.pro
Looks that GoDaddy Auctions support .PRO as of now... so Afternic is not mandatory...

Its just showing my afternic listing. Still, Godaddy is not supporting .pro in auctions.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

But my link above is direct GoDaddy link, and auction is running on Vanilla... 44 days left...

 

[DNGear]

That was an url redirect to godaddy. But its displaying afternic listing.

https://auctions.godaddy.com/trpItemListing.aspx?domain=vanilla.pro