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.

 

[DNGear]

That wasn't mine.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

That wasn't mine.

Another detected domains were with recent expiration dates, all were renewed - but they remain in the suspended state.

 

[DNGear]

I could see EDomains/Catched accumulating domains in some extensions by placing shill bids. And i guess they started renewing dropped domains.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

You may check them in a bulk via https://digwebinterface.com
If no answer per certain DNS type query - then these domains are suspended (*Hold in WHOIS).

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Pheenix domains still exist, I still meet their .PRO domains with frozen Expiration dates like 2018...
Why they are alive and were not dropped/removed by Afilias - I don't understand...

Just 1 example: BASIC

One more example: RESOLVE

 

[MasterGuru]

One more example: RESOLVE

strange things happens

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

~1.2K domains netloss in June = 267.2K+
Q2/2021: ~300 domains netloss.
YTD: ~1.3K domains netloss.

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Badness Index as of today (less is better):
.org 0.18
.PRO 0.4
.com 0.63
.net 1.22

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

On Sedo I see tons of domains with fixed price of 5,500 GBP. Just the same price for all regardless of keyword.
And offers are not allowed.
Does this model really work for you???

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

+ Sedo parking lander with sales text at the bottom of page.
Or ZeroClick redirects to 3rd parties...

All conditions for no sales - in other words.

 

[DNGear]

Which sales lander would be best @Jurgen Wolf? No parking ads.

Thanks

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

On Sedo I use Sales Lander v1.
It also prevents ZeroClick redirects - if you forgot to disable it per your account (via ticket).

 

[DNGear]

Thanks Jurgen.

Sedo, dan, afternic which sales lander would be best, as per your observation?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

My country is banned by Afternic's firewall for many years.

Among Sedo, DAN, Epik landers - the best conversion I get on Sedo.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

From my observation, more and more endusers (like KENT) transfer their domains to CloudFlare...
Do you know CF transfer fee?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Their profit is 0 according to https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
But I didn't try.

 

[DNGear]

I haven't used it.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I will try CF after my next sale...
Currently no budget for such activity.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

2 recently reported transactions:

CONTACT (2007)
1,840 GBP
private

TEAM (2005)
3.5K EUR
Sedo

 

[Rammbo]

Diem.pro .

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Like Pheenix, tons of former ELB domains still exist as well...
Just 1 example: BOUND