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.Pro Domain Extension Hits All Time High Number of Domain Registrations

February 12, 2016 by Michael Berkens 10 Comments

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On November 15th, 2015 the restrictions on the TLD .Pro were lifted.

Since it was approved in 2000, .Pro domain names had been restricted to to three classes of professions; lawyers, doctors, and accountants.

According to Domainincite.com, “.pro started this July with about 122,000 registrations.”

According to RegistrarStats.com, .Pro never hit 150,000 registrations when it was restricted but as of today according to .Pro domain registration sits at almost 170K domains, most of us wish we owned a stock that has a graph with the kind of growth .Pro has since the restrictions were lifted.

.Pro seems to have picked up some 50,000 domain registrations since the restrictions were lifted.

The growth is even more impressive considering that some of the largest domain name registrars do not handle .Pro including Godaddy and Enom.

At the moment Encirca.com is offering .Pro domain names for just $3 which doesn’t hurt either.

 

Filed Under: Afilias, Domain Names, Domains Tagged With: .Pro, .Pro domain names, .Pro domains, domain, domain names, Domains

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Samit says

    February 12, 2016 at 4:05 pm

    ,PRO is going to be a sleeper hit.

    Specially given how well it stacks up against ntlds like .guru / .ninja / .etc

    I predicted 2x reg base last month when regs were at ~120k

    Reply
  2. Dan says

    February 12, 2016 at 5:27 pm

    Numeric .pro are getting the highest attraction all nnnn and mostly chinese nnnnn are gone!

    Reply
  3. Kerry says

    February 12, 2016 at 7:11 pm

    This appears to be just what .pro needs right now to start moving towards the head of the pack. The extension does have some history and secondary market sales which are attractive.

    Reply
  4. Chris Hood says

    February 12, 2016 at 7:26 pm

    I picked up a few three-letter .pros at an auction a few years back:

    Toy.pro
    Pet.pro
    LLP.pro
    PVT.pro
    Din.pro

    Wondering if it might be time to look at selling them. Any activity on the secondary market? Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated.

    Reply
    • Aniket Borhade says

      December 13, 2016 at 6:02 am

      Hey Chris,
      I wanted to buy a 3 letter .pro domain but currently 3 letter .pro domain registration is not allowed. So I was wondering from where did you got these 3 letter .pro domains & when?

      Reply
      • DNPric.es says

        December 13, 2016 at 1:43 pm

        Those were premium one-off auctions. Afilias was asked by the community already to release LLL pro space. Still no progress there.

        Reply
      • Chris Hood says

        January 2, 2017 at 10:17 pm

        Sorry for the delay, Aniket. I was travelling. DNPric.es is correct, I got them at an auction several years ago.

        If you have any interest in mine, I’d be willing to sell. admin@webthulu.com

        Reply
  5. Vishal says

    February 13, 2016 at 2:00 am

    I think the restriction was a bad idea for .pro. There aren’t that many doctors, lawyers and accountant that would want such domain name. Now it’s good to hear that some companies might be using these domain names as restrictions has been lifted.

    Reply
  6. DNSal.es says

    February 13, 2016 at 3:45 am

    The registry now needs to drop another restriction and to open LLL . PRO space. This will make the .pro names more liquid too.

    Reply
  7. Kerry says

    February 17, 2016 at 12:28 am

    Anyone know how 38K .pro’s were added today? It’s now showing 220K registrants since this story was reported.

    Reply

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