New registrations this month
76.2K domains/month
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.pro
A professional-positioning extension to assess alongside the audience, name fit and long-term renewal cost.
- RegistryIdentity Digital Limited
- Metrics held26
- With history0
Signal profile
- Brevity 94
- Namespace depth 84
- RDAP readiness 100
- DNSSEC 100
- NS breadth 75
- Registration scale 73
- Domains
- 1.19M domains
- Active registrars
- 341 registrar accounts
- DNS queries
- 113.63B queries/month
Everything on record
26 reported metrics for .pro
Grouped as the registry reports them. Each figure carries its source, when it was observed and a quality grade, and any metric with a trend can be opened for its full history.
Attempted registrations
213.8K attempts/month
Deletions this month
50K domains/month
Multi-year registration share
1.03% ratio
Registered nameservers
108.1K nameservers
Renewals this month
20.2K domains/month
Restores this month
37 domains/month
Successful inbound transfers
851 transfers/month
Registered domains
1.19M domains
Registry contract signed
1 Oct 2015 date
Registry contract terminated
No
Delegated to the root
27 May 2004 date
Contracted registry operator
Identity Digital Domains Limited
Specification 13 brand TLD
No
Third-level registration
Yes
Registrar accounts with domains
341 registrar accounts
Registrar concentration
12.19% index
Reporting registrar accounts
1,654 registrar accounts
Top five registrar share
61.04% ratio
Largest registrar share
28.96% ratio
DNS queries received
113.63B queries/month
DNS response ratio
100% ratio
Operational registrars
1,654 registrars
Registration-data queries
64.09M queries/month
Registry availability checks
95.09M commands/month
Registry create commands
212.8K commands/month
Root zone and registry agreement
The facts that do not change monthly
Delegation, operator and protocol support, taken from the IANA root zone and the ICANN registry agreement data.
- Registry manager
- Identity Digital Limited
- Registry operator
- Identity Digital Domains Limited
- Delegated to the root
- 27 May 2004
- Registry contract signed
- 1 October 2015
- Authoritative nameservers
- 6
- DNSSEC signed
- Yes
- RDAP available
- Yes
- Internationalised label
- No
- Third-level registration
- Yes
- Specification 13 brand TLD
- No
IANA Root Zone Database
ICANN registry agreement
ICANN gTLD contract data
ICANN gTLD contract data
IANA root zone
Root delegation DS record
IANA RDAP bootstrap registry
IANA root zone
ICANN registry agreement
ICANN registry agreement
Namespace beneath .pro
12 ICANN boundary rules Registration boundaries recognised beneath this TLD.
4 Private boundary rules Privately operated suffixes, such as hosting subdomains.
Where this comes from
Every figure is traceable
Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled. Each metric names the source it came from and the month it was observed, and a metric with no observation is shown as unknown rather than filled with a zero.
- ICANN gTLD Registry Agreement Data View source
- ICANN Monthly Registry Activity Reports View source
- ICANN Monthly Registry Reports View source
- TLD registry-published statistics View source
Enrichment snapshot generated . Registry reporting runs a month or two behind, so the newest observation is rarely this month.
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