MJS officially reporting sales isn't necessarily in the seller or buyer's interests. For a seller is leaves a trail of bread crumbs for tax authorities and for a buyer it makes it harder to acquire domains at reasonable prices.
I don't think DNJournal or NameBio should include private transactions in their price statistics. They can be inflated by people with vested interests in getting the price of an extension up.
The seller of one of the .pros I bought wanted to report a price five times what was actually agreed so I'm very cynical about price reporting unless somebody has paid commission on it and that commission is significantly more than the seller stands to gain by ramping prices up.
In exceptional circumstances, price reporting can stunt aftermarket growth. After your Afternic sales of Video.pro $35,000, Stream.pro $11,000, Streaming.pro $18,000 and Movie.pro $22,000 to Maurits Rijkeboer were reported the .pro aftermarket went through a lean spell.
I think any .pro buyers out there became sellers when they saw this and sellers added another zero to their prices which they had little chance of getting. Why do you think Mr Rijkeboer hasn't developed any of these domains? Streaming Group's web address
www.streaminggroup.com doesn't resolve to a site. You'd think if a company's business was online streaming and they paid $88,000 for 4 .pros they'd have a site up in a couple of weeks?
The .pro aftermarket is crippled by the $99 registration fee and restrictions on registering domains. I'm not convinced reporting every $X,XXX sale will have any impact on the .pro aftermarket until these fundamental issues are addressed. If nothing changes at Registry.pro, there will still be 5,000 .pros registered 18 months from now when their ICANN contract is due for renewal.
As an eloquent lawyer and contributor of 6% of Registry.pro's income, you could have more influence on the .pro aftermarket by lobbying .pro decision makers than sweeping up an extra handful of $X,XXX sale reports for DNJournal. If registration costs came down to $10 and all restrictions on registration were lifted your 300 premium .pros would be worth several million dollars.