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.

 

[RU]

A propos, Dutch government officially uses ambassadeconsulaat.pro for its online appointment system.

What is 'online appointment system'?

ambassadeconsulaat.com is available for registration

 

[brandnow]

What is 'online appointment system'?

ambassadeconsulaat.com is available for registration

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It's a system of appointment that's .online.

 

[webdomain]

There are many examples of .pro being used in production sites. Pulled this one up today that I haven't seen before. https://www.sidekick.pro/

 

[yesonline]

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/pro-renewal-2015-05-28-en

https://www.icann.org/resources/unthemed-pages/pro-appendix-11-2010-04-22-en

 

[WhoNet]

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/pro-renewal-2015-05-28-en

https://www.icann.org/resources/unthemed-pages/pro-appendix-11-2010-04-22-en

It's really a great news!

 

[RU]

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/pro-renewal-2015-05-28-en

Does it mean that .PRO has expired? and they have 39 days to renew it?!

Thanks.

 

[brandnow]

It's really a great news!

This would be awesome if another company will pick up .Pro and market it properly! If that happens this extension can be HUGE again.

 

[Beezy]

Can someone summarize all of these documents? Really unclear about what's going on and the state of .pro.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

1. No any sale of .PRO-gTLD to another company, this is just standard practice to periodically renew agreement with ICANN.

2. Only this suggestion is important:
Public Interest Commitments to replace Appendix 11 Registration Restrictions (Specification 11): The existing Registration Restrictions in Appendix 11 of the .PRO Agreement are proposed to be removed and replaced with the set of standard public interest commitments applicable to all new gTLDs. Also, GAC Category 1 Safeguards 1 through 3 are added to Specification 11 to align with the removal of the TLDs previously included Registration Restrictions of Appendix 11.

 

[brandnow]

1. No any sale of .PRO-gTLD to another company, this is just standard practice to periodically renew agreement with ICANN.

2. Only this suggestion is important:
Public Interest Commitments to replace Appendix 11 Registration Restrictions (Specification 11): The existing Registration Restrictions in Appendix 11 of the .PRO Agreement are proposed to be removed and replaced with the set of standard public interest commitments applicable to all new gTLDs. Also, GAC Category 1 Safeguards 1 through 3 are added to Specification 11 to align with the removal of the TLDs previously included Registration Restrictions of Appendix 11.

I HOPE this happens.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Who wants even lower transfer-prices @netim.com - upgrade your account to Reseller.

 

[webdomain]

so...how many times is godaddy going to mention the word pro on their homepage? It's time to step up to the plate guys and sell the hell out of .pro

 

[webdomain]

nice job Andrew! on good.pro

 

[INamewiz]

Namepros.com v.s. Name.pro

 

[RU]

Namepros.com v.s. Name.pro

Registrant Name:ICANN

 

[B&J]

One of the recent .pro sales:

meteo.pro March 2015 € 1,200.00 EUR Sedo auction

 

[webdomain]

Didn't read all the fine print but here's some news I saw on .pro registry agreement renewal.
Appears the fight is over global issues related to imposing new gtld requirements to existing legacy gtld's.
http://www.internetcommerce.org/no-urs-at-cat-and-pro/

 

[webdomain]

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/pro-renewal-2015-05-28-en

So this appears to be the section to remove restrictions to the .pro registry... Am I reading this correct? Public Interest Commitments to replace Appendix 11 Registration Restrictions (Specification 11)

see the attached link....public comments are closed and the item looks like its ready to be voted on by Icann fairly soon.

 

[brandnow]

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/pro-renewal-2015-05-28-en

So this appears to be the section to remove restrictions to the .pro registry... Am I reading this correct? Public Interest Commitments to replace Appendix 11 Registration Restrictions (Specification 11)

see the attached link....public comments are closed and the item looks like its ready to be voted on by Icann fairly soon.

hope so!!

 

[mwzd]

This could be huge for .pro if the restrictions are removed.

No reason why it shouldn't make it to the top of the pile of new gtlds.