.PRO - Becomes Unrestricted Effective November 16, 2015

[zuratv]

Effective November 16, 2015, .PRO will become an unrestricted TLD, open to anyone. Since its launch in 2002, .PRO eligibility has been restricted to only certain specified professions and registrars have been required to implement special procedures in order to ensure .PRO names were registered to specific professionals. The new contract between Registry Services Corporation and ICANN eliminates these restrictions and procedures, enabling .PRO to compete on a level playing field with the many new TLDs that are marketed to professionals without the same restrictions.

 

[monaghan]

So basically your advantage of having a .pro has been negated as anybody can now join your club.

 

[Systreg]

@ Monaghan, there is a flip side to that as well, it will also mean that people who may not have been able to own a .pro before due to restrictions, will now be able to, so the market may open up more as a result of that.

I wont be buying any though

 

[zuratv]

So basically your advantage of having a .pro has been negated as anybody can now join your club.

!!))
BTW, I just sold Super.pro for 1700Euro..not good deal for me, but needed money...

 

[sdsinc]

I don't think it will make a big difference. For the moment the TLD is little known in spite of its age because it's not carried by the mainstream registrars and thus has limited exposure.