.PRO Domain Requirements & Criteria Professionals FAQ - Who can register a .Pro domain name?
- You must be a licensed business professional or business entity to register a .Pro domain. You must be able to provide evidence of your license including:
*Your date of birth
*Your profession
*Your licensing authority
*Your license number
*Your licensing country
- What information will be required from me to register a .Pro domain?
- All applicants will need to submit personal and professional information in order to be eligible for a .Pro domain, including:
Name
Date of Birth or Date of Registration
Profession
Jurisdictional Country
Licensing Authority
License Number
Link to Licensing Authority's Web site
- What are the new .Pro registration rules?
- Previously, second-level .Pro domains could only be registered by professionals in the accounting, engineering, medical or legal fields who were licensed in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom or Germany. Registrants also had to own two third-level domains in different fields to be eligible to register a second-level domain.
On September 8, 2008, the Registry will remove all of these restrictions to allow all professionals and professional entities, who self-certify that they meet the eligibility requirements, to register second-level .Pro domains.
There are no requirement changes to third-level domains.
- Will I be eligible to register second-level .Pro domains (e.g.. mydomain.Pro) under the new registration rules?
- All professionals and professional entities who self-certify that they meet the eligibility requirements are able to register .Pro domains. If you own a business license, you are likely to qualify! You can register if you:
Are a person or entity who provides professional services; and
You have been admitted to or licensed by a government certification body, or jurisdictional licensing entity recognized by a governmental body; and
That body or licensing entity requires that its members be licensed or admitted to provide services; and
You are in good standing.
To determine if your business is eligible to qualify, the general idea is as follows. As long as the organization provides the service associated with its registration identification, and meets all eligibility requirements outlined in the domain registration agreement, the organization is eligible to register a second-level .Pro domain. For example, a customer's business license states that they retail running shoes will be eligible if they use the .Pro domain to sell shoes.
- Can a .Pro registrant be a professional organization instead of an individual professional?
- A .Pro registrant may either be an individual professional or a professional organization. When the registrant is an organization, the organization can use its registration identification (e.g. business license) as its professional eligibility contact information. As long as the organization provides the service associated with its registration identification, and meets all eligibility requirements outlined in the registration agreement, the organization is eligible to register a second-level .Pro domain. For example, if a customer's business license states that they retail running shoes, the customers business will be eligible to register if they use the .Pro domain to sell shoes.
- Who can register a third-level .Pro domain name?
- At this time, only members of the engineering, medical, legal and accounting professions are eligible to register third-level .Pro domains.
The .Pro professional eligibility requirements are intended to restrict domain name registrations within the .Pro top-level domain to persons and organizations that are licensed or otherwise credentialed by the appropriate government agencies or organizations to provide professional services to the public in the legal, medical and accounting fields.
* Eligible registrants may register one or more of four major profession-specific domains:
Engineers: .eng.pro
Attorneys: .law.pro, .jur.pro, .bar.pro
Accountants: .cpa.pro, .aca.pro,
Physicians: .med.pro
In the future, additional variations of these domains will be available to take into account local, professional and linguistic differences in the various regions in which .Pro domain names are offered.
- Where is the registration eligibility criteria specified?
- The .Pro eligibility criteria are established in the Registry's Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). RegistryPro, the operator of the .Pro top-level domain will establish registry policy in consultation with an Advisory Board made up of representatives of professional organizations. It is the responsibility of registrants to provide truthful and accurate information about their professional status when registering for a .Pro domain name.
- What are the basic eligibility criteria?
- To be in compliance with the professional eligibility requirements, a registrant must be either:
An individual who is currently licensed as (i) an engineer, (ii) a Certified Public Accountant, (iii) a physician (including a medical doctor), or (iv) an attorney at law, who is currently licensed to practice in any of the following supported jurisdictions:
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Germany;
or
An organization that provides engineering, accounting, legal or medical professional services, and has an employee who satisfies one of the above criteria and registers on behalf of such entity or organization.
- Examples of such organizations include: engineering consultation firms, accounting firms, hospitals, legal publishers, medical supply companies, or law departments of large companies.
- Registrants outside the supported jurisdictions are eligible for Defensive Name Registrations. Additional jurisdictions will be added shortly. All .Pro domain name registrants must remain in compliance with the professional eligibility requirements at all times during their registration.
- Can a third-level .Pro registrant be a professional organization rather than an individual?
- A third-level.Pro registrant may either be an individual professional or a professional organization. When the registrant is an organization, there must be a .qualifying professional. who meets the normal eligibility standards for an individual registrant. This individual must certify that they are an employee of the registrant organization and that the organization provides services related to the individual's profession.
- To implement the .Pro Professional Eligibility Requirements, 101Domain will:
- 1. Require that each Registrar certify that as a condition to registration of a .Pro domain name, that the professional eligibility of each registrant is verified.
2. Require that each registrar's agreement with registrants include terms and conditions relating specifically to .Pro domains (for example, regarding professional eligibility and the requirement that the registrant remain in good standing in his/her profession throughout the term of their domain name registration). Examples of such terms and conditions can be found in the Registration Agreement.
- What personal and professional information will a registrant have to provide to the Registry to successfully complete the authentication and verification process known as the "AV Check"?
- Professional Eligibility: All registrants of resolving .pro domain names must demonstrate that they meet the professional eligibility requirements of the .pro registry. Eligibility is demonstrated by presenting a set of personal authentication and professional verification (A/V) data. The accuracy of the A/V data must be verified, and it must be confirmed that the individual indicated by the A/V data is aware of and authorized the initiation of the check. This person must be given the power to approve or veto any actions, such as completion of the registration of a domain name that may be taken as a result of a successful check.
A .pro registrant may either be an individual professional or a professional organization. When the registrant is an organization, there must be a qualifying professional who meets the normal eligibility standards for an individual registrant. This individual must certify that they are an employee of the registrant organization and that the organization provides services directly related to the individual's profession.
The following A/V data must be provided to the Registry for the subject of the A/V check:
First Name
Last Name
Date of Birth
Profession Type
Country of Jurisdiction
License Number
Licensing Authority
The Registry will email the customer directly with the results of the A/V check and will include instructions on how to obtain an email or Web site digital certificate to use with the domain name.
Please Note: As authenticating and validating a potential .Pro registrant is a costly process, the cost of a .Pro third-level registration includes a non-refundable A/V service provided by 101Domain. The Registry will process the information that is submitted through the online A/V interface and if the check fails, an additional A/V request must be submitted by 101Domain at a cost of $100 USD.
Source: www.registrypro.pro/
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