Eligible entities

• Retail bank
• Savings association
• National bank
• Bank holding or parent companies

Other eligible organizations include:

• Associations or groups of associations whose membership is primarily comprised of the above regulated entities
• Government regulators of retail banks, savings associations, national banks or organizations whose members are primarily comprised of such government regulators (if approved by the fTLD Board)

Eligible domains

Registrants may only register domain names matching their trademarks, trade names and service marks.

Registration process

Supporting documents

Registrants will need to provide yearly evidence that they are a member of the banking community (business licence, certificate of formation, articles of incorporation, corporate operating agreement, charter documents, attorney opinion letter, mission statement for non-profit organisation). For banks and savings associations, the assigned regulatory ID and government regulatory authority issuing its charter or licence.

Verification

Verification of eligibility will be conducted at the time of the renewal or every year. Verification is also performed if there is a change to the Registrant Organisation Name. All verification is performed by fTLD, the Registry Operator for .BANK.

Security check

To support compliance with applicable local and international laws, every application will undergo a security check to ensure that fTLD does not approve any organisations or persons found on any government and/or fTLD maintained restricted or black lists.

Organisation, jurisdiction, and banking credentials verification

fTLD will verify that the registrant is a registered and active organisation in a jurisdiction appropriate to its business location and has valid credentials proving that it meets the requirements of the .BANK Registrant Eligibility Policy.

Verification of domain name selection

fTLD will verify that the applied-for domain names match the applicant’s trademark.

Verification of physical address

fTLD will verify the address listed in the application as a valid address for the registrant organisation using fTLD approved databases.

Verification of telephone number

fTLD will verify the registrant organisation’s telephone number using fTLD approved databases.

Registrant contact employment

fTLD will initiate telephone contact to verify with registrant organisation’s human resources (or appropriate department) that the registrant organisation’s contact person is a full-time/non-contracting employee of the organisation.

Registrant contact authority

fTLD will initiate email contact to identify the Registrant Contact’s manager within the registrant organisation with Human Resources (or appropriate department) and contact this person to confirm that the registrant contact is authorised to request domains on behalf of the organisation.

Appeal

Applicant who had their registration requests denied will be able to appeal the decision via a specific process. Please reference the Registrations Eligibility Resolution Policy

Requirements concerning the domain name use

• DNSSEC must be used.
• Registrants must publish a valid email authentication record (SPF).
• DNS alias are only permitted to DNS zone under the same secured requirements (no URL forward to a “regular” host name).
• Transport Layer Security 1.1 or greater must be used.
• SSL 2.0 and 3.0 are explicitly prohibited.
• RFC 5746 must be implemented.
• Please refer to the following: https://www.ftld.com/policies/ and https://www.ftld.com/security/