New TLD .INSURANCE

Protection, trust and security for the global financial community and their customers.

Eligible entities

• Insurance company
• Insurance agent/agency, broker/brokerage or other equivalents (e.g., intermediaries, representatives)
• Insurance 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 insurance companies, insurance agents/agencies, brokers/brokerages or other equivalents (e.g., intermediaries, representatives) 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 that correspond to a trademark, trade name or service mark of the applicant in bona fide use for the offering of goods or services, or provision of information, in the jurisdiction where the applicant is licensed, approved or certified to conduct business.
• Registrants are not permitted to register a reserved name.
• Registrants are not permitted to deceive or cause material detriment to a significant portion of the global insurance community, its customers or Internet users. Further and in compliance with the Name Allocation Policy, domain names registered in the Qualified Launch Program and Sunrise periods must exactly match the trademark record in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) and have a valid Signed Mark Data file issued by the TMCH.

Registration process

Supporting documents

Registrants will need to provide evidence to verify their eligibility to register a .INSURANCE domain name. This information may include, but is not limited to:

• Full legal name
• Business name
• Business address
• Business telephone
• Business email
• Other proof of identity necessary to establish that the applicant is an eligible member of the insurance community (e.g., business license, certificate of formation, articles of incorporation, corporate operating agreement, charter documents, attorney opinion letter, mission statement for non-profit organisations).
• For insurance companies, the assigned regulatory ID and government regulatory authority issuing its charter.
• For agents/agencies, brokers/brokerages and other equivalents (e.g., intermediaries, representatives), the assigned license ID and government regulatory licensing agency issuing its permission to act as an agent/agency, broker/brokerage or other equivalent (e.g., intermediary, representative).

• 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” hostname).
• Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.1 or greater must be used.
• SSL 2.0 and 3.0 are explicitly prohibited.
• RFC 5746 must be implemented.
• Please link to the following https://www.ftld.com/policies/ and https://www.ftld.com/security

Premium domain name registration pricing notification

Non-standard domains have non-uniform registration and renewal pricing such that the registration fee for a non-standard domain name registration may differ from the registration fee for a standard domain name registration in the top level domain.