A minimum of 36 financial TLD applications are aiming to get a “dotBANK” name approved by ICANN. Besides the community-based “.BANK” string applied for by ABA/BITS and its rival application from dotSecure, a number of strings ranging from .UBANK to .NETBANK are more or less trying to achieve the same. Most applicants play safe, by using their companies and already established brand names, like BARLAYS, ICBC, EVERYBANK, PICTET or ANZ. Most surprising: PayPal Inc. is not applying for the .PAY string, which is nonetheless applied for by a Russian funded Swiss entity. PayPal pushes the string “.SOFTBANK”, stemming from its Japanese partner. Here is a list of  36 banking related finTLDs we identified from ICANN’s  disclosure on June 13th, 2012.

A look into round 10 of ICANN new gTLDs with a run-up to 100’000 domains… http://www.business2community.com/tech-gadgets/100000-new-gtlds-alter-global-branding-models-0138391

EFAMA applauds EU Commission decision to protect European ISIN data users. Read the press release below.

A free look-up mechanism was suggested as one solution. It would enable the application of the ISO 6166 standard without necessarily having to obtain a copy of the entire database.

http://www.bis.org/publ/cpss100.htm for the publication – and read our comments to understand the reasons that this could become a dotLEI or better dotLegID.

. If you need help or have questions, contact secretariat@corenic.org. We consult in benefits and risks involved in running your own gTLD.

“Security watchers are calling on net governance body ICANN to adopt a new top level domain name to be used exclusively by registered banks and financial organisations.” This statement is from 2007 – now we are closer to implement.

time is flying, a few weeks left….

In the current environment where an overwhelming amount of cross-border transactions take place outside financial exchanges, it is no longer sufficient to rely on the national naming concepts. It is logical, in this respect, to rely on global numbering agencies and the parties making their identifier codes available. Governance and supervision costs will subsequently drop.

International Securities Identification Numbers (ISIN) are used to identify debt securities, shares, options, derivatives and futures, based on the international standard ISO 6166.