Finance industry demands stronger gTLD security measures

06 January 2012

Edward Conlon, London

A financial services industry body has set out 31 security standards that it expects Icann evaluators to apply when assessing finance-related TLDs after April 2012

The Financial Services Roundtable, through its technology division BITS, has recommended policies which it said will create gTLDs more secure than any available to financial institutions at the moment.

BITS has demanded wide-ranging measures including policies explicitly defining what constitutes abusive behaviour and demanding that registrars comply with law enforcement officials.

In a letter to Icann, Paul Smocer from BITS and Doug Johnson from the American Bankers Association said the standards would not necessarily apply to branded financial TLDs (fTLDs). “Branded fTLDs are however strongly...



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