Symantec Chosen as Verification Agent for .bank and .insurance TLDs

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Symantec Chosen as Verification Agent for .bank and .insurance TLDs

By CircleID Reporter
December 10, 2014, 5:55 am PST Views: 7,019 Add Comment

fTLD Registry Services, LLC has announced an agreement with Symantec Corporation to provide verification services for the “.bank” and “.insurance” generic top-level domains. According to the report, Symantec will be responsible for adding a layer of protection to the new domains by verifying the eligibility of companies requesting domain names, making sure the person requesting the domain name is authorized by the company and ensuring the name requested by the company complies with fTLD’s policies.

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