REGISTRANT ELIGIBILITY POLICY
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Title: Registrant Eligibility Policy
Version Control: 1.0
Date of Implementation: 2015-03-16

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Summary

All domain names registered in the .BANK gTLD must comply with this Registrant Eligibility Policy (the“Policy”). This Policy sets forth the classifications of businesses and organizations that are permitted toregister domain names in .BANK, and a non-enumerated list of documents that they may be requested
to provide to establish their eligibility. This Policy also incorporates an appeals mechanism by which abusiness or organization that has been denied eligibility may seek a review of that denial.
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Qualified Registrants

The following for-profit and not-for-profit businesses or organizations are initially eligible to registerdomain names in .BANK:
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State, regional and provincial banks that are chartered and supervised by a government
regulatory authority;
Savings associations that are chartered and supervised by a government regulatory authority;
National banks that are chartered and supervised by a government regulatory authority;
Associations whose members are primarily comprised of entities identified above in 3.1, 3.2 or3.3;
Groups of associations whose members are primarily comprised of associations identified abovein 3.4;
Service providers that are principally owned by or predominantly supporting regulated entities
identified above in 3.1, 3.2 or 3.3. (if approved by the Registry Operator Board); andGovernment regulators of chartered and supervised banks or savings associations ororganizations whose members are primarily comprised of such government regulators (ifapproved by the Registry Operator Board).
Registrant Documentation

As part of the registration process, Applicants will be required to provide certain information to Registry
Operator, or its designated third-party service provider, to verify their eligibility to register a domainname in .BANK. This information may include, but is not limited to, the following:
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Full legal name:

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Business name:

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Business address:

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Business phone:

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Another proof of identity necessary to establish that the Applicant is an eligible member of thebanking community (e.g., business license, certificate of formation, articles of incorporation,
corporate operating agreement, charter documents, attorney opinion letter, mission statement
for non-profit organization):

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For banks and savings associations, the assigned regulatory ID and government regulatory
authority issuing its charter or license.

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Compliance with Laws – Unqualified Registrants

Registry Operator, a limited liability company formed and domiciled in the United States (U.S.), mustcomply with all U.S. laws, rules, and regulations. One such set of regulations is the economic and trade
sanctions program administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Departmentof the Treasury. These sanctions have been imposed on certain countries, as well as individuals andentities that appear on OFAC's List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the SDN List).
Registry Operator is prohibited from providing most goods or services to residents of sanctionedcountries or their governmental entities or to SDNs without an applicable U.S. government authorization
or exemption.
Registry Operator, in its capacity as a global registry operator, must take into account all applicable laws,
rules and regulations in the jurisdictions where it operates. As such, Registry Operator reserves the rightto deny or cancel registrations based upon relevant sanctions, programs or standards administered
and/or supported in other jurisdictions.
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Prohibition Against the Use of Proxy/Privacy Registration Services

Registry Operator is committed to ensuring that .BANK is administered in a secure and stable mannerand that the Whois data of domain names in .BANK is reliable, accurate and up-to-date. Therefore,
Registry Operator expressly prohibits the use of proxy or private domain name registration services in.BANK by Applicants and Registrants. Additionally, neither Registrar nor any of its resellers, affiliates,
and/or partners shall be permitted to offer proxy or private domain name registration services in .BANK
which would prevent Registry Operator from having and displaying true and accurate Whois data.
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Appeal

Any business or organization whose request for registration has been denied based upon this Policy may
appeal this decision through the Registration Eligibility Dispute Resolution Policy available on/via
Registry Operator’s website.

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Amendment

Registry Operator reserves the right to modify this Policy at its sole discretion in accordance with its
rights and obligations set forth in its Registry Agreement. Such revised Policy shall be posted on Registry
Operator’s website at www.ftld.com/policies/ at least 15-calendar days before its effective date. In theevent that a Registrant objects to the any change in this Policy, the sole remedy is cancelation of thedomain name registration.

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Registrant Eligibility Policy Implementation Guidelines
Date: 2017-04-21
Registry Operator may impose restrictions related to use of the domain name in .BANK by Registrants inaccordance with Registry Operator’s Acceptable Use / Anti-Abuse Policy to protect the best interest of
the global banking community and the customers it serves. Accordingly, Registry Operator imposes thefollowing use restrictions for Registrants eligible under Section 3.6 of this Policy: use of the domainname by Registrants must predominantly support Regulated Entities as described herein.
Registry Operator’s implementation of Section 3.6 of this Policy defines Service Providers“predominantly supporting” the regulated entities identified in Sections 3.1, 3.2 or 3.3 of the Policy(together, “Regulated Entities”) as organizations that provide (i) Software as a Service (SaaS) to
Regulated Entities (i.e., a software delivery model service integral to creating a seamless online banking
service for the customers of Regulated Entities) or (ii) credit card, debit card, or other bank payment
processing and/or settlement processing between Regulated Entities (i.e., bank-to-bank). Further andrecognizing the complex legal frameworks that some members of the global banking community utilize
in their operations and governance, bank holding and parent companies supervised by a relevantgovernment authority are hereby considered service providers given their role predominantly
supporting Regulated Entities and pre-approved by the fTLD Board of Directors in a resolution throughtheir authority granted by Section 3.6. Bank holding and parent companies are not subject to use
restrictions. A service provider organization is eligible for a domain name in .BANK if (1) it plays a keyrole in a Regulated Entities’ online banking infrastructure services or payment/settlement services and(2) its customers or the beneficiaries of its services are predominantly Regulated Entities, such as:•businesses (e.g., core processer, technology services provider) whose services are integrated in
the systems and/or infrastructure (e.g., information management, electronic commerce) ofRegulated Entities;•businesses whose services are not integrated in the systems and/or infrastructure of RegulatedEntities, but predominantly support Regulated Entities as described herein; and•businesses who services entail facilitating or providing threat information to Regulated Entities.

For example, a technology services provider that claims its customers represent a broad range ofindustries including financial services, retail, healthcare, energy, environmental, etc. would not beeligible for a domain name in .BANK as its customers or the beneficiaries of its services are notpredominantly Regulated Entities.
The following is a representative list of examples of Service Providers that are eligible to register adomain name in .BANK:
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FIS
Fiserv
Secpoint
Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis CenterSWIFTVocaLink

Notwithstanding this Implementation Guidance, the Registry Operator Board retains the rights in its solediscretion to approve or deny the eligibility of all services provider requests under Section 3.6 of theRegistrant Eligibility Policy.
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