What does our .BANK Domain Mean?
11/05/2025
What does our .BANK Domain Mean?
For several years now, The Savings Bank’s website URL has been www.TheSavingsBankOhio.bank. A .BANK URL reflects our dedication to keeping our customers and their information safe from bad actors!
There are millions of websites that have a .COM domain, but only thousands that have .BANK. In the digital age, it is important for banks to be able to differentiate themselves from everyone else, especially scammers. To do so, banking and security experts created the .BANK domain that “serves as a solid foundation for banks to securely and effectively communicate with customers, stakeholders and regulators” (ABA.com).
Acquiring a .BANK domain isn’t easy either! To get one, banks must go through an extensive process and meet specific requirements. They are as follows:
- Be a regulated financial institution such as a state, regional, or national bank supervised by a government authority
- Pass an extensive verification process to prove their organization is a legitimate financial institution
- Register through an official, accredited registrar
- Submit documentation verifying their organization’s legitimacy and compliance
- Meet security requirements such as
- Using .BANK servers,
- Using strong encryption algorithms,
- Requiring the more secure HTTPS, and
- Upgrading web servers.
These measures not only ensure that the bank being registered is secure, but that bad actors cannot register a scam or spoof website.
What does this mean for customers of The Savings Bank? Registering our .BANK domain means that customers of The Savings Bank can confidently communicate with us online! Our .BANK domain means that
- Customers can know they are not being redirected to a fake bank website,
- Customers can be confident that our website has undergone extensive security and encryption review to meet the standards of a .BANK domain,
- HTTPS encryption protects sensitive data, and
- We have a verified “badge” of trust much like a .GOV domain for official government agencies.
Furthermore, these measures are not just a “one and done” review. The registry service continuously monitors our security compliance to ensure we are following best practices to protect our customers’ data.
Every time you visit our website and see the .BANK domain, you can be sure that you are visiting a verified and safe website to do your banking—and if you don’t see the .BANK domain indicated at the end of our URL, it means you may be on a spoofed website! Always be sure to access our site directly at TheSavingsBankOhio.Bank!
The Savings Bank takes protecting you and your data seriously and upgrading our domain to the .BANK is just one of the many active steps we have taken to do so!
Sources:
https://www.aba.com/banking-topics/technology/dot-bank/why-bank