What is .statebank?
Brand TLDs operate under Specification 13 of ICANN's registry agreement. It lets a trademark owner keep every second-level name for itself, so you won't find .statebank names for sale at any registrar.
.statebank entered the DNS root zone on April 16, 2016, 10 years ago. It came out of ICANN's New gTLD Program, the 2012 application round that grew the root from 22 generic TLDs to well over a thousand.
STATE BANK OF INDIA also runs one other TLD, including .sbi.
On the technical side, .statebank is served by 4 authoritative name servers, every one of them reachable over IPv6. It is also DNSSEC-signed: the root zone carries a DS record for .statebank, which lets validating resolvers check its answers cryptographically. Registration data is published over RDAP and WHOIS (the WHOIS server is whois.nic.statebank).
Same registry, other endings
1 other TLD shares this operator.
.statebank FAQ
What country is .statebank?
None. .statebank is a generic top-level domain, so it isn't tied to any country.
Who owns the .statebank domain extension?
STATE BANK OF INDIA operates .statebank as its registry, under a registry agreement with ICANN.
When was .statebank created?
.statebank was delegated to the DNS root zone on April 16, 2016.
Is .statebank a valid domain?
Yes. .statebank is an active top-level domain in the DNS root zone, delegated in 2016, so .statebank addresses work in every browser.
Can I buy a .statebank domain?
No. .statebank is a brand TLD under ICANN Specification 13, so names are reserved for STATE BANK OF INDIA.
Is .statebank DNSSEC-signed?
Yes, the root zone holds a DS record for .statebank.
Sources
Data from IANA root zone version 2026102000. Last changed August 16, 2023. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
