.swift Domain

The .swift domain extension covers global financial messaging infrastructure, the area where the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication works. It is a closed namespace, so only SWIFT and its affiliates use it. Banks and their partners rely on messaging like this, so clearly genuine addresses matter.

SWIFT can use the extension for the internal activities that support its role as a global provider of financial messaging infrastructure. Those activities sit under governance and controls that keep every domain name consistent with the closed model. No outside party can register a name, which rules out lookalike addresses under the extension. For SWIFT, that means every .swift address can be traced to its own organization, and the model is simple to sustain over the long term.