Companies have 30 days to buy matching domain names.
The .Sex top level domain name has exited sunrise and is now available to more registrants.
From now until October 30, anyone who owns a .xxx domain name can register a .sex domain name. Also, if you paid to block your .xxx name during the .xxx Sunrise B program, you can now register the matching .sex domain name.
ICM Registry, which operates .xxx, .adult, .porn and now .sex, originally planned to hold back any domain name matching an existing .xxx name. This would allow the .xxx owner to unlock the domain if they wanted to. However, the standard ICANN new top level domain name contract didn’t allow for this. ICM was unable to convince ICANN to change the contract, which means people who expected to have this unlock capability now only have a 30 day window to do so.
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