Whois Trustee Privacy

Protect your customers against spam, identity theft, and data gathering. Every domain name registration requires contact information be provided for storage and to be displayed in the international Whois database. This means that anyone in the world can view the name, address, phone number, and email owning a domain without restriction on this database. Enabling Whois Trustee through Hexonet, protects your customers by making their information private.

Available TLDs

Trustee Registration

Many TLDs require a local geographical presence in order to register a domain under that specific TLD. In most cases, a local presence is required for either the owner or the admin-c (Admin-Contact) of the domain. In order to overcome this barrier and make specific TLDs unrestricted, Hexonet offers Trustee Services for several TLDs which require a local presence. Depending on the TLD, the Trustee Service is then either added to the existing contacts, or replaces one or more of the WHOIS contacts. Once replaced the Trustee acts on behalf of the registrant and thereby makes a registration of that specific TLD possible.

Domains Protected Marks List (DPML)

Donuts Inc., one of the largest portfolio applicants of new gTLDs, has a domain-blocking program designed to help companies protect their brands and IP rights. The DPML program prevents cybersquatting by allowing brand and trademark owners to block all second level registrations across all Donuts (and Rightside Registry) TLDs with one trademark submission!

DPML protects trademark holders at a fraction of what it would cost to defensively register all Donuts TLDs individually. The current DMPL product covers over 240 extensions and includes former Rightside TLDs.

Trademark Clearinghouse

Protect your trademark online.

The simple and easy way for Trademark Holders to register and protect their brands with NewTLDs. Submit trademark information to a single and centralized repository either through Hexonet's API or Control Panel. Upon verification of a trademark's credentials at ICANN's Trademark Clearinghouse, Trademark Holders will be able to protect their brands through a Sunrise Service and a Trademark Claims Service.

Verified trademarks will be be able to register their respective domain name during a preordering period of any NewTLD (Sunrise period) and have the option to be notified if someone, or another entity, registers a domain name that matches their record in the Clearinghouse.

Protect your customer's trademarks as a Hexonet Reseller.

.XXX Sunrise B blocks (SRB)

.XXX Sunrise B blocks (or short SRBs) which prevent domain registrations matching to trademarks under the .XXX TLD will expire on December 1, 2021. This could expose brand owners to domain abuse if they do not convert expiring SRBs to either an AdultBlock or AdultBlock+ product.

Per default, SRBs in our HEXONET/RRPproxy backend expire automatically, contrary to the handling at the Registry. That means, instead of having to actively prevent your SRB from converting to AdultBlock automatically on Dec 1, 2021, you can choose if you would like to convert your SRB to AdultBlock. This makes it more convenient and allows you to avoid paying for something you don’t want to buy.

Understanding AdultBlock and AdultBlock+

The AdultBlock and AdultBlock+ products are the new rights protection blocking services provided by the ICM Registry specifically for brandholders. They are designed to provide Trademark owners with enhanced protection in the adult themed domain name spaces of .ADULT, .PORN, .SEX and .XXX.

Both products block domain registrations, where domains are not currently registered. This includes premium domains and future registrations of already registered domains. For registration and renewal, both products are available from 1 year up to a 10 year period.

AdultBlock: allows you to block domain registrations with exact match terms across four adult themed TLDs: .ADULT, .PORN, .SEX and .XXX.

AdultBlock+: allows you to block domain registrations with exact match terms and its variants. across four adult themed TLDs: .ADULT, .PORN, .SEX and .XXX. The level of protection is increased with this option; it adds the ability to block all variants that are confusingly similar to the trademarked term (for example: duplicate characters, missing characters or misspelling).

Variants covered are all labels in a given SMD file and/or Sunrise B block, plus all additional look-alike names generated using the Unicode Consortium standard including homoglyphs & IDNs - potentially tallying in the thousands for each label. To check all protected variants for a given trademark, please visit ICM variant search tool (add link to the word “tool” https://adultblock.adult/trademark-variant-search/) These services allow you to protect your brand from reputational damage, cybersquatting and phishing under these TLDs.

Features

Benefits

Brand owners can protect their brands intellectual property from 1 to 10 years.

Both services will allow brand owners to block premium domains at no extra cost.

A brand owner can proactively protect their brand against risk of reputation damage, confusion, cyber squatting, and phishing by blocking trademark labels across 4 adult themed TLDs.

AdultBlock customers can experience large savings when comparing the cost of defensively registering the domains.

Customers using AdultBlock+ no longer need to choose which domain labels they want to protect their brand against, as all labels and variants are covered.