The Launch Periods of .XXX:

I. Sunrise

• There will be two concurrent tracks (A and B) within the Sunrise period for .XXX Domains.
• The sunrise period is for trademark owners to opt-in or opt-out of .XXX.
• The sunrise period will run for up to 30 days commencing early September 2011. And it will be for simultaneous participation by those within the sponsored community and those outside of it.
• Sunrise Pricing:
  
  Sunrise A:
  
  • Sunrise Start: September 7, 2011 (duration 30 days)
  • Sunrise A Pricing: Non-Refundable Application Fee of 136.85* (net: 115.00) USD/Application
  • Plus the Annual Registration Fee of 101.15* (net: 85.00) USD per Domain/Year for ALL PRICE CLASSES
  
  Sunrise A_Grandfathering:
  
  • Sunrise Start: October 24, 2011 (duration 10 days)
  • Sunrise A_Grandfathering Pricing: Non-Refundable Application Fee of 89.25* (net: 75.00) USD/Application
  • Plus the Annual Registration Fee of 101.15* (net: 85.00) USD per Domain/Year for ALL PRICE CLASSES
  • Sunrise A_Grandfathering Eligibility: For Sunrise A_Grandfathering applicants using a domain name to qualify, it will be a requirement for the domain to have been registered prior to February 2010 and be in active, bona fide use with an eligible website or service that comports with the definitions of sponsored community.  Active bona fide use with an eligible website or service will exclude domain names primarily used for parking, link farming or forwarding to a site operated by a party other than the applicant or where the registry believes the registration has been made primarily for the purpose of a bad faith attempt to qualify under the sunrise allocation policy.  The grandfathering domain name will be required to be an Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) TLD registered at the first applicable level that can normally be registered with commercial providers of registration services in the TLD.  Registrants of higher-level names registered by private operators of registered names such as ‹example›. blogspot.com, and registrants of names in “alternative” non-IANA root systems will not qualify.
  
  Sunrise B:
  • Sunrise B [basically a defensive registration]: A one-time fee of 238.00* (net: 200.00) USD/Application
  • Sunrise B: If the Trademark during Sunrise B is validated successfully, a block will be applied to the string, however without any ownership or annual registration fee.  A successful application to block a domain name by a single qualified applicant under Sunrise B and not subject to a competing application from a sponsored community applicant under Sunrise A, will be designated “reserved – trademark” or similar.  It will be removed from the pool of names available for registration in future phases of the registry operation and the WHOIS information will simply list standard registry information. The corresponding domain name will resolve to a standard informational page indicating the status of the domain name as not available for registration or similar. Allowing the domain name to resolve is designed to prevent “synthetic DNS” or non-DNS resolution systems, from hi-jacking queries to these domain names.  Note: In the event that there is more than one qualified applicant under Sunrise B , the name will be reserved in exactly the same way as if there were only a single applicant and there will be no refund or apportionment of fees amongst such applicants.  A domain name applied for by a single qualified applicant under Sunrise A, and not subject to a competing application from an applicant under Sunrise B, will be allocated to the applicant.
  • IMPORTANT:  In the event you do not wish to register your .XXX Trademark domain during Sunrise A or Sunrise A_Grandfathering, an excellent alternative is to register it during Sunrise B in order to avoid any abuse of your Trademark, once the registry is opened to the public. There will NOT be any ongoing costs once the domain was successfully registered during Sunrise B, as it is solely a ONE-TIME FEE.

COMPETING APPLICATIONS AND IP CLAIMS:

If a name is subject to reservation by at least one Sunrise B applicant, any Sunrise A applicant for the exact same domain name will be notified of this, and will have the opportunity to withdraw the application(s) for the domain name.  Also, the corresponding Sunrise B rights holder will be notified of the Sunrise A application for the domain name.  Should the applicant proceed with registration, then the Sunrise A applicant will not be able to claim lack of notice in any subsequent dispute proceeding.

Registration of the domain name to the Sunrise A applicant will proceed subject to the sunrise A applicant’s actual notice of such claim.

In the event that a domain name is subject to competing applications by at least two Sunrise A applicants then the domain name will be auctioned among all qualified applicants. The registry will not be running a first come first served approach to the sunrise - all sunrise applications will be viewed as having arrived at the same time.

II. Landrush

• Landrush Start Date: October 24, 2011
• Multiple Applications for the same domain will go to auction
• Landrush Pricing:
  
  • Non-Refundable Application Fee of 89.25* (net: 75.00) USD/Application
  • Plus the Annual Registration Fee of 89.25* (net: 75.00) USD per Domain/Year for ALL PRICE CLASSES

III. Go-Live

• Go Live Start Date: December 6, 2011
• Domains will be allocated ona  FCFS (First-Come-First-Served) Basis
• GO LIVE Pricing:
  • Reseller:  $101.15* (net: 85.00) USD per Domain/Year
  • Premium: $95.08* (net: 79.90) USD per Domain/Year
  • Platinum: $81.29* (net: 73.90) USD per Domain/Year

Though no official date has been set by the Registry, Sunrise is estimated to be in September 2011.  More details will be provided as HEXONET receives information from the Registry. For more information, please visit ICM Registry.

More information on the .XXX Launch: VIEW or view the WhitePaper on the Launch HERE. 

* The GROSS price includes Germany's 19% VAT; many resellers pay the lower NET price without VAT.