Adult Block

Reliable protection against misuse of your trademarks

Adult Block

Maximum protection
for trademark domains

Domain blocking is a new form of trademark protection in which the ability to register a domain name is blocked to prevent unauthorized use. It provides a defensive mechanism that companies can use to protect a brand from being misused.

Reselling domain blocking services helps your customers protect their brands while providing you with additional revenue.

Extended brand protection
at all tlds of adult entertainment

Typographic and homoglyphic variants in over 20 fonts

Protection from reputational damage, cybersquatting,
Phishing & Malicious Code

Protection against misuse of brand names for .ADULT, .PORN, .SEX and .XXX

Domain blocking itself is a very simple concept. Theoretically, registrants can achieve a similar result by manually registering all domain names that contain a particular trademark or variations of the trademark in different gTLDs (so-called “passive registration”). However, there are services now available that take over this process. The blocking of a domain differs from the registration of a domain to the extent that the blocked name of a trademark as well as different variations in spelling are excluded from registration. This prevents third parties from registering the domain. The trademark is protected from fraudulent use.

Anyone with a brand name, trademark or a certain level of recognition should understand domain blocking as an essential part of their online strategy. The better known a brand is and the more valuable it is, the more likely it is to be attacked. This makes it all the more important to protect it.

Protecting a brand is not just about fending off threats: Control over one’s own name creates a high level of professionalism that increases customer trust and loyalty. By having a domain strategy that includes all relevant gTLDs while respecting homoglyphs and spelling variants of a brand, the integrity of your brand is reliably protected online.

.XXX Sunrise B Blocks (or SRBs for short) have so far prevented domain registrations matching trademarks under .XXX. They will expire on December 1, 2021. This could put trademark owners at risk of their domains being misused if expiring SRBs are not switched to AdultBlock or AdultBlock+.

  • Proactively protect a brand against the risk of reputation damage, misidentification, cybersquatting and phishing by blocking the trademark for the 4 adult entertainment TLDs, .ADULT, .PORN, .SEX and .XXX.
  • Cover all labels and variants
  • Brand owners can protect the intellectual property of their brands for 1 to 10 years
  • Premium domains can be blocked without additional costs
  • Great savings compared to the cost of defensive domain registration

Enables blocking of terms with exact match for the four TLDs .ADULT, .PORN, .SEX, and .XXX.

Allows blocking of terms with exact match plus variations for the four TLDs .ADULT, .PORN, .SEX, and .XXX.

This option offers even better protection, as all variants that are confusingly similar to the trademarked term (e.g. duplicate characters, missing characters or spelling errors) will be blocked.

Covered variations include all designations (labels) in a given SMD file and/or Sunrise B block, as well as any additional similar-looking names, including homoglyphs and IDNs – which can mean up to thousands of variations for each label.

  • Any brand that participated in the original .XXX Sunrise B
  • Any trademark that has a current Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) Signed Marked Data (SMD) file.
  • Brand owners can protect the intellectual property of their brands for 1 to 10 years
  • Premium domains can be blocked without additional costs
  • Great savings compared to the cost of defensive domain registration

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