Register a .sx domain
.sx is Sint Maarten's ending — a favorite of the island's gaming industry, open to anyone regardless of address. Sint Maarten is the Dutch half of a Caribbean island built on cruise tourism and, increasingly, offshore online gaming — and its ccTLD followed the industry's lead precisely because it's short and unrestricted. Nobody needs a local address or business filing to register one.
Who picks .sx?
- Tourism, real estate, and hospitality operators actually serving Sint Maarten
- Online gaming and igaming operators drawn to the island's licensing scene and a short ending
- Brand owners after a distinctive two-letter domain hack, geography aside
What it signals
A .sx usually means one of two things: a genuine stake in Sint Maarten — tourism, real estate, hospitality — or a foothold in the igaming world, which has gravitated to .sx harder than most ccTLDs thanks to the island's licensing scene and the ending's punchy two-letter shape. Plenty of buyers also just like the two letters and have no island connection at all.
Pros
- Fully open registry — no residency, presence, or paperwork required to register
- Renewal rate fixed at signup and held, not discounted-then-hiked
- Two letters that work as a domain hack on their own, not just a geographic marker
- Public WHOIS redaction applied automatically wherever the registry allows it
- SPF/DKIM/DMARC configured on setup, no add-on purchase needed
Watch-outs
- Recognition is niche — most people outside gambling and Caribbean-tech circles won't place .sx as Sint Maarten
- Flat pricing cuts both ways: it won't beat a promotional first-year rate elsewhere
- WHOIS field-level redaction support varies by registry, so full masking isn't guaranteed the way it is on some gTLDs