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About Dot-Biz

.biz -- for businesses

.biz is Run by Neulevel, a commercial company. The rules of .biz require that the intended use of the domain be commercial in nature, and that whoever is registering it actually intends on using it instead of hoarding and reselling it; if they actually can be made to stick, this new TLD won't be subject to as many of the abuses that .com is, and can hence actually gain some meaning.

There are some lawsuits in progress over the .biz launch. As a result of the court action, Neulevel was placed under an injunction against proceeding with its "lottery"-style rollout; this left all names requested by more than one applicant in limbo. However, names with single unique requests were made live. Although the "live date" was supposed to be on October 1, 2001, new names kept turning up in the database at later dates. Live registrations began on November 7 (delayed from October 23), but despite the court injunction being lifted (due to one of the plaintiffs dropping out and the other being unable to come up with enough bond money), the contested names were reserved from registration (but confusingly showed up as available in WHOIS at first, leading many registrars to accept new registrations of them which cannot be completed; they now show up with "dummy" WHOIS records as placeholders). In December, it was finally announced that the "lottery" was cancelled, and a new "round-robin" landrush would take place in March, similar to that of .info with the exception that there isn't a trademark-owners-only sunrise period (but the "IP Claims" of trademark owners are still in effect and require conflicting registrants to explicitly acknowledge them and face the possibility of challenge).

The end result is that speculators had another chance to get some of the more desirable names. However, it should be noted that registering .biz names for the explicit purpose of resale is explicitly indicated as not being a legitimate business use of the domains, so speculators who have no use in mind for the names other than a hope that they become valuable are likely to lose any challenges filed against them. However, some of the registrars seem to have catered to speculators with "inside connections", as they registered large numbers of domains for a small number of clients, leaving out small-timers who merely wanted a single domain.

An alternate registry claims to have created a .biz domain before this one, but yet another alternate registry claims to have created one even earlier, and is yelling about how their domain was "stolen" by the other registry who in turn had it stolen by ICANN. A licensee of the country-code domain for Belize, .bz, which intended to market it for business use, did a lot of whining about how .biz supposedly was an infringement of their rights. Courts didn't put much stock in this, though.