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The ORSC "How To" page shows how to resolve the .BIZ domain (you do know how to use dig, right?):
http://support.open-rsc.org/How_To/

Or you can use SetDNS:
http://www.open-rsc.org/setdns/

The root zone file containing .BIZ (and also containing an ICANN board member's TLD) can be found here:
http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone/db.root or
http://www.superroot.org/root.db

The following "spoofed" addresses also work:
http://www.icann.org&search=gtld&type=all@12017761 667/root.db
http://www.internic.net&search=gtld&type=all@12017 761667/root.db

FYI, the ORSC web site was written in 1997 to meet the US Gov's submission process criteria for the "new corp" (which is now known as ICANN). You are correct, the ORSC site does need to be updated. Instead of a pretty web site there is over six years of consensus and running code in the ORSC root zone. This is preferable to vaporware and marketing drivel driving banner ad counters.

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Hey, I tried

You're quite right it IS (or rather WAS) a typo. The only reason nobody caught it was because it wasn't a typo in the root zone it was a type in my in-addr.arpa zone for 199.166.24. Moreso, since 199.166.24.1 has multiple A records pointing to it and mutiple PTR records (yes, it's legal, really, see RFC 2181) it never affected the operation of the root zone.

Thanks muchly for catching this, I fixed it as soon as I read this. I have long hoped the /. community would in a sense become a part of the alternative root movement. Maybe this is one small step :-)

(Don't forget I'm the same guy that created alt.sex because of a typo - see http://vrx.net/richard/alt.sex.html ;)