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.biz Domain Lottery on Hold

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bizness-as-usual dept.

kikta writes: "CNN is reporting that the lottery for the .biz domain appear to be in trouble. A judge barred the lottery and ordered the company, NeuLevel Inc., to set aside $3 million for possible refunds."

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  1. Domains are un-ownable, especially .biz by Sloppy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It occurs to me to ask... who owns .biz?

    Nobody. None of this is property, even in an abstract intellectual sense. It is all really just about contracts (however indirect) with ICANN (whose "authority" is completely defacto), ultimately coming down to what ICANN's servers are going to server when they service requests sent to them.

    And if you send your DNS request to someone else's servers you may indeed get very different answers to the same query. foo.biz can point to two completely different hosts, depending on who you ask. Therefore, .biz is not property, and it makes no more sense to talk of someone owning a domain than it makes sense to say someone owns "SELECT * FROM FOO"

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