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Angry Black Man writes: "November 7, 2001 marks a new historic event in domain name suffixes. Neulevel's press release is reporting that the .biz domains went live last night at 12:00." And if you can follow that link, I guess they're live for you too. Anyone going to buy a .biz domain? .info might be used, but .biz just sounds silly/sleazy to me.
scientology.biz!
rush to protect the value of their IP by registering all possible .your_TLD_here preceded by their trademark.
Why bother? You can wait until someone else buys it, *if* they buy it, then call them cybersqatters etc. and get the domain.
But probably they'll just rush as you said...
...fuckedcompany.com. fucked.biz would be so much easier to type! And so much more appropriate...
Shaun
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
So what you're saying is
.biz are resolve to 209.173.53.173?
All your
Okay, sorry, I couldn't resist! (:
Touch everywhere, even when inappropriate.
The blurry dead eyes of the folks at the top of the screen scare me...
I'm waiting for .jiz for all the porn sites I frequent.
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
[~] edwin@k7>telnet blaatblaatblaat.biz smtp
Trying 209.173.53.173...
telnet: connect to address 209.173.53.173: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
Oooooh damned damned damned! That would be big spam-fun!
Edwin
bash$
Yes thats right, aiming at the secret services and terrorist organisations around the world, the TLD for them its...
.end
Yes the new "Emperors new Domain" domain has all of the advantages of traditional domain names and so much less.
No DNS... yes thats right register your
No connection, yes this is the TLD for those organisations that don't connect to the internet. Got a closed loop controlling your nuclear deterent ? No worries now you can hang out with those cool (but sadly unemployed)
"I love the fact that I can't be found" - Mr Bin Ladle
"Not interested, we like our systems easy to hack" - Mr Cyril Ian Arthur
"My business was a total flop, it really is impossibly to find" - Mr Peter Orn head of sex.end
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
My company's gifted IS department blocked xxx.soton.ac.uk. I phoned them up to get it unblocked, and the techie on the end of the phone asked me repeatedly if this was a sex site. God damn. I mean God damn. How dumb do you have to be to not just type it into a browser and see, and how dumb would I have to be to phone IS, give my name, and as for a "sex site" to be unblocked.
Er, sorry, this turned into more of an anti-IS rant. I had a point when I started, but it escapes me. ;-)
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
How about the following for TLD's:
.£ et. al. )
/.'s, let's pool our money and set this up!
.© - for example, riaa.©, mpaa.©
.® - for all the corporations to have product domains (kleenex.®, q-tip.®)
.$ - for all the make-money-quick spammers (they seem to be largly US, but if needed, we can localize them with
Come on fellow
www.eFax.com are spammers
"No, Sir, Mr. Investor. We are not one of those worthless dotcoms, we are a dotbiz - see the difference?"
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
Yeah I went to microsoft.biz and sure enough there was a banner (with a freaky blurred photo of two people with no eyes, shiver) and an offer to buy. Well, shucks, if microsoft doesn't want it, can I buy it??