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.biz Open For Biz

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-your-.biz-are-belong-to-.us dept.

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.

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  1. All domains resolve! by DaSyonic · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lookup ANY .biz domain, even random characters. It resolves, to 209.173.53.173, which the web server there says basically: "Hey, want to buy this domain?"

    Now to me, That is just NOT acceptable, and totally is NOT how DNS for a TLD should be done!

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    1. Re:All domains resolve! by Penguin · · Score: 5, Informative

      ... and furthermore, the webserver gives a "200 OK" as a response for a non-existing domain and no expire-date in the HTTP-header. Although no "Last-Modified"-header is supplied and the page might not be at all that cacheable, it is just plain wrong giving such a "correct" answer for a page that shouldn't exist in the first place.

      It seems that the "security", NeuLevel provides, doesn't concern themselves.

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    2. Re:All domains resolve! by midom · · Score: 5, Informative
      It will have plenty of negative impact.

      • SMTP sender check is no longer valid.
      • Instead of bouncing 'domain not found' messages smtp servers will have to wait until port 25 responds (argh, tons of mail in queues, tons of bounces later)
      • Scripts checking for existing domain (host) names will have to be redone to check the stupid damn undocumented IP address instead of normal NULL answer in resolver libs... Guys, this isn't only domain registration (more banners for registrars page) thing!
      • Rest in peace John, but the organisation you left isn't listening to your advices and design. Your voice is required here.
      • It is not standards conformant. Internet should be based on standards, because without normal common language we won't be able to talk.

      I am working for ISP in .lt, that also focuses on web hosting and mail solutions and in both spheres I really hate what happens right now. As well as unneeded .biz TLD - maybe it has some urgency in USA where guys forgot they've got local TLD (.us) and even classified ones.

      I hated new.net with their new suffixes, but right now I'm really angry about what official institutions (ICANN) are doing - adding banners to non-existing A records. Pals, this is application implementation, how it should display non-existing pages, not network information backend's.

  2. Oh C'mon! by thesolo · · Score: 2, Informative

    November 7, 2001 marks a new historic event in domain name suffixes.

    Why? Did something important happen?? Because .biz is not important at all.

    In all seriousness, this is going to be the biggest top-level domain FLOP ever. All this amounts to is more spam for me to report to Spamcop. People need to realize that no other domain is going to have the same effect as .com on consumers, nor will it be as profitable.

  3. "Anyone going to buy a .biz" by mirko · · Score: 2, Informative

    They (ICANN ?) actually refused the opening of the .sex level which would have been a good way to just differentiate between pr0n and other websites...
    Now, I guess that sex.biz will be amongst the very first .biz domain names taken...

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  4. Re:Damned Spammers.......... by PyroMosh · · Score: 5, Informative

    So true... I run a lot of sites among them, some adult sites and what we've all been waiting for is some kind of adult oriented TLD. .sex or .xxx or .whatever. I mean what does it take?

    - The sex industry wants an adult TLD
    - US Congress wants it
    - Keep our kids safe censor the net extreamists want it.

    I havn't heard anyone that DOESN'T want it! When ICANN had their little circle-jerk summit last year to discus something like 30 or so sudgested new TLDs, everyone was CERTAIN which ones they'd pick! And did they pick even one of the obviously most useful ones to giving ORDER to the net? No. It's times like this that I just want to go back to dialup BBSes! I wish that ICANN would handle domains the way that 800 numbers are handled. You CAN'T buy or sell them. If it's available, you can register it, but if you don't want it any more, you can't transfer it to another party, it just goes back into the pool. The only exception is if it's owned by a business and the business changes hands.

    If you asked me, that's the way to do it. It'll take care of the cybersquating problem right there.

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  5. I've been seeing .biz for a long, long time! by asackett · · Score: 5, Informative
    Open Root Server Confederation has been showing the first, original, REAL .biz for a long time now. I will never see any of Neulevel's colliders.

    I Can Abandon ICANN, So Can You. Use the name servers of the Open Root Server Confederation.

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  6. Not only .biz resolves by jankol · · Score: 1, Informative

    They aren't alone on this - lookup any .nu domain and it will lead you to 212.181.91.6 / 64.55.105.9 and tell you that "The domain name, .nu, is for sale!".

    That sort of thing is just plain annoying.

  7. Use for french speaking people by sconest · · Score: 2, Informative

    biz is the same, phonetically speaking, as "bise" meaning kiss.

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