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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. Oh Puh-leez by ajuda · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How many domains to we really need? This is sooo obviously a marketing ploy to get everyone to spend more money on domains they don't need. Owners of Ford.com will buy Ford.biz, Dell.com will soon have dell.biz. Are they any better off for .biz? Of course not.

    Sure, some new people will take advantage of .biz domains. But now users have to remember even longer addresses for each website. Let's see, did I want to go to Shopping.com, shopping.org, shopping.net, shopping.biz or shopping.info? Enough already!

    1. Re:Oh Puh-leez by smaughster · · Score: 5, Insightful

      >. Let's see, did I want to go to Shopping.com, shopping.org, shopping.net, shopping.biz or shopping.info? Enough already!

      Actually, this is a consequence of earlier mess-ups with domain names. I mean, we are currently "blessed" with domain names which are either regionally focussed (.uk etc.) or fall into a few large categories (.com/.org). In my opinion, regional domain names do not really make sense, since the whole point about internet is its global reach. Furthermore, the most well known domain names (.com, .org) are used as collection bins where everyone with a site wants to fall in. It would make much more sense if the rules for domain name categories were held more strict and if these categories were made more clear.

      I mean, the distinction between .gov and .edu is clear, but .com or .biz? But if we keep holding on to the "few different domain names is good" idea, instead of "quite a few easy but understandle domain names is good" then this problem will remain.

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    2. Re:Oh Puh-leez by mgv · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Regional codes make sense when your business is regional - eg., your local video store, or even the local head office of an international business. Likewise the .gov.au makes alot of sense as compared with .au.gov.

      So, in my opinion, regionalisation makes sense for regional stuff. Which is why you need and have a .us, althogh it is underused.

      I'm hoping that all the dot.com startups that bought out every .com/.net name are running out of money by now and will at least open up the chance everyone getting a more memorable TLD than MyPreferredURLIsAlreadyTaken.com

      Michael

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  2. .biz is booming ... by ninewands · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As registrar for the new TLD Neulevel will undoubtedly make a TON of money as companies with significantly valuable trademarks rush to protect the value of their IP by registering all possible .your_TLD_here preceded by their trademark.

    Or am I just a cynic?

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  3. sleezy? not interested? what if.. by peculiarmethod · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It could be almost anything and nay saying it to death will impose a self-f-blahblah.. Think of it- musicians grab their bands name as a biz, get a tax ID and a bank account.. put up a site for small time distribution. Sell CDs, give away MP3s. If enough bands (replace with alternative underdog in the corp. contractual world) use this method of distribution, it could _possibly_ be one of many small rifts needed to shift the power away from those that lobby for all of these dandy property and censorship laws. Take their money away through new channels, it may adapt into something wonderful. Don't kill the chicken before it's crackin man.

    Pego

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  4. DNS is not ready for gajillion TLDs by Vortran · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it just me, or is the commercial greed machine putting the cart before the horse, here? DNS was never meant to support a plethora of TLDs. The push for 20, 30.. or 300 new TLDs will require a directory service (which I'm sure M$ will be MORE than happy to provide).

    Don't you think we should hold off on creating new TLDs until AFTER we've created an Internet Directory System (or something) to replace DNS?

    And I should also mention that if you are looking for someone's web site, you really only have a few choices today. What is National Semiconductor's main web site URL? Anyone care to guess? How many guesses will it take if we have 30 more TLDs?

    Needless to say, I really think adding TLDs is not a good idea for DNS.

    Vortran out

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  5. DNS security by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Insightful

    read the "why .biz" section of the site. how can they promise this: "- Secure your peace of mind; your .BIZ name won't be hijacked and changes can't be made to your website without your approval." i'm sure this is what execs want to hear, but i think that even they can see that the TLD has nothing to do with how secure their web servers are.

    Haven't you ever heard of 'domain hijacking'? It isn't when someone breaks into your computers and changes your website, but rather when someone issues a fraudulent domain transfer, giving them control of your domain name.

    There was a real problem with this with NSI, and sometimes people lost their domain names for good. Assembly, Neulevel's statements indicate that they have got some system in place to prevent this from occurring with .biz names.

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