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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. A nice mail I received from VeriSign... by sl8r · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Check it out:

    Dear .biz Requester:

    VeriSign understands the personal and professional significance of having a unique online presence. It's our pledge to keep you completely informed about the status of your .biz domain name applications.

    As you may be aware, the Superior Court of Los Angeles, CA, issued a preliminary injunction on October 11th temporarily preventing the activation of certain .biz domain names. Consequently, the .biz Registry, NeuLevel, has "frozen" any domain names where:

    1) Multiple Domain Name Applications (DNAs) were submitted for the same domain name by one individual.

    2) DNAs were submitted for the same domain name by multiple individuals.

    3) One or more Trademark Notification (TN) claims and at least one DNA were submitted for the same domain name.

    For any "frozen" domain names, the registrant has not been selected and NeuLevel has not yet announced when the random selection of registrants will begin. In addition, NeuLevel has not stated how the frozen names will or will not appear in the .biz WHOis database. The .biz domain names you requested that have been "frozen" are listed at the end of this email.

    VeriSign is committed to giving you everything you need for success on the Web. We'll post any updates we receive from NeuLevel at http://newdomains.networksolutions.com. If you have any specific questions or concerns about NeuLevel's domain "freezing" process, please visit www.neulevel.com or e-mail them at support@neulevel.biz

    For those wondering what domain I registered: It's my last name. Isn't it so that family names win over trademarks in a domain name dispute?

    Here's to hoping it is...

  2. Re:Oh Puh-leez by mpe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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)

    Except that .com, .net, .org have in effect been treated as .misc for quite a few years.

    In my opinion, regional domain names do not really make sense, since the whole point about internet is its global reach.

    On the contrary it's non geographic domains which make little sense for a whole set of things. Especially the sale of physical goods, even for non physical goods such as downloadable software or "ebooks" the physical location of the supplier is an important issue both in what currency you use and in the exact contract of sale which is entered into.
    Telephones and "snail mail" also has "global reach", but you don't see demands for everyone to use non geographic telephone numbers and postal addresses (Typically if someone want's a less or even non geographic telephone number or postal address they pay extra for it. Ditto if it has some kind of "vanity content".)