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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. Yay. by Pahroza · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh happy happy joy joy.

    Doesn't feel very historic to me.

  2. Why not .doc or .lnx? or even .apple, .orange? by GdoL · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I would like to see more .something why not .my language and .notenglish for oher guys on the planet, .mars could be an good idea for X-Files!!

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  3. .com is just to prominent for this to work by Pointed+Stick · · Score: 3, Redundant

    I can't imagine this being very successful. .com has become synonymous with the entire internet. Heck, internet startup's are even called "dotcoms" more often then not. I'd be willing to make a sizeable bet that the .com on the back of your address is more important then whatever's in front. Think about all the nonsensical names on the internet. Yahoo! springs to mind, and for that matter what does "Amazon" have to do with selling books? What makes those names successful is the fact that they are easy to remember and easy to spell.

    One other thing .biz will have against it from the very start is the fact that there will always be a more marketable .com version for whatever name you can come up with. What we really need, for obvious reasons, is .xxx

    Cheers!

    -Pointed Stick

  4. Linux.biz, oxymoron? by powerlinekid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder what the future owners of linux.biz will do with the site? I know linus won't claim it because he couldn't care less, but this could be kind of interesting in that nobody else has figured out how to run a business out of linux. (It may not be claimed yet but you know some poor sap who thinks hes gonna get rich is going to... haha... sucker)

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  5. Carpet bombed by .biz spammers by bani · · Score: 1, Redundant

    For the past several weeks I have been mercilessly carpet bombed by spammers about .biz domains...

    As a result, it will be a cold day in hell if I EVER buy a fucking .biz domain from those registrars...