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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. Re:Let me be the first to say it: by SCHecklerX · · Score: 1, Troll
    If namespace limits are a concern, then fix the registration policies in the US. In Au, a clever fellow called Robery Elz banned the registration of generic words, and limited the amount of domains a single company could use. This would go some way towards solving the problem.

    Limited them? The limit should be ONE!. Why does ANY company need more than one domain (other than parent and holding companies)????

    That is why DNS is tiered, dammit. If I am foo.com, then I might have east.foo.com, west.foo.com, and then things like mail.east.foo.com, mail.west.foo.com (geography) or perhaps firstfloor.printers.foo.com, secondfloor.printers.foo.com (by device type in a small company) etc. And internally they can use a fake domain if they really want to. That's what I do here at home.

    Damned clueless bastards.