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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.
Sure, .biz sounds sleazy... but so does Neulevel. Clearly sleaze is not a barrier of entry for these people. I'm sure the CRM and spam folks will dig it too.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
Now the question is...will the existing commercial .com'ers migrate over to .biz? I think it will be some time yet before I try a .biz tld before a .com.
Ceci n'est pas un post
scientology.biz!
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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James Brents
There's a mirror at lucrativedomain.biz
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This sucks
.biz is a redundant domain and a blatant money making scheme for Neulevel.
.com over to .us or another country code over a five year period. Trademarks are register on a country by country basic and domains should be too.
.biz will die in the ass anyway, so my little rant doesn't do anything much any.
Name a business that's not a commercial entity or a not for profit organization. There aren't any. Hence
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.
So would migrating every
Or including multipek fields (Apple (computer) as in computer products, Apple (records) as in music) in a new namespace.
Oh well. I think
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.
.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!
Sure, some new people will take advantage of
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?
utter rubbish
OK, execs, get ready to pay off another round of squatters.
How this going to get?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
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.
.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
One other thing
Cheers!
-Pointed Stick
So every XYZ.com is now going to register XYZ.biz as well, making the whole thing pointless ... for example, even NeuLevel have exactly the same website as NeuLevel.
...
Incidentally, who are the 160,000 companies who have already registered? I've tried IBM, hp, microsoft, sony, slashdot - none of them seem to be available
November 7, 2001 marks a new historic event in domain name suffixes.
.biz is not important at all.
.com on consumers, nor will it be as profitable.
Why? Did something important happen?? Because
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
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...
.biz domain names taken...
Now, I guess that sex.biz will be amongst the very first
Trolling using another account since 2005.
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
** "It's not my job to stand between the people talking to me, and the ones listening to me." -- Pego the Jerk
another verisign... how the hell did neulevel get .us also?
Check it out:
.biz Requester:
.biz domain name applications.
.biz domain names.
Consequently, the .biz Registry, NeuLevel, has "frozen" any domain names where:
.biz WHOis database. The .biz domain names you requested that have been "frozen" are listed at the end of this email.
Dear
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
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
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
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...
...fuckedcompany.com. fucked.biz would be so much easier to type! And so much more appropriate...
Shaun
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
If so, the porn industry there will probably keep the new TLDs commercially viable, cause I don't see a good future for them otherwise.
Shame of Slashdot
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.
Touch everywhere, even when inappropriate.
In recent news it was reported that Microsoft will be shifting all their web belongings to the new domain Microsoft.biz, being that thats all they do anyway and would be more appropriate than Microsoft.net.
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
hmm... well i did actually register this through joker.com just to see what would happen.
heh
fun and chaos
The .biz is good for those making money out of domain registration. As for the companies, they would get two domains for the price of two. I expect most companies to simply forward all requests to their .biz to .com.
At any rate this whole top level domain scheme is fraught with inconstancies. Why is it that everyone except the Americans are happy to use there national TLD ? And most of the .net websites do not belong to service providers or other network related companies. There are very .org sites that can actually be called organisations. We all know about .com.
As one poster suggested earlier, .sex would probably have been a grand idea. It would have made life a lot easier for the net nannies. Also, they should've made it illegal for any p0rn site to register under any other TLD.
.info names are going to appear soon. I wonder who is going to use the .info TLD. I would hardly expect it to be by companies in the domain (pardon my pun) of information provision.
This is just another way for somepeople to make money.
Then again if you want to use really wicked TLDs you can always use an alternative DNS heirarchy like ORSC
I Can Abandon ICANN, So Can You. Use the name servers of the Open Root Server Confederation.
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...hardly a good basis for "serious" business. I wonder if it will shake off this stigma.
I support Elz, but do you have ANY idea of how F***KED the Australian registry are? They are hell to deal with, and unforunatly Elz just makes it worse, if we had a competent resitrar then Elz's rules would be great. However the Australian government has chosen F**ked resistry over reasnoble rules and forcebly removed Elz's control over the .au
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I want to have a free domain for my personal use, research or non-profit project. Why not create a .free or .all? Any ideas for a domain like this one?
------I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either.------
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.
I'm waiting for .jiz for all the porn sites I frequent.
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
"The sophistication of business web sites just got dialed up a few hundred notches. .BIZ, the newest domain on the web, utilizes robust technologies that not only make your address for business more secure, but more flexible to your ever-changing needs.
.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.
.com
.BIZ is here. Welcome to your new home.
THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOB
Security--.BIZ has it.
Ever notice that your security guards use German Shepherds instead of Chihuahuas?
The Right Address--.BIZ has it.
Why isn't your business headquartered in Timbuktu?
Technology--.BIZ has it
Ever notice how your accounting department gave up using the abacus years ago?
.BIZ--a new name space--a new opportunity. "
thats straight from neulevel's site. is it just me (or maybe just me at 3am) or is this all nonsence?
i wonder if neulevel even takes themselves seriously.
read the "why
".BIZ is the first and only global top-level domain (gTLD) 'built for business.'" havn't they ever heard of
this whole thing just makes me sick. sort of like the first time i saw those "sponsored links" filling up the first screenfull of my altavista searches.
.biz -- they can keep it. i'm just waiting for the next big revolution, maybe i'll be one of the ones who remembered when it all began (coarse hashing out VM things 50 years from now'll probubly be fun:) AC was right dammit!)
time to go back to the cave, and try to get some sleep before chem tomarrow.
-Caleb Moore
------I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either.------
.mars wouldn't be any problem, although current rules require a represent from the origin.
Marvin the Martian, maybe?
- Peter Brodersen; professional nerd
"men come from mars and women come from venus", someone said.
------I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either.------
Since Neulevel will have access to the full list of registered domains, they could use this to suggest close matching domain names when someone makes a typo. Certainly more friendly than a 'DNS Error' message.
some good points, i agree. The only exception is if it's owned by a business and the business changes hands. could you imagine company buyouts just to get the domain names :-)
Do Unto Others As You Would Have Others Do Unto You - ONLY HARDER!
how about ogg.vor.biz?
Well the Amazon Rain Forest had a lot of trees, Amazon.com sell a lot of books which means there are now less trees in the Amazon Rain Forest so I guess what they are saying is
"We transfer the Rain Forests to your bookshelf - Amazon because bio-diversity should be read and not seen"
:)
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
I like the sound of it. You gotta admit that .biz doesn't sound like a legitimate bussiness.
Yes thats right, aiming at the secret services and terrorist organisations around the world, the TLD for them its...
.end
Yes the new "Emperors new Domain" domain has all of the advantages of traditional domain names and so much less.
No DNS... yes thats right register your
No connection, yes this is the TLD for those organisations that don't connect to the internet. Got a closed loop controlling your nuclear deterent ? No worries now you can hang out with those cool (but sadly unemployed)
"I love the fact that I can't be found" - Mr Bin Ladle
"Not interested, we like our systems easy to hack" - Mr Cyril Ian Arthur
"My business was a total flop, it really is impossibly to find" - Mr Peter Orn head of sex.end
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
For the past several weeks I have been mercilessly carpet bombed by spammers about .biz domains...
.biz domain from those registrars...
As a result, it will be a cold day in hell if I EVER buy a fucking
Lets say all SPAM from non .biz domains is illegal and its legal from the .biz domain, meaning i would only need to filter .biz mail out.
When does life get so simpel ?
Quazion
...those dot-com guys who were able to pull off inter-bizness transaction worth MILLIONS (okay, on paper). Remember: a good bizness begins with a good name (reference: "Dot-com Bizness Guide", page 1).
<bart
There is absolutely no point to .biz. Can you really get away with having microsoft.biz, or walmart.biz? no, you will be forced to give your domain to those companies, who already have .com.
.com if it's not a bussiness. maybe .per or .add.
There should only be one domain per company.
.sex and some type of personal homepage domain would be much more usefull. bobshomepage should not be a
It's a good thing the world sucks or we'd all fall off.
well, at least someone bought www.vasoftware.biz
When trying to go to .biz domain with links (IMHO the best text-only webbrowser), you have to prefix it with "http://" or it will think you're trying to access a local file
no further comment.
Cool, but useless.
is it me or are the pages just the same as the .com pages? ;)
Privacy is terrorism.
The root of the problem is the idea that one level of hierarchization is enough to solve everything down to the institution level. It's the same problem as unix, were you have about 10,000 files in /bin /usr/bin and other choice locales in the namespace.
I guess people just have trouble thinking in two dimensions. But honest, people, its easier...
What I'd like to see is at least a two level hierarchy, so you have institutions organized in to logical groups:
www.ford.cars
www.gm.cars
www.dell.comp
www.gateway.comp
www.yahoo.portal
www.go.portal
www.google.search
www.lycos.search
etc. Makes a lot more sense to me, but the trouble is you have a lot more administrative overhead. It also solves the multiple companies with the same name problem.
DH
The thought had crossed my mind. But if I remember correctly, isn't that what happened with Netscape / AOL? IIRC, when they bought out Netscape, AOL was mainly just interested in the Netscape.com portal site which at the time was something like the third or so most visited site on the internet. (After Microsoft.com and AOL.com, I think).
Touch everywhere, even when inappropriate.
biz is the same, phonetically speaking, as "bise" meaning kiss.
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Not really, but it's just SOOO rediculous...
-da5id
I still don't see the need for .biz, isn't .com for commercial stuff on the net?
This sig is stolen from someone who had a much better idea than I had.
How about the following for TLD's:
.£ et. al. )
/.'s, let's pool our money and set this up!
.© - for example, riaa.©, mpaa.©
.® - for all the corporations to have product domains (kleenex.®, q-tip.®)
.$ - for all the make-money-quick spammers (they seem to be largly US, but if needed, we can localize them with
Come on fellow
www.eFax.com are spammers
It was kinda funny. Yesterday morning the CEO (I thinks that was his position) of NeuLevel was on the Fox 2 news in Detroit talking about the .biz domains. He was so full of crap, talking about how much .biz can do for companies because it uses new technologies and can "allow business to perform extremely complex, secure transactions", as if its some new TCPIP or encryption protocol. I was laughing at the guy.
.biz domain, and he all but avoided the subject, saying a bunch of bs and concluding with...contact one of our representatives and they will help you. It was like he was afraid to say.
.biz doesnt really do much for you, but I need to plug it so I can make millions providing a service no one needs. So...what can I make up."
Then one of the news anchors asked him how much it would cost to set up a
But the funniest thing was half the time the guy was speaking, it was like he didnt know what to say, as if he didnt even believe in what they were doing. He kept pausing, as if he was thinking "we'll,
Those that promote their product usually have a product worth promoting, support it well and place the value of the business on that product and support.
Those that promote their name are usually the kind that are just out to get money anyway they can, including all of the practices that we've all grown to know and hate here on Slashdot; strong IP manipulation, questionable anti-competative practices and legislative and judicial buyouts.
.BIZ sounds like the kind of name the second type of business would like.
There is nothing so silly as other peoples traditions, and nothing so sacred as our own.
A while ago, I had thought up a domain called "show.com" for a reason I'm not quite ready to release just yet. It was obviously taken. When register.com said I could pre-register show.biz, I was happy as hell. I registered it not even thinking about the fact that I would now own a very popular and much wanted domain for entertainment purposes (showbiz!) It would even appear that there is a copyright on the name "show.biz" for the purposes of entertainment. I have no intentions of using this for entertainment purposes at all, but I already have about 6 Intellectual Property claims against me for the domain. I imagine if I am actually awarded the domain when it is all said and done, I will have lawsuits to contend with.
Anyone got some advice?
Thanks.
Tobin
SL33ZE - Artificial Intelligence is No Match For Natural Stupidity -
Is there some reason there absolutely has to be an acronym for "domain name application"? (Deliberately not capitalized here.) I mean, couldn't they just call them "applications," and when they need to disambiguate, "domain name applications"?
Did these folks ever have to take a biology class in high school or college?
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
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
Knowledge is like ignorance.. too much can be just as bad as not enough.
Neulevel.biz has actually resolved for a few months now. Today, all the other .biz domains went live..
Thank god, no one took it!
www.jiz.biz
[just kiddin']
Get your Unix fortune now!
itsnoneofyour.biz
Agreed... this new domain is simply going to create the same stampede/disputes we have already with the .com, .net, .org, etc. suffices. Although I suppose that it can't cost that much for a company to buy its .biz domain so that it simply points to their existing site.
.biz domain is that it sounds so immature. Given that ICANN itself is not a business, it lacks the perspective needed to make the right choices in choosing the names for these TLDs. .biz sounds like something a little kid might say. I'd rather they have gone with something far more professional, such as .inc or .ltd or the like.
But my main disagreement with this
In case of fire, do not use elevator. Use water!
.inc, .llc, .ltd, .gmbh (if they allow more than three bytes), .sa, and so on?
.npo for non-profit organizations.
And maybe
"How many light bulbs does it take to change a person?" --BMcC-->
Anyone going to buy a .biz domain?
.biz.....
i aint telling you...
...thats none of your
I lost my concept of community when my community lost all concept of me.
- Uh-huh. So a new
.TLD will:
- increase security
- provide superior technology
- facilitate business transactions
Way to go DNS!I'm currently the proud owner of JonnyDigital.com - it's named so because I go by the nick of JonnyDigital online, and so many individuals have registered the dot-com domain for a personal homepage that it no longer stands for 'commercial organisation'.
There's no way I'd buy jonnydigital.name, though. For one, JonnyDigital isn't my name - it's my online nick. For two, there are a bunch of sites out there that are neither for a person or an organisation... what are they supposed to use?
The domain name system kinda sucks... still, at least .net domains are only a dollar apiece, if the seventy spam per week my Hotmail address gets are anything to go by... ;)
Did anyone actually have a go at legal action for Neulevel operating an illegal lottery?
BTW my registrar confirmed that domains under dispute will neither show as available or taken under WHOIS. This seems bloody stupid as there is no way to know whats going on.
As for the IP claims against show.biz how the hell can you prove thats a trademark!!!!!
The whole TLD thing is a waste of time while we let the companies register their name across all the TLD's - whats the point!
....but all they found there was a man who repeatedly said that nothing was true, but was later found to be lying.
Weird; Slashdot screwed up my post. I did close the Pacific Root link correctly, and I even used preview. But I posted from the Preview screen instead of backing up. I suspect there's a bug in preview...
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
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.
.biz names.
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
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
We can go through the entire cycle all over again. The Industry Standard will.. oh, wait.. uhh.. "Smart Company" will tout the virtues of new and innovative
The fearless among us will leave our cushy, well-paid jobs at established companies (wait, there aren't many cushy jobs left, are there?), to try our luck on the merry-go-wheel of the Dot-Biz economy.
After a while, Microsoft will gobble up the first few big Dot-Biz companies. The rest will go through all their funding with no profits to show for it. Most will tank. Angry investors will file lawsuits, alleging that they were misled by exorbitant claims of dot.biz companies.
A few survivors will limp along, and a few will survive. Eventually, someone will come up with the idea of a new top-level domain...
.hyp, anyone?
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
A lot of people have made comments similar comments but at the risk of being modded down -1 Redundant I just have to rant.
.com when the web was new but is part of the problem now that it has grown so large. If .biz or .info have any success businesses are just going to register their name under all TLD's to avoid potential confusion. Ford Motor Co. is not going to let a site about the artist Henry Chapman Ford, the The Ford Diner or the Ford Law firm get the domain ford.biz. It seems the logical solution would have been to create more specific TLD's (ford.law, ford.art) and even more importantly make easier and encourage the use of existing geographic TLD's (i.e. ford.ma.us) for local brick and morter businesses who would find a TLD indicating their physical location a distinct advantage. The only new TLD that seems that it *might* help is .name which could get personal and family domains out of the .com TLD and would also provide those sites protection from companies suing them for the use of their own family name.
I haven't been following the convoluted politics of adding new tld's but the end result seems just spectacularly stupid. There is definitely a need for change but the new domains don't seem like they are going to help much at all. They are too generic which was fine for
With all the spam I've received on it, I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. I hope that no one will buy this sucker due to the crap these loons are trying to pull.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
This trick of referring unresolved addresses to a "Hey! Wanna buy a cheap watch?" website is pretty slimy, too.
So far as I can tell, the .biz registrars and their customers have the ethics and intelligence of a hungry leech. I'm unlikely to even visit .biz domains, much less actually buy one.
Racing is an addiction that makes heroin look like a vague hankering for something crunchy.
Choose .BIZ: "Less recognizable and more expensive." Sounds like a winning advertising slogan!
About the only reason for using it is if someone else has the one you want in .com, etc. Otherwise it's overpriced.
Paul Robinson <Postmaster@paul.washington.dc.us>
The lessons of history teach us - if they teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
So, since I know how great for business a new .biz domain name will be for me, </sarcasm> I went and tried to register around 12:01 11/07. No such luck. Here's what happened to me:
.biz attempts. grr.
First, tried with dotster.com, my registrar of choice; they cater to the sysadmin type, and are usually pretty good. When I tried to start registration there, it did lookups as oof.biz.biz instead of oof.biz. That was a failure.
On to the next try: I hate them with all my heart, but I hoped that they would at least work, since they are the big behemoth. I went to NSI. . They led me through the whole process (credit card verification and all), and then they said "there is an error in your order" and couldn't fufill it. Same with other
Then, on to register.com. It worked there, but now there's nothing in neulevel's whois entries.
WTF?
Anyone else have similar experiences? Anyone have any suggestions on how to verify that I actually have the domain? Or what to do if I don't?
grrr.
--oof.
I keep mistyping .BIZ as .BIX. Can we get NeuLevel to mirror .biz into .bix for the fumble-fingers crowd? It would sure help allieve a lot of confusion.
Edith Keeler Must Die
But mainly because I've got a squajillion spams sitting in my spamtrap telling me I *could* buy one.
.biz with "Shy About You're Pacakge?" Feh.
Makes the whole TLD smell bad to me already. And no, I haven't checked to see if the spams are coming from anybody with a legitimate business related to the rollout. It's just an irrational gut feeling; I now associate
Slashdot's token middle-aged housewife
I have considered the matter at great length, and no, it's not inconvenient for me. What would be inconvenient would be sending email to the domain computer.biz and not knowing which computer.biz it would be delivered to. Does it go to the original owner of computer.biz, or to the owner of the stolen domain of the same name?
To my way of thinking, it should go to the rightful owner, the guy who's had that domain for a few years now. And if it's mailed from my domain, it will.
The inconvenience is for anyone ignorant or foolish enough to buy a Neulevel .biz TLD. They have no way to know that all of their mail will come to them, or that all of their HTML links will lead the user to their web site. That's a game I won't play, and have recommended to my clients that they either buy their .biz from both PacRoot and Neulevel, or don't buy it at all. And it galls me to suggest giving money to Neulevel.
The internet does not belong to ICANN, or to the government who appointed it. I pay my own way, as does everyone else -- the internet is built that way, as a cooperative. But ICANN wants dictatorial powers, rather than cooperation. I will never support that kind of behavior. Inconvenient? Perhaps. Proudly principled? Hell yes!
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Not really. It can be voluntary. Most sex sites would love to be in a .xxx domain.
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
Finally the lamoid spammers which no one can close the hamper on will stop... or at least change their freaking repeating message i get every 3 days warning me that .biz is about to be online and i should register my domain name soon.
.biz is bullshiz. I suggest everyone shy away from .biz and all buisnesses associated with registering .biz. Even better.. ignore .biz all together... and warn anyone trying to use .biz that they are not in the normal suffix search order, that anyone just typing googoo without a . will not search for gooogoo.biz except by browsers that have search engine attempts built into the search bar (a la mozilla-netscape aol)
Im like pisssh..
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