.biz

Industry:	TLD
Founded:	2001
Country:	USA
Website:	http://www.my.biz

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.biz is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) name system of the internet Domain Name System (DNS) primarily intended for businesses.

Background

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) introduced .biz gTLD in 2001 to relieve the registration demands from the .com, .net. and .org TLD's. It is also intended to provide options for businesses whose preferred names were already registered in the .com domain space.

On December 8, 2006 ICANN designated Neustar as the only registry operator for .biz gTLD until 2012. Neustar administers and manages the operations of the .biz registry including the SRS, DNS, and WHOIS. The company also provides technical and marketing support to all registrars accredited by ICANN as well as the development of specific policies for the .biz TLD.

During the 32nd ICANN International Public Meeting in Paris, Neustar announced that .biz TLD reached more than 2 million registrants worldwide on June 23, 2008.

On September 8, 2010, Neustar launched the .biz DNS security extensions(DNSSEC,) which uses public key cryptography and digital signatures to protect consumers from possible harmful threats in the Domain Name System (DNS) and the Registry Lock service, which gives domain name registrants a two-layer, gated protection from "domain hijacking."

Registration Requirements

There are no special registration requirements to register a .biz domain name as long as the domain name will be used by registrants for business or commercial purposes only.

.biz International Domain Names (IDNs)

The .biz registry offers IDN registration in 15 languages which include:

1. Chinese
2. Danish
3. Finnish
4. German
5. Hungarian
6. Icelandic
7. Japanese
8. Korean (Korean Reserve Names)
9. Latvian
10. Lithuanian
11. Norwegian
12. Polish
13. Portuguese
14. Spanish
15. Swedish

Top-Level Domain

Internationalized Domain Name