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Dot-biz gives up and starts again
News The company responsible for dot-biz domain names is scrapping the way it currently allocates them and will start again from scratch in February. Over 500,0000 dot-biz domain names have been issued so far but up to 39,000 applications are still on... [18 Dec 2001]
Dot-biz opens the door to cyber squatters
News The dot-biz top-level domain name went live today as over 160,000 pre-registered names were activated at 00:01 (EST). However, Neulevel, the registrar responsible for dot-biz, is still fighting a lawsuit that claims its registration process is... [07 Nov 2001]
Dot-info available for anyone who wants it
News Dot-biz was also due for release to the public today, but that launch date has now been postponed until 23 October. Neulevel, the registrar responsible for dot-biz claimed that the recent terrorist attacks were still affecting original deadlines... [01 Oct 2001]
Afilias tightens-up on dot-info
News Dot-biz opens the door to cyber squatters http://www.silicon.com/a48968 Amazon faces lawsuit in dot-biz squabble http://www.silicon.com/a46564 The company has decided it is time to tighten-up on those who wish to register for the dot-info domain... [06 Dec 2001]
VeriSign enforces the Icann't party line
Comment It's taken Icann years to get round to delivering dot-biz, in the face of massive demand. So, if VeriSign has the cash cow, why speed the creation of other cash cows like dot-biz? We want dot-biz, dot-shop, dot-game, dot-museum - the whole dot-kit... [25 May 2001]
Domain name registrations now beating dot-com days
News Generic top-level domains like .biz and .name are the poor cousins of the domain name game, with eight per cent of registrations compared to .com's 45 per cent. While domain name carpet-bagging became a sport in the dot-com days as entrepreneurs... [09 Jun 2004]
Congress grills Cerf over Icann bias claims
News Critics claim Icann ignored several obvious choices like dot-web and dot-health, choosing obscure or confusing options like dot-coop and dot-biz instead. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the group responsible for running the... [08 Feb 2001]
Icann to introduce more elite domain names
News During 2002 the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) approved domains such as dot-biz, dot-info and dot-name to ease the clamour for appropriate URLs, with many companies and hobbyists alike finding it difficult to find... [16 Dec 2002]
Dot-travel domain unleashed
News A spokesman for easyGroup, the company behind easyCruise and easyHotel, told silicon.com: "Having spent considerable time and effort establishing our dot-com and co-dot-uk domain names, it would seem to be a dilution to establish new ones... [04 Oct 2005]
Unofficial top-level domain names now available
News The launch coincided with Icann's admittance that the seven new top-level domains it announced in November, including dot-biz and dot-info, are likely to be delayed well beyond the July deadline. Capitalising on the disappointment of the seven new... [06 Mar 2001]
16 March: The most important day in e-tail history?
News Companies wishing to register domains will have to qualify in a fashion similar to those registering dot-biz domains. On 16 March businesses outside China will be able to register dot-cn domain names for the first time ever - providing Western e... [10 Mar 2003]
'Villainous' VeriSign to sue Icann
News The lawsuit comes as Icann's control of Internet addresses and domain names - it is tasked with adding new ones such as .museum and dot-biz - is being challenged. A long-simmering dispute between the two organisations that control the way internet... [27 Feb 2004]
Fake domain name renewal spam warning
News Cambridgeshire Trading Standards and Cambridgeshire Police are now investigating a company calling itself Dot Biz Domain Renewal that was spamming thousands of .biz registrants asking for renewal fees. [07 Jul 2003]
Customers claim refunds over dot-biz domains
News Almost 9,000 UK web users who signed up for a dot-biz domain name are to receive a refund after the original allocation process was deemed to be improper. Worlwide, 40,000 domain names were affected by the ruling, and top level domain name... [20 Feb 2002]
Icann names new domains
News The process of selecting the winners has been dogged by controversy, including a legal challenge in the US which claimed dot-biz was too close to the country-level domain for Belize, dot-bz. The successful new domains are: dot-biz (businesses... [17 Nov 2000]
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