At one point, .bz domains were being marketed by an American company as standing for "business", and that company took legal action against ICANN in an attempt to block the .biz domain as "unfair competition".[1] Currently, the registry is in Belize, but is still marketing the domain outside the country as "meaning business". Internationalized domains with a wide assortment of non-ASCII characters are also available.
Many websites in Italy use this domain, because of the abbreviation of Bolzano, the capital of the province of South Tyrol, and the fact that the official abbreviation of the province is BZ. Many websites use the Italian subdomain .bz.it. Servers for the Open Source game BZFlag often use names ending in .bz.
this, article, about, level, domain, file, extension, bzip2, internet, country, code, level, domain, cctld, belize, administered, university, belize, introducedseptember, 1991, years, 1991, typecountry, code, level, domainstatusactiveregistrybelize, network, i. This article is about the top level domain For the file extension see bzip2 bz is the Internet country code top level domain ccTLD for Belize It is administered by the University of Belize bzIntroducedSeptember 3 1991 32 years ago 1991 09 03 TLD typeCountry code top level domainStatusActiveRegistryBelize Network Information Center managed by University Management LtdSponsorUniversity of BelizeIntended useEntities connected with BelizeActual useUsed for a random assortment of sites many not in BelizeRegistration restrictionsNoneStructureRegistrations can be made directly at the second level as well as at the third level beneath various second level labelsDispute policiesUDRPDNSSECyesRegistry websiteBelizenicAt one point bz domains were being marketed by an American company as standing for business and that company took legal action against ICANN in an attempt to block the biz domain as unfair competition 1 Currently the registry is in Belize but is still marketing the domain outside the country as meaning business Internationalized domains with a wide assortment of non ASCII characters are also available Many websites in Italy use this domain because of the abbreviation of Bolzano the capital of the province of South Tyrol and the fact that the official abbreviation of the province is BZ Many websites use the Italian subdomain bz it Servers for the Open Source game BZFlag often use names ending in bz There are some second level domains in use however these are not required com bz commercial edu bz educational gov bz government net bz networking org bz organizations It also might have use for typosquatting for misspellings of biz domains See also editInternet in BelizeReferences edit Order in Economic Solutions Inc v ICANN ICANN 13 September 2000 Archived from the original on 21 December 2007 Retrieved 22 November 2007 External links editIANA bz whois information ICANN advisory about lawsuit bz Requirements and FAQs nbsp This Belize related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This Internet domain name article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title bz amp oldid 1169545368, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
