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Act Now to Claim your Dot-Biz Domain

Santa Rosa, CA May 30, 2001, Domain names, like beachfront real estate, have a limited supply. To meet a large demand ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has been trying to increase the number of top-level domains (TLD). In addition to the commonly know dot-com, dot-net and dot-org, seven more dot-somethings will be available. This summer the newly approved domains dot-biz and dot-info become available for purchase.

Dot-biz will be a restricted TLD available only for commercial or business purposes and .biz names are not intended for exclusively personal or non-commercial purposes, according to the May 15, 2001 ICANN news announcement. Dot-info will be an unrestricted TLD, open to any business or person to register for any purpose.

The dot-biz domains will be available to any business starting July 9, 2001, according to Network Solutions. However if you have a registered trademark, and you would like to safeguard your intellectual property by claiming the corresponding dot-biz TLD you may register (for a fee) a Trademark Claim Form until early July. For example, if you own the mark for Asphyxia Corp, you would probably want to claim the asphyxia.biz domain, whether or not you have (or intend to have) a website. Otherwise, once this domain is available on the open market you will have no control over the type of website that is placed at this address. Someone could place a pornographic site where your potential customers would normally look for you. If you claim then buy the domain and never use it, that security costs you between $13-40 per year, depending on where you register your domain name.

If you register your claim, then do not purchase the domain; you will be notified if another business attempts to buy it. Under this service, domain-name applicants will be notified of a trademark owner's claim when they submit an application for a claimed name. If the applicant decides to go ahead with the registration, the business submitting the claim will be notified of the registration and will be given a window of opportunity to challenge the registration using an administrative dispute resolution procedure.

The timeline for awarding the dot-biz domains looks like this: late May through early July businesses can submit trademark claim forms; beginning in July through late September, domain applications will be accepted from all businesses through registrars. These applications will be randomly selected in batches and awarded. In October, .biz names that have been awarded will become operational. A similar process, beginning in June, will be used for awarding dot-info domains.
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