Are there any real differences between a .com and .biz site?

biz restriction

• Dear Sir/Madam I have read all about biz restriction but i am still not sure can i buy these domains and then sell.At first i thought its not allowed but then i saw many biz domains for sale on Afternic.com site.Is it just example when theory and practice are not the same. Thanks Nik

• Answer:

  Hi there, Yes it is okay to sell a .biz domain name. What is not allowed is buying the .biz domain name for the purpose of selling it. AfterNic does have thousands of them for sale: http://www.afternic.com/index.cfm?a=auctions&sa=tld&tld=biz - and it appears most of them are breaking the rules. And they can get away with it as long as nobody complains. If the domain name is very generic, then it would be unlikely that anyone would bother complaining. "Any allegation that a domain name is not used primarily for business or commercial purposes shall be enforced under the provisions of the Restrictions Dispute Resolution Process." http://www.neulevel.biz/ardp/docs/reg_restrictions.html The official information can be found at Neulevel.biz: ------------------------------------------- Do .BIZ domain names have any restrictions? Yes. The .BIZ domain can only be used for a "bona fide business or commercial use". A bona fide business use is one of the following: To exchange goods, services, or property of any kind; In the ordinary course of trade or business; or To facilitate (i) the exchange of goods, services, information, or property of any kind; or, (ii) the ordinary course of trade or business. Registering a domain name solely for the purposes of (1) selling, trading or leasing the domain name for compensation, or (2) the unsolicited offering to sell, trade or lease the domain name for compensation does not constitute a "bona fide business or commercial use" of that domain name. For illustration purposes, the following do not constitute a "bona fide business or commercial use" of a domain name: Using or intending to use the domain name exclusively for personal, noncommercial purposes; or Using or intending to use the domain name exclusively for the expression of noncommercial ideas (i.e., registering abcsucks.biz exclusively to criticize or otherwise express an opinion on the products or services of ABC company, with no other intended business or commercial purpose). from http://www.neulevel.biz/faqs/biztld_qa.html --------------------------------------------------- Search strategy: biz ://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&newwindow=1&cat=&q=biz&sa=N&tab=dw I trust this answers your question. Feel free to ask for any clarifications you may require. Best wishes, robertskelton-ga