any actual .BIZ domains in use?

[HeavyLifting]

curious if anyone can give examples of companies that are using .BIZ tld for real marketing or commerce.

-a company that owns .biz for IP protection and redirects it to another tld would not count.

-an adsense or PPC 'site' would not count.

-a template site, antena booster site, RX site, or other 'BS' site would not count - these should be real businesses.

thanks!

 

[think]

As seen on cabs in newyork city:

Paris.biz
Hotels.biz

Others:

Billboard.biz
DanNelson.biz (car sales)
SBJ.biz (Southern Business Journal)
GamesIndustry.biz

 

[Theo]

sex.biz ?

 

[Leading Names]

There are quite a few out there...

ImageHost.biz (even gets OVT with extension)
Global-Reach.biz
Amsterdam.biz

- Rob

 

[StuntPope]

There are quite a few out there...

ImageHost.biz (even gets OVT with extension)
Global-Reach.biz
Amsterdam.biz

- Rob

BlackNet.biz

 

[yesonline]

osim.biz
They own osim.com but redirects to osim.biz and marketing with .biz also.

 

[izopod]

Be encouraged by what you see... Most of these sites appear to be medium to small businesses from all sorts of industries. There are a few big fish in there...

http://www.freestylephoto.biz
http://www.searchenginestrategies.biz
http://www.fmam.biz
http://www.papercut.biz
http://www.homejournal.biz
http://www.torontopost.biz
http://www.usi.biz (They needed the 3 letters, but the .com was gone)
http://www.nsba.biz (They also use nsbaadvocate.com--in time though..)
http://www.textads.biz
http://www.ktima.biz
http://www.h2cars.biz
http://www.itssimple.biz
http://www.screentalk.biz
http://www.fanmail.biz
http://www.filipinalady.biz (lol--mail order brides!)
http://www.spiralgraphics.biz
http://www.numerica.biz
http://www.mdinto.biz
http://www.fcsa.biz
http://www.zenitel.biz
http://www.autoloan.biz
http://www.minyo.biz
http://www.vintagelingerie.biz
http://www.cmit.biz (needed 4 letters and the .com was gone)
http://www.monitorresearch.biz
http://www.intersky.biz
http://www.kyhomes.biz (Interesting...a lot of real estate .biz sites..go figure)
http://www.djembe.biz
http://www.metalfurniture.biz
http://www.reddoor.biz
http://www.cathead.biz
http://www.warioware.biz (pretty cool)
http://www.spiritualist.biz (this is no b2b site!!)
http://www.greenmountainpower.biz (a long name no less)
http://www.gatchina.biz (russian site)
http://www.nynp.biz (NYC organization)
http://www.cd-burner.biz
http://www.imagepoint.biz (german site)
http://www.minimus.biz
http://www.mason.biz (another example of what to do when the .com is gone)
http://www.returnpath.biz
http://www.i-dna.biz (palms casino owns the .com..a day, dollar short)
http://www.pinkweddings.biz (common occurence SEEQ...owns the .com)
http://www.diplomarbeit.biz (german site...curious if this is a ppc page)
http://www.packrat.biz (definitely a small business--the .com is a ppc page)
http://www.avinci.biz (german)
http://www.cafecacao.biz (small business..another small biz actually owns .com)

I could keep going...but this is a pretty good snapshot of various uses for the .biz url address.

 

[HeavyLifting]

great list. thanks for doing that. very informative.

 

[izopod]

great list. thanks for doing that. very informative.

No problem... I have been following specific .biz names very closely lately...

 

[Duke]

I've been very surprised by my own .biz sales this year. They are keeping up with my .info and .us sales and several have gone into 4 figures. Most of the buyers are small businesses that have been priced out of the .com market for the same terms. I hope .com prices keep rising because that has the effect of pushing more of the smaller entities to alternate extensions. These people don't have $50,000 to spend but they do have $500-$2,500 and that is still a very healthy markup over what it cost to acquire these domains.

 

[mole]

.COM is starting to look very retro.

 

[izopod]

.COM is starting to look very retro.

Are you saying www.anywhere.biz looks metro, and www.anywhere.com looks retro? :-O

 

[mole]

Are you saying www.anywhere.biz looks metro, and www.anywhere.com looks retro? :-O

huh pod? Are you metrosexual???

 

[Steen]

huh pod? Are you metrosexual???

:blush:


Re: .biz
Websites that benifit from email traffic often use the .biz tld.

 

[mole]

- these should be real businesses.

Too many to quote, but here is one serious biz that says it all:

http://www.showcase.biz

The .COM version, as normal, sucks.

 

[adoptabledomains]

Here's a list by the .biz TLD

 

[skylight]

i also find that many spamming email have their affiliate site using .biz