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Is Dot-Biz Really a New Domain?
"Gallegos, who works for Atlantic Root Network, is happy to sell you a domain name with a 'dot-biz' suffix. The current cost: A handy $6 a year." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
www.wired.com/

.biz Domain Registration a Complete Shambles
"The registration process for the new .biz TLD is so convoluted that even professional registration companies have no idea what is going on." By Kieren McCarthy. [Register]
www.theregister.co.uk/

ICANNWatch: Class Action Alleges ICANN's .biz Is an Illegal Lottery
A class action lawsuit was filed earlier this week alleging that the .biz registration process is an unfair and deceptive trade practice because it is running as an illegal lottery.
www.icannwatch.org/

Atlantic Root Network
Domain name registration for the .biz, .online, and .etc alternative top level domains.
www.biztld.net/

OpenNIC: ICANN's .biz
Archived debate by OpenNIC members over whether to peer ICANN's .biz collider or honor their prior agreement to peer Pacific Root's .biz.
scoop.opennic.unrated.net/

When Worlds Collide: The New Dot-Biz and the Old
"It seems the new dot biz domain conflicts with domains registered in an alternative root system." News and archived discussion. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/

Dot-Biz: An Illegal Lottery?
"In a class action lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court, Newman is charging that Internet regulators, the company managing the dot-biz domain and a list of more than 30 individual registers are conducting an illegal lottery for valuable online property." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired]
www.wired.com/

Original Dot-Biz Registrar Protests ICANN TLD Assignment
"ICANN's selection of the new TLD '.biz' has angered the owners of the Atlantic Root Network (ARN), a company that already offers the .biz suffix as part of its alternative root network." [AdLaw]
www.adlawbyrequest.com/

.biz Is Tiny -- or Is It?
Dueling accounts of the size of the PacificRoot .biz TLD. [ICANNWatch]
www.icannwatch.org/

ICANN Movie, The
Satirical series of Flash movies about ICANN. Part II focuses on the .biz dispute.
www.paradigm.nu/