IP: Registration for .Biz Is Delayed

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/22/technology/ebusiness/22DOMA.html

By SUSAN STELLIN


pen registration for Internet addresses ending in .biz, originally 
scheduled to begin tomorrow, has been pushed back to Nov. 7, according to 
the company that manages the .biz database, NeuLevel.
The .biz extension is one of seven new suffixes, called top-level domains, 
intended to provide alternatives to the .com, .net and .org names.
NeuLevel said .biz had been delayed to allow more time to test the 
registration system. But the rollout of .biz addresses has also been 
hindered by a lawsuit contending that a preliminary process for 
distributing the names constituted an illegal lottery because applicants 
had to pay a fee regardless of whether their application was chosen for a 
particular name.
During an Oct. 11 hearing on the case, Judge Anthony Mohr of the Los 
Angeles Superior Court issued a preliminary injunction preventing NeuLevel 
from awarding any .biz addresses being contested by more than one applicant.
Jeff Neuman, director of policy and intellectual property for NeuLevel, 
said approximately 58,000 of the 282,000 names requested during the 
preliminary application period, which ran from June until early September, 
would be affected by the injunction.
He declined to say whether NeuLevel would appeal.


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