Whatever. The fact remains that the .biz extension is amateur hour. The other fact is that when someone has a professional website or holds themselves out as a professional, if the only way you can reach them is by yahoo or gmail or other generic email address, it takes away from it. You have no idea what you are talking about. How many UDRP's have their EVER been for a .biz name? Get real. The extension is for bottom of the barrel, fly by night, amateurish enterprises.
Back in the day .biz was a solid tld, before you had all the new tld's, we developed almost 10 years ago a company that made a ton of money, it's not amateur hour, but today I would not do any .biz development since we have two brands, 1 and 247, yet that company name is a major term in internet marketing and neither would fit the term.
Now that term we have used as a prefix with niches in IM, but the root phrase is huge, so .com/net/org were long gone even 10 years ago so we probably bought the .biz for low xxxx
Today, it's our corporate identity and hub and we have lots of sites using the term with post position keywords.
Anyway, you're hijacking the thread by bashing the whole tld saying it's a joke and while today it may not be the first choice for development, it sure was 10 years ago, so how long have you been playing in domains and development to have such disrespect for what used to be the top tld outside of com and net, it was even preferred over org.
Again if you actually dealt with lawyers and doctors in volume or owners or almost any business today, you would see how almost 80% use GMAIL, so your comments are not based in reality, gmail is part of how lots of small companies and professionals get their email today.
Does .biz today have a huge value? Not really, it used to have a nice strong value but now with thousands of tld's it's yawn, passe.
Is it better than say .co? It sure is, and we have a corporate site using .co and .us as well as a bunch of .com's with our company name and around 12 industries we are in.
We never bothered with .biz for our root company name but if it dropped I sure would register it.
So 10 years ago we paid low xxxx for a .biz that made millions and today I use the email on it all the time, the site has a ton of development and for that aspect of our company I wouldn't change a thing.
Anyway, to totally dish the .biz tld shows a very short experience curve in domains IMO, there was a lot of money made in that tld and some companies still use the tld.
Now you can sit here and say oh .com or net is better, it sure is, can you operate a profit on .org, you can but that looks wrong to many. .biz is the 3rd best tld for a company, unless you have an industry tld to use.
So even today, I would recommend .biz to some companies if they can't buy the com/net or there is no industry tld or if their industry tld is just too long.
You really like .company it's a 7 letter tld, way too long when you got 2 and 3 character tlds.
You like .marketing it's 9 characters LOL
So you're a company that does marketing, and your name is the main term in marketing today, so the com and net were long gone, even today I would register or buy the .biz over .company or .marketing for one reason, it is branded as short for business, and it's only 3 characters.
For someone to be jumping up and down trashing .biz with a grand total of 25 posts, is actually kind of funny. LOL
