.bz Domain Name

With many of the best .COM domains already taken, .BZ offers fresh opportunities for niche marketing to today’s social consumers. Add video, chat and RSS feeds and start your own Internet buzz!

While .BZ is the official Top-Level Domain for Belize, a Central American/Caribbean nation, it may be registered by anyone.

Why choose .BZ?

• To generate excitement around a new product launch.
• For any business that targets a young, Internet-savvy audience.
• To keep squatters from stealing the brand recognition of your popular .COM by registering the .BZ version.
• If your business caters to Belizean shoppers or businesses.

.bz is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Belize. It is administered by the University of Belize.

At one point, .bz domains were being marketed by an American company as standing for “business”, and that company took legal action against ICANN in an attempt to block the .biz domain as “unfair competition”. Currently, the registry is in Belize, but is still marketing the domain outside the country as “meaning business”. Internationalized domainswith a wide assortment of non-ASCII characters are also available.

A lot of websites in Italy use this domain, because the abbreviation of Bolzano (de. Bozen) and the official abbreviation of the province of Bolzano-Bozen is BZ. Many websites use the Italian subdomain .bz.it. Servers for the Open Sourcegame BZFlag often use names ending in .bz.

There are some second-level domains in use, however these are not required:

• com.bz (commercial)
• edu.bz (educational)
• gov.bz (government)
• net.bz (networking)
• org.bz (organizations)

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