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Survey of Usage of the .BIZ TLD
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posted by md
on Tuesday June 25, @06:32AM
from the dept.
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Domain name expert Ben Edelman is back at it again: Benjamin Edelman writes "Professor Zittrain and
I have recently examined
a variety of data about registrations in .BIZ.
Our major findings are as follows:
- At least 74% of currently registered .BIZ domains provide no web content or provide only error messages or placeholders.
- Approximately 25% of .BIZ registrations are registered to the same organization that registered the corresponding .COM, and such domains are about one-third less likely to provide substantive web content than domains registered by someone without a corresponding .COM registration.
- A large number of .BIZ domains fail to comply with .BIZ registry anti-warehousing policies, suggesting that such policies are not being effectively enforced.
- Registrar market shares vary substantially between .BIZ and other TLDs; while the largest .COM, .NET, and .ORG registrars have large shares of .BIZ, certain other registrars also service many .BIZ names.
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It looks like Jon and Ben jumped to conclusions on this one. No web content does not effectively mean that the domain name is inactive (as pointed out by Mr Ulf Hedlund at the Swedish Domains mailinglist). A lot of domain names are only used for internal purposes or as email gateways.
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My conclusions with Professor Zittrain in our recent .BIZ study are very careful to present exactly what we tested and what can correctly & fairly be concluded from those tests.
Zittran and I agree -- and are well aware! -- that domains can be in active use even when they fail to offer web content. But we never said anything the contrary! (To anyone who disagrees, please send us a cite -- a specific quote, ideally -- so we can attempt to clarify the wording at issue.)
What Michael flags is the questionable validity of one likely inference from our results -- that since many .BIZ domains fail to offer web content, many .BIZ domains likely aren't being used at the present time. Though in principle it's possible that every .BIZ domain without web content is in fact actively used for email, FTP, etc., the practical reality is, of course, that failure to provide web content is likely to be extremely highly correlated with failure to put a domain to active use.
That so many .BIZ domains fail to provide web content is important, we think, in understanding what is (and is not) going on in .BIZ. For example, recalling the fact that of the .BIZ domains registered by folks with the corresponding .COM, even fewer provide web content ("fewer" relative to the other .BIZ domains), we can't help but think there's quite a lot of defensive registration in .BIZ -- and in our future work, we hope to demonstrate this even more convincingly.
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