.bz
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| Introduced | 1991 |
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| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | Belize Network Information Center (managed by University Management Ltd |
| Sponsoring organization | University of Belize |
| Intended use | Entities connected with Belize |
| Actual use | Used for a random assortment of sites, many not in Belize |
| Registration restrictions | None |
| Structure | Registrations can be made directly at the second level as well as at the third level beneath various second level labels |
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| Dispute policies | UDRP |
| Web site | Belizenic |
.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 even unsuccessfully sued 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 domains with a wide assortment of non-ASCII characters are also available.
A lot of websites in Italy use this domain, because the abbreviation of Bolzano and the official abbreviation of the province of Bolzano is BZ. Many websites use the Italian subdomain .bz.it. Servers for the Open Source game BZFlag often use names ending in .bz.
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