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Classic generic extensionSince 2001

.biz domain registration

Short for business: a general extension for commerce, short and direct, saying you sell or offer a service; an alternative when your name is taken in .com, if you know its reputation’s limits.

Score card

.biz in six cells

Our score out of five, as we see it when we help a customer choose.

Trust
3 out of 5
Easy to remember
4 out of 5
Global reach
3 out of 5
Price stability
5 out of 5
Short names available
3 out of 5
Local meaning
1 out of 5

Overview

What is .biz

.biz entered the internet’s root in 2001, and its name is short for business, written as it sounds. Its meaning speaks to commerce in every form: a small company, a shop, a service office, or a new project that wants an address saying it is a business, not a hobby.

Its manager in the IANA record is Registry Services, LLC, and it supports DNSSEC signing, but it has no table for Arabic letters in IANA’s records, so a name in it is Latin letters, digits and hyphens. Its price with us is the same for the first year and every renewal.

What you should know, frankly: its reputation with some mail filters is mixed, and some people see it as a second-rate alternative to .com. So it serves you better as an extra name or a campaign address than as the only address for your company and its email.

Type
Classic generic extension (gTLD)
In the root since
June 26, 2001
Name’s origin
business
Responsible body
Registry Services, LLC
Who may register
Anyone, person or organization, from any country
DNSSEC
Supported
Names in Arabic
Not supported

Who it suits

For your field: is .biz the best fit?

Every field has an extension that says something about it. Here is what .biz says in each, and which extension completes it.

  • A small company or shop

    Good · A good fit

    It says you are a business in three letters, and you may find your name in it as is when it’s taken in .com.

    Register it with.biz.com

  • A local business in Qatar

    Good · A good fit with .com

    .biz says you trade, and .com is the first thing your customer in Qatar types out of habit; register both.

    Register it with.com.biz

  • A service or consulting office

    Good · A good fit

    It says you serve businesses; if your work is purely professional, .pro is closer to it.

    Register it with.biz.pro

  • A campaign or limited offer

    Good · A good fit

    A short extra name for a campaign or a product, leading to your main site without carrying your email.

    Register it with.com.biz

  • A company or brand

    Consider another · Consider .com

    A brand that wants to grow needs the extension everyone trusts, and email the filters don’t treat strictly.

    Register it with.com.company

  • An online store

    Consider another · Consider .store

    Buyers pay where they feel safe, and .store or .com says “store” with more trust.

    Register it with.store.com

What it does for you

What you gain when you register it

  • Says “business” in three letters

    An abbreviation people understand: here is a company or a shop, not a blog or a hobby.

  • Your name may be free here

    When the name is taken in .com, you may find it in .biz as is.

  • An address for your campaign

    A short name like bazar-alkhor.biz for an offer or a campaign, leading to your main site.

  • Protect your business name

    Register your company’s name in .biz so a competitor can’t take it and stand beside you.

And where its value shows

On the shopfront

Three letters read from afar.

In ads for offers

A short address for an offer, leading to your site.

On the business card

Says you’re a business before your name is read.

In messages and chats

A short link, sent and clicked without hesitation.

Pros and cons

What you should know before you register

Frankly, as we’d tell a customer who asks us before registering.

Pros

  • 01Three letters that clearly say “business”
  • 02In the internet’s root since 2001
  • 03Your name may be free in it when it’s taken in .com
  • 04One price with us, the first year and every renewal
  • 05Supports DNSSEC signing

Cons

  • 01A mixed reputation with some mail filters
  • 02Some people see it as a second-rate alternative to .com
  • 03Doesn’t support names in Arabic
  • 04Less widespread and less remembered than .com and .net

Rules

Registration terms for .biz

What the registry requires and what we add, in one place.

Who may register
Anyone, person or organization, from any country
Documents
None required
Name length
Up to 63 characters
Characters
a–z, digits and hyphens, never first or last
Names in Arabic
Not supported
Registration term
1 to 10 years
DNSSEC
Supported
Privacy protection
Optional, for a separate fee
Transfer
60 days after registration or the last transfer, with an EPP code; adds a year to its term

Life cycle

From registration until the name is free again

What happens to your name if it isn’t renewed, and when you can still get it back.

  1. 01Registration1 to 10 yearsThe name is yours from the moment you pay, for the term you chose.
  2. 02Before expiry31 days, then 8 days beforeWe remind you twice by email; auto-renewal saves you the reminder.
  3. 03After expiryDays 1–8The website and email stop; renew within these days at the regular renewal price.
  4. 04AuctionFrom day 10The name may go to auction; if it sells, it passes to its buyer.Domain recovery policy
  5. 05Redemption30 daysIf the registry offers it after deletion: a $200 redemption fee plus a year’s renewal.
  6. 06Final deletion5 daysThen the name is free again for anyone to register.

Tips

Before you register

  1. 1Your company’s email on .comAnd make .biz an extra address leading to your site, so your messages don’t carry its reputation.
  2. 2Check your name in .business tooThe full word instead of its abbreviation, and you may find the same name free in it.
  3. 3A short name, read as it’s writtenIf it needs spelling out on the phone, it’s too long or too complicated.
  4. 4No digits or hyphens that need explainingEvery hyphen or digit has to be said, and what has to be said gets forgotten.
  5. 5Renew automatically, or register for yearsUp to 10 years at once, so you never miss a date.
  6. 6Make sure the name isn’t someone else’s trademarkA registered trademark’s owner can recover the name from whoever registered it first.

Nearby extensions

If your name is taken in .biz

FAQ5 questions

Frequently asked questions about .biz

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Contact support

  • $31 a year, for the first year and every renewal: the price you see when you search, with no other fees at registration.

  • Anyone, person or organization, from any country, with no documents or conditions; the contact details in the owner’s name just need to be accurate.

  • Yes, once 60 days have passed since it was registered or last transferred. Ask your current provider for the transfer (EPP) code and open a transfer request with us; a full year is added to the domain’s term.

  • We remind you by email 31 days and 8 days before expiry, and 3 days after it. After expiry the website and email stop, and you can renew in the first eight days at the regular renewal price; from day 10 it may go to auction. If it is deleted and the registry allows redemption within 30 days, the redemption fee is $200 plus a year’s renewal.

  • No. IANA’s repository of internationalized names (IDN) holds no Arabic table for .biz, so names in it use Latin letters, digits and hyphens.

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