.bz is the

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) for

Belize Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a wate ...

. 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

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in an attempt to block the

.biz .biz is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is intended for registration of domains to be used by businesses. The name is a phonetic spelling of the first syllable of ''business''. History The TLD ...

domain as "

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". 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. Many websites in Italy use this domain, because of the abbreviation of

Bolzano Bolzano ( or ; german: Bozen, (formerly ); bar, Bozn; lld, Balsan or ) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third la ...

, the capital of the province of

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, and the fact that the official abbreviation of the province is BZ. Many websites use the Italian subdomain .bz.it. Servers for the

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game '' 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) It also might have use for typosquatting for misspellings of

domains.

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IANA .bz whois information

.bz Requirements and FAQs
Country code top-level domains Telecommunications in Belize {{Compu-domain-stub sv:Toppdomän#B

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