.biz TLD audit hub
Restricted-by-policy gTLD for business use; now broadly unrestricted but rarely chosen as a primary brand.
The .biz TLD launched in 2001 alongside .info and was originally restricted to bona fide business use under a registry-policy 'business purpose' attestation. Enforcement of that restriction has been minimal in practice for many years and the namespace functions as a generic gTLD. NeuStar (now GoDaddy Registry) operates the registry. Adoption never reached the scale projected at launch — many of the businesses that wanted a .biz domain ended up choosing .com as soon as a brand-relevant variant became available — so the namespace skews toward small businesses and regional operators, with a long tail of low-quality affiliate marketing similar to .info. Trust signals are mildly negative compared with .com or .org. Pricing is mid-tier. We rarely see .biz used as a primary domain in modern audits and would generally recommend a different choice for a new launch unless an exact .biz match is materially cheaper than alternatives.