Amsterdam, 5 May 2001 - The new .biz TLD from ICANN will be totally useless in the
European Union, as most of the European ISP's will not add them to their DNS-servers.
Instead, they will keep the altroot DNS entries. Only Europe Online Network (EON),
Wanadoo, Planet Internet and a few small ISP's will add the new ICANN-.biz to their
DNS-servers.
Mainly all the other ISPs will follow the Dutch KPN Telecom-doughter
XS4ALL, who is against the addition of .biz to ICANNs TLD program. In a press message,
XS4ALL writes: "The discussion about .biz and other TLDs came when the European Commission
wanted to have non-American TLDs on the internet. .biz is already a non-American
TLD for almost 6 years. Thanks to ICANN, many people would loose their domain, and
.biz would still not be non-American."
On the biztld.org website, original .biz
owner PacificRoot writes that after ICANN duplicated .biz, PacificRoot will continue
to resolve new domains.
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