New registrations this month
30.6K domains/month
Restricted generic extension · Business
.biz
A business-oriented extension worth considering when the name and audience make the purpose immediately clear.
- RegistryRegistry Services, LLC
- Metrics held26
- With history0
Signal profile
- Brevity 94
- Namespace depth 23
- RDAP readiness 100
- DNSSEC 100
- NS breadth 100
- Registration scale 74
- Domains
- 1.28M domains
- Active registrars
- 357 registrar accounts
- DNS queries
- 144.68B queries/month
Everything on record
26 reported metrics for .biz
Grouped as the registry reports them. Each figure carries its source, when it was observed and a quality grade, and any metric with a trend can be opened for its full history.
Attempted registrations
6.03M attempts/month
Deletions this month
20.1K domains/month
Multi-year registration share
3.97% ratio
Registered nameservers
217.6K nameservers
Renewals this month
58.8K domains/month
Restores this month
18 domains/month
Successful inbound transfers
1,947 transfers/month
Registered domains
1.28M domains
Registry contract signed
30 Jun 2019 date
Registry contract terminated
No
Delegated to the root
25 Sep 2001 date
Contracted registry operator
Registry Services, LLC
Specification 13 brand TLD
No
Third-level registration
No
Registrar accounts with domains
357 registrar accounts
Registrar concentration
7.05% index
Reporting registrar accounts
453 registrar accounts
Top five registrar share
43.75% ratio
Largest registrar share
22.06% ratio
DNS queries received
144.68B queries/month
DNS response ratio
99.93% ratio
Operational registrars
453 registrars
Registration-data queries
135.05M queries/month
Registry availability checks
319.83M commands/month
Registry create commands
6.42M commands/month
Root zone and registry agreement
The facts that do not change monthly
Delegation, operator and protocol support, taken from the IANA root zone and the ICANN registry agreement data.
- Registry manager
- Registry Services, LLC
- Registry operator
- Registry Services, LLC
- Delegated to the root
- 25 September 2001
- Registry contract signed
- 30 June 2019
- Authoritative nameservers
- 8
- DNSSEC signed
- Yes
- RDAP available
- Yes
- Internationalised label
- No
- Third-level registration
- No
- Specification 13 brand TLD
- No
IANA Root Zone Database
ICANN registry agreement
ICANN gTLD contract data
ICANN gTLD contract data
IANA root zone
Root delegation DS record
IANA RDAP bootstrap registry
IANA root zone
ICANN registry agreement
ICANN registry agreement
Namespace beneath .biz
1 ICANN boundary rules Registration boundaries recognised beneath this TLD.
16 Private boundary rules Privately operated suffixes, such as hosting subdomains.
Where this comes from
Every figure is traceable
Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled. Each metric names the source it came from and the month it was observed, and a metric with no observation is shown as unknown rather than filled with a zero.
- ICANN gTLD Registry Agreement Data View source
- ICANN Monthly Registry Activity Reports View source
- ICANN Monthly Registry Reports View source
- TLD registry-published statistics View source
Enrichment snapshot generated . Registry reporting runs a month or two behind, so the newest observation is rarely this month.
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