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.bz is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Belize. It is administered by the University College of Belize.

At one point, .bz domains were being marketed by an American company as standing for "business", and that company even unsuccessfully sued ICANN in an attempt to block the .biz domain as "unfair competition". 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.

A lot of websites in the South Tyrol region in Italy use this domain, because the abbreviation of its capital city Bozen-Bolzano (and of the province) is BZ. Many websites use the Italian subdomain .bz.it.

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Country code top-level domains
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Reserved/unassigned: .cs .eh .kp Allocated/unused: .ax .bv .gb .sj .so .um Phaseout: .tp .su Deleted/retired: .cs .dd .zr
See also: Generic top-level domains

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