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  1. #1
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    * .nyc domain TLD coming soon !!!

    New York is going to be the first city in the entire world to have its own TLD, http://nycdomain.org/nyc-domain-pre-registration/

    It looks like this will be officially launched sometime in early 2013. As I support and live in the Big Apple (New York) I'm looking forward to this!

    Your thoughts?

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    Interesting. I love how there are no state TLDs.
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    That's pretty cool.

    Anyone else think the pre-reg page is kind of bogus? It clearly states the form is not for guaranteeing nor reserving names, just that you'll be informed of dates and deadlines. Looks like they're using the form to generate good domain ideas so they can snatch it up and sell for a premium.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WickedFactor View Post
    That's pretty cool.

    Anyone else think the pre-reg page is kind of bogus? It clearly states the form is not for guaranteeing nor reserving names, just that you'll be informed of dates and deadlines. Looks like they're using the form to generate good domain ideas so they can snatch it up and sell for a premium.
    They could keep us informed with a mailing list, also 'This website is not affiliated with, or sponsored or endorsed by, the City of New York or the .NYC domain registry.' is a bit worrying

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    http://www.dotnyc.net/introducing-nyc/reserve-my-name/

    That is the correct site and they're not taking any registrations yet...
    Nothing here right now.

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    So the first URL is bogus?
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    Quote Originally Posted by FHDave View Post
    So the first URL is bogus?
    To me it seems bogus. Then again this one's blog is filled with porn references so who knows.
    Nothing here right now.

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    This is a proposal, not a certainty. My native city of Gent (Belgium) also released the statement that a .gent suffix will be requested (if not requested already)

    Probably many more cities will follow.

    In my opinion, there's no need for it. There's so many obscure extentions already and it's already so hard to see the forest for the trees. The last thing we need is an overflow of even more extentions and try to capitalise on the internet even more. Every city lies in a country and therefor should rely on the country domain IMO.

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    Not sure why NYC is so special they need their own TLD, I would think only companies or people in New York would want to have it anyway. I would keep an eye on this and see if anything really comes out of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HiVelocityKB View Post
    Not sure why NYC is so special they need their own TLD, I would think only companies or people in New York would want to have it anyway. I would keep an eye on this and see if anything really comes out of it.
    Because it's the 19th largest city in the world!


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    I don't think it is the 19th "largest" city in the world, its kind of small actually Now, maybe its the 19th most populated. So will we see the 18 other cites getting theirs soon as well?
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    Quote Originally Posted by HiVelocityKB View Post
    I don't think it is the 19th "largest" city in the world, its kind of small actually Now, maybe its the 19th most populated. So will we see the 18 other cites getting theirs soon as well?
    If you just look at the US alone, NYC has the largest population of any city.

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    it has to be 30 million with its greater area.

    there are many cities in the world like that. all would ask their own domain name.

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    Quote Originally Posted by unity100 View Post
    it has to be 30 million with its greater area.

    there are many cities in the world like that. all would ask their own domain name.
    Yeah within city limits is 19,465,197 estimated according to the US Census Bureau. So more than likely 30 million within the entire NYC metro surrounding areas.
    Nothing here right now.

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    Considering they last updated that site it looks like in '09, I doubt this is going anywhere.
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    My native Gent has applied for .gent and has a population of only approx 240000 In theory, as long as the money for an application is there, even a tiny village on a remote atoll can apply to ICANN for having its own extention. This is why the whole new TLD's are more of a pain ... than doing any good. There are so many extentions rarely used as we speak, do we really need cities, linguistic groups, corporations etc having their own extention too?

    Maybe, with the emphasis on "maybe", linguistic groups would be the one exception. For example the Basque Country (Euskadi in their native Basque language) use .eu frequently as if it would stand for .euskara ; other minority languages that may want to apply could be Gaelic languages, Esperanto, the Roma people, ... But then this may serve purpose only in case we talk about languages spoken by more than a couple of thousand people.

    Basically, the more extentions we create, the more the web is getting polluted. To have a handful of generic extentions + 1 per country is enough I would say. In their attempts to cash in on the internet, ICANN will make navigating just harder and harder.

    Imagine you want to browse for websites from for example Paris ; do you look in the .com, the .fr, or the .paris extention? A local enterprise wishing to avoid confusion would need to register all three. The latter is the one reason why ICANN is keen on even more rarely used extentions. You'd think the failure of .name and other such examples would be an indication to not create more pointless suffixes, but ICANN clearly smells money...

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