Mayor Bloomberg To Create Digital City Around .NYC Extension

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According to Dnainfo.com, the Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg announced today’s his administration’s plans to register the .nyc web domain name and overhaul the nyc.gov website as part of a new push to create what he called a “digital city.”

“Bloomberg and Rachel Sterne, the city’s chief digital officer, rolled out the new initiative, called “Road Map for a Digital City”

“This isn’t just some wonky stuff,” Bloomberg said of the plan, which includes a collection of improvements including partnerships with Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Tumblr.

“This is the stuff that makes a difference day in and day out,” he said.

Currently, administration officials are meeting with vendors to explore licensing the .nyc domain, Sterne said.

 

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. Rob Sequin says

    Should be an interesting fight for the .nyc extension.

    I would think a Chamber of Commerce would have rights to own and use it, the Mayor’s office, any number of NYC agencies etc etc.

    My guess is that everyone will sue whomever ends up with .nyc so this will be YEARS before you ever see a .nyc domain name.

    LOTS of money to be made or lost so you’ll see the lawyers get involved big time on this one.

    Maybe get dotnyclawsuit.com 🙂

  5. ICANN Is Corrupt !!! says

    Funny thing is, so many folks will still be going to many .com’s like David mentions.

    Sounds like an AOL attempt at putting up walls.

  6. pt says

    Agree with @David: NYC.com just jumped up another 5 notches (even though they were already high up). Can’t even begin to imagine the extra traffic they will get from people trying (but failing) to type in words with the .nyc extension.

    And @MHB, while I agree that between the new york city agencies Bloomberg has the ultimate say, what about actual companies with the MARK “NYC” ?? After all, NYC in the “New York City” sense is NOT a trademark …. but NYC for companies is an actual trademark (a search yielded 900+ registered US marks).

    Any idea how that works ?

  7. MHB says

    You are talking about trademarks with another word +nyc

    I’m not finding any trademarks for NYC