Josh Kosman wrote a an article on Friday night with regards to .NYC and the rest of the new city gtlds. Kosman used data from Domain Punch that stipulated that 72,000 freebies should not be included in the totals for .Berlin, so with that technicality, .NYC is the leader in paid registrations.
From the article:
New York City is on the fast track to becoming the dot-com capital of the world.
The rush to grab the city’s digital real estate — or addresses ending in .nyc — has made the Big Apple’s six-month-old domain the fastest growing among a host of cities granted approval for their own top-level domains.
“We are growing at a faster clip than any other geo-locale,” said Lori Anne Wardi, vice president of registry at Neustar, which operates the .nyc exchange for the city.
“New York City is the center of the business, financial, media and fashion worlds, so I am not too surprised,” she added.
People have registered 73,721 .nyc addresses as of Thursday, or an average of 12,287 a month since the domain debuted in mid-October, according to Softnik Technologies’ Domain Punch.
Read the full article on NYPost.com
They better modify their $39.99 renewal of Gotham will likely see itself implode in the Fall.
I personally registered about 10 names @ $24.99 and will keep maybe 3 or 4 at the $39.99 renew fee.
You do realize that it just go daddy, and if you switch registrar to hellodotnyc or 1and1 for 24. I think 1and1 is 20 for first year.
That said, If your domains are of such low caliber that they not worth 40, i would certainly drop it.
Just intermezzo – perhaps I missed, but I nobody talks about .CITY domain(s). They are IMHO one of the best new domains. Just compare dot com and dot city.
Which is more “relevant” for (an international) tourism 🙂
Of all the new tld’s, .NYC is perhaps one of the most logical domain extensions. Non-domainers can “get” the relevance and utility of something that equates to their city.
.City is not bad, but it has to compete with corresponding country codes around the world as in city.us as well as city.world and city.global. I do believe City.city would be preferable long-term to the VisitCity.com.
I do not argue about value of .nyc – but you must be resident or you have entitled business:) In fact I did not registered domains without “direct meaning” – only two: TheHoly and CityToCity (.city). But almost all are cached directly by registry – in fact almost all US cities..
I was able to get some German, French and other cities like: Bonn, Bruges, Reims, etc. Speaking about NYC – I was able to get NewYorkNewYork. You will say: it is brand – and I will say yes – but is limited ONLY to LV. In my eyes they what to somehow to “steal” traffic of popular therm – and here I see an opportunity to NYC region to “fight back” with marketing directly NYC area … and getting back internet traffic 🙂
I do not think that your examples are “very practical” of meaning of city domain, that’s why I responded with some more sharp examples – and they are for EU markets not here:) That speaking I see that this extension is not much advertised because of registry ownership – so thus not being popular for domainers,
But it is one of the best examples, where left and the right of the dot are becoming really one great domain.
These city domains make sense and will serve local markets well.
My thinking is that once a foothold is gained in any city, wide acceptance will rapidly build…and once again domainers will be vilified for knowing what local business owners should have known all along.