By Jeff John Roberts: The latest New York City “land rush” is already turning into a party for cyber-squatters, who have snapped up some familiar names. The episode shows, again, how the system is geared in favor of the domain name industry, rather than brands or the public. Well, that was fast. New York City’s …
Adage: Beginning today, New Yorkers can be masters of their own domain. This is the first day that the .nyc domain is available to the public, and to get the five boroughs fired up about applying, PR events and campaigns are taking place around the city to generate buzz. Neustar, the registry services company supporting …
According to theDomains.com The number of new gTLD domain name registrations topped the 2.5 million mark for the first time yesterday as .NYC awarded over 2,900 domain names in the land rush program which ended yesterday, blowing away all previously new gTLD launches in terms of domain names awarded in Sunrise and Landrush (or equivalent …
Washington Post Writes: A vast new stretch of digital real estate opened on Monday in New York City, where several dozen local businesses, non-profits and institutions went live online with enviable new dot-nyc Web sites. The early settlers include a savvy local photographer (casey.nyc), a beekeeping association (bees.nyc), a renowned jazz club (birdland.nyc), a university …