[NA-Discuss] Help create the .nyc Internet space for New York and New Yorkers

[John Levine]

> Perhaps it would serve our city's interest (as well as hotel owners, 
> workers, suppliers, guests) to have our 402 hotels (how presented in a 
> more orderly and favorable way in www.hotels.nyc.

But this urgent need is already met by www.nychotels.travel.  Oh, wait, 
there is no nychotels.travel.  Why would that be?  If nobody's willing to 
spend $100 even to set up that domain, why would they be any more 
interested in hotels.nyc?  Here's an offer: if you can find whoever is 
going to organize all that useful stuff (not just a PPC squat), I'll pay 
the $100 and set up nychotels.travel for you.

If you look at the unglorious history of new TLDs, the only ones that have 
gotten significant numbers of registrations are .biz and .info, which are 
cynical clones of .com (or maybe .org for .info), and perhaps .mobi which 
has the entire mobile phone industry behind it.  The rest have all missed 
their most pessimistic estimates by about 95%.  Maybe .cat can be 
considered a success, but they have a set of unique circumstances, 
including their linguistic situation and the support of an influential 
ICANN board member.

> streetclothes.nyc name provides. Good names with identity. Why not?

Like I said, I'm not opposed to city domains, but I see no demand for them 
other than in the minds of their promoters.  There's no reason to throw up 
artificial roadblocks, but there's also no reason to spend our time on it.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
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