[NA-Discuss] .nyc contract hearing friday 3/23 in Brooklyn

[Joly MacFie]

Acquisition of .nyc is one of the defined waystations on Bloomberg's Digital
Roadmap <http://www.nyc.gov/html/mome/digital/html/roadmap/roadmap.shtml>.
I think the Neustar humvee may yet hit a few speedbumps on the journey.
Apart from all the reserved neighborhood names in the RFP, the result of
Tom's hard work, Council Member Gale Brewer, who pushed NYC's recent open
data legislation, and DoITT Commissioner Carole Post, who architected same,
are both very much dedicated to IT serving the public interest. We are
promised plenty of public input into the eventual application of the TLD.

j



On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:

> On 22 March 2012 15:10, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>
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>> A public hearing on NYC's allocation of the .nyc contract to
>> Neustar will be held tomorrow, Friday, in Brooklyn.
>>
>
>
> Looks like all of Thomas Lowenhaupt's multiple years of hard work
> advocating for a community-focused .nyc TLD for may turn out to have been
> blazing a rugged, obstacle-clearing trail through which Neustar may now
> drive its HumVee.
>
> Thomas, I feel for ya. I was a vocal skeptic of your proposal but am even
> more critical of a direct government-Neustar registry (both in process and
> likely substance). I didn't expect that your project would seek out
> defensive domains but I can feel fairly confident that a pure generic play
> would consider defencives as part of their revenue mix.
>
> Personally, I've delighted that so few geoTLD proposals have come from
> North America. I expect .québec for historical reasons (much conceptually
> in common with .cat), and I consider the current plays for .nyc and .vegas
> to be almost defensive TLDs themselves, given those cities' own branding
> efforts.. The other two listed at http://www.citytld.com/ (for Ottawa and
> San Francisco) appear dead
>
> Most of the others are proposed for Europe. What a massive waste of money
> and time. I feel truly sorry for all the small businesses that will be
> compelled to register defensively for those that roll out.
>
> Maybe there are so few North American ones because people here already see
> what a bust ".us" is and figure that almost all the incumbents are Amercian
> anyway. But I'll appreciate the sanity wherever I can find it.
>
> - Evan
>
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>>
>> *Information Technology and Telecommunications Public Hearing*
>>
>>
>> Notice is hereby given that a Contract Public Hearing will be held on
>> Friday, March 23, 2012 at DoITT, 2 MetroTech Center, 4th Floor, Brooklyn
>> NY
>> 11209, commencing at 2:00 P.M. on the following:
>>
>> In the matter of a proposed contract between the Department of Information
>> Technology and Telecommunications and Neustar located at 21575 Ridgetop
>> Circle, Sterling, VA 20166, to apply for, and if obtained, operate,
>> administer, manage and market nyc. The term of the contract shall be for
>> five (5) years with two (2) five (5) year renewal options at the City’s
>> discretion. The contract is a Revenue contract, PIN: 85812P0001.
>>
>> *10/5/2009 City issues RFP for .nyc management <http://isoc-ny.org/?p=902
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