Business

New York City Poised to Score .NYC, Which No One Else Applied For

New domain names will hit the web in 2013.

The application period for new domains—Internet suffixes such as .com, .org—closed at the end of May, and there’s good news for New York City. It looks like the .nyc domain will soon belong to the municipal IT department. While some domains sparked fierce competition, with 13 applications for .app, 10 for .art and 11 for .home, only New York City applied for .nyc. No one applied for .brooklyn.
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Filed Under: Business, ICANN, New York City

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