Souvenirs.nyc and Google’s Secret Sauce
Jackson Hts., New York, June 8, 2015 – Imagine if Google gave preference in its search results to websites using .nyc domain names. So that whenever someone looked to buy bananas, batteries, beefsteak,...
View ArticleCity-TLDs and the Multistakeholder Model – Comments To ICANN
June 26, 2015, Buenos Aires – Over the past few months we’ve grown increasingly distressed over the city’s failure to initiate a new governance process for the .nyc TLD. As we’ve mentioned previously,...
View ArticleIntroducing dotNYC Explorer
Jackson Hts., New York, July 9, 2015 – Joel Natividad of Ontondia.com put together a dotNYC Explorer based on information on .nyc registrants provided by DoITT, the city agency with oversight of the...
View Article.London Premium Domain Name Auctions Start
New York, July 15, 2015 – While New York City officials consider ways to issue the city-shaping and valuable Premium Domain Names – hotels.nyc, sports.nyc, news.nyc – London has settled on a plan for...
View ArticleMapping New York City’s Civic Commons
(Note: A later, and in some ways improved, version of this post “City Must Use .NYC to Create a Real Civic Commons” was published by CityLimits on September 14th.) New York, August 20, 2015 –...
View ArticleInterview on Face2Face
New York, August 31, 2015 – One of our directors, Tom Lowenhaupt, was recently interviewed on Face2Face. The interviewer, David Anderson, posed several questions to Mr. Lowenhaupt during the 10 minute...
View ArticleWhat’s Hot and Not On .nyc?
New York, October 2, 2015 – Would you like to know what .nyc websites are popular? The ones that are getting more popular? And less? Newbies? One way to find out would be to have access to something...
View ArticleExpiring .nyc Domain Names
October 6, 2015, New York – With the first year registrations of .nyc domain names beginning to expire, we were curious about the process for identifying now unwanted domain names. So we asked the city...
View ArticleNeighborhoods.nyc @ Queens Borough Hall
From our friends at Coalition For Queens… Hi all, We wanted to extend an invitation for nonprofits and local development corporations to attend a Neighborhoods.NYC info session on Wednesday, Dec. 2...
View ArticleGlobal Internet Governance: The Road Ahead
United Nations, New York, December 17, 2015 – Yesterday our esteemed colleague, Parminder Jeet Singh of ICT for Change, presented a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on global Internet...
View ArticleNeighborhood Name License, part 1 – CAUTION: “Without Cause”
Jackson Heights, New York, February 2, 2016 – The deBlasio Administration’s licensing initiative for the neighborhood domain names is currently accepting applications. So if you’re a neighborhood...
View ArticleNeighborhood Name License, part 2 – Content Restrictions and their Chilling...
Jackson Heights, New York, February 7, 2016 – The draft Licensing Agreement for the city’s neighborhood domain names has several significant limitations. In a previous post we wrote about a “Without...
View ArticleNeighborhood Name License, part 3 – Secondary Level Names
Jackson Hts., NYC, February 20, 2016 – This is our third post about concerns we have with the city’s draft Licensing Agreement for neighborhood domain names. In our first we bemoaned a “Without Cause”...
View ArticleWorkshop: Empowering New York City’s Neighborhoods
This event’s report is now available. —– March 8, 2016, Jackson Hts., New York – The de Blasio administration has initiated a program to license operators of the 385 neighborhood domain names:...
View ArticleKeep Our Data Local!
May 20, 2016, Jackson Hts., New York – Connecting.nyc Inc.’s founding director Thomas Lowenhaupt is to make a presentation on June 8 at NYC Media Lab’s IoT Media Mash. Having seen the city play...
View ArticleJacksonHeights.nyc
June 16, 2016 – Connecting.nyc Inc. today announced that it was applying to the city of New York for the license to develop the JacksonHeights.nyc domain name. The announcement was made under a clear...
View ArticleJacksonHeights.nyc – The Application
August 19, 2016 – Connecting.nyc Inc. today announced that it had submitted its application to the city of New York for the license to develop the JacksonHeights.nyc domain name. Accompanying the...
View ArticleMaps.nyc
November 30, 2016, New York City – This evening Connecting.nyc Inc.’s director, Thomas Lowenhaupt, addressed a meeting of the New York Map Society urging them to join the campaign to create the...
View ArticlePremier Presentation of JacksonHeights.nyc
New York, January 4, 2017 – Connecting.nyc Inc.’s founding director Tom Lowenhaupt will present an overview of his organization’s development plans for the JacksonHeights.nyc domain on Thursday,...
View ArticleInternet Society Calls For Hearings on .nyc Contract Renewal
February 6, 2017, New York City – Last week the New York Internet Society passed a resolution that called for the city of New York to hold public hearings before renewing its contract with Neustar Inc....
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