John,
I. The very long answer to your question is
presented in Towards
city-TLDs in the Public Interest, a paper I wrote with the able help of
Michael Gurstein. It's 13 single spaced pages present much of our case in great
detail.
2. The Internet Empowerment
Resolution, from which the .nyc effort emerged, was meant to address the need of
residents in our immigrant community for good domain names - short, descriptive,
and memorable. Many of them were not here (or just children) in 1995 when the
good names were available. And even then, they didn't provide the identity that
a streetclothes.nyc name provides. Good names with identity. Why
not?
3. Enter "good hotels in
New York City" into google. I just got 11,400,000 responses. Perhaps it
would serve our city's interest (as well as hotel owners, workers, suppliers,
guests) to have our 402 hotels (how many times does 402 go into 11,400,000?)
presented in a more orderly and favorable way in www.hotels.nyc. (Note,
we're not proposing that google go away, only that we have a small space to
present our resources.) You don't like www.hotels.nyc? go to google or
yahoo.
But the "Towards" paper
answers your question in an orderly and reasoned way, presenting the case
for a public interest TLD. I hope you have the opportunity to read
it.
Sincerely,
Tom Lowenhaupt
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Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Help create the .nyc
Internet space for New York and New Yorkers
>> As an example, I'd like to know -- specifically -- what could
be
>> accomplished by .nyc that could not be done using .nyc.us . Of
course,
>> ".nyc.us" is already owned by a squatter, which
means...
>
> ... that .nyc.ny.us is ready for anyone who
wants to use it, and has been
> for several decades. There's also
new-york.ny.us, managed by a legacy
> registrar in Indiana.
>
> I don't bear any particular ill will toward people who want .nyc or
> .berlin, but I don't see any particular need for or interest in them,
> either.
>
> R's,
> Geography boy, aka johnl@trumansburg.ny.us
>
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