NYC Starts Spreading the Top-Level Internet Domain News
Six years after Gale Brewer, currently Manhattan Borough president and then a City Council member, first put forward reignited the idea in 2008, the reality of .nyc domains is almost upon us. Per an announcement on the nic.nyc site, today – May 5 – is the first day local businesses and individuals can apply for a dot-NYC domain. When the URLs go live this fall, New York City will officially become the first U.S. city with its own top-level domain suffix.
From today’s announcement:
“New Yorkers are constantly innovating and putting this great city on the digital map,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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