Tag Archives: .nyc

July, 2009

• 31 July

  Data center for NYSE under construction in New Jersey

  Yes, even the mighty New York Stock Exchange can’t operate without its share of servers and switches. A 400,000-square-bart data center is currently being constructed in Mahwah, New Jersey to support risk-management software and complex algorithms for traders. The center is located only 35 miles from Manhattan to ensure there …

June, 2009

• 12 June

  Former New York City Mayor Backs dotNYC

  Numerous New Yorkers have gotten behind the idea of a .nyc TLD, but multiple companies and organizations are fighting for the right to manage the domain. Yesterday, Former New York City Mayor Koch made news when he announced his support for dotNYC LLC, whose plan calls for selling the names …

May, 2009

• 21 May

  New gTLDs Available for Preorder, Customers Being Misled

  Registrars Pool.com and Quintaris made news today with their new joint preorder program for gTLDs under the auspice of ICANN’s new policy, which allows the creation of additional domain extensions by businesses and organizations The names are being registered at a rate of 10,000 per day. The extensions available include …
• 7 May

  Is There a Future for .NYC?

  New York has it all. From Broadway to the United Nations to Harlem, is there anything the city is missing? Apparently so. If the Big Apple has its way, soon there will be a new geo TLD- .nyc. The idea has been bandied about the city by various individuals and …