In an obvious lapse of good judgment, the City of New York let the domain CUNY.com drop. The name then sold at auction for $30,050

CUNY stands for City University of New York, and likely receives a lot of type-in traffic from people trying to visit the university’s site at CUNY.edu.

Considering the vast size of New York City’s government and the many issues the city faces, it wouldn’t be surprising to hear that the city hasn’t even realized what happened yet.

Whether or not it tries to get the name back is an entirely different question. New York has several trademarks on the term “CUNY.” It would be a shame to spend five figures on a domain and then have it taken back in litigation.

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With Google looking to the sea and Apple eyeing North Carolina for data center expansion, Yahoo is feeling a bit left out.

In a need to keep up with infrastructure demand, Yahoo filed plans late last week to build a data center in Lockport, New York, a city 25-miles northeast of Buffalo.

The long-deposed search king warned that this was “not a done deal” and that the company is still considering other states for the big mess of silicone and wires it plans to put together.

However, the official filing of plans does demonstrate some sense of finality. It is most likely that Yahoo is waiting to see what tax package it can get from the government before breaking ground. The New York Power Authority has already allotted the facility 10 megawatts for construction up until 2012 and 15 megawatts thereafter.

Source: Data Center Knowledge

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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 for £6 ($10 USD) a year.

“.NYC is the best real estate opportunity in New York City since the Dutch bought Manhattan. I can’t wait to sign up for edkoch.nyc, and while I’m at it I’ll probably sign up for mayorkoch.nyc as well,” Mayor Koch said. “I’ve done my homework and the experienced team behind dotNYC LLC is the right team to run .NYC.”

Based in New York, dotNYC claims it has previous experience operating TLDs. Several of its leaders helped found ICANN.

Several other cities, including London, Paris, Berlin, Boston, and Mumbai, seek to carve out their own Internet niche by creating new extensions.

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