Hurrah! Hurrah! Our 9 year effort is nearing success. ICANN, city hall, the city council, and nearly every organization and resident in the city now agrees that we should acquire the .nyc TLD!

As our digital diaspora comes to an end, New Yorkers will be able to set up business, civic, and personal websites, just like in .com but using .nyc. The world will be able to find us, and far more important, we’ll be better able to find one another. Hallelujah!

The Connecting.nyc Inc. team has been working to make .nyc a reality since 2001 when a local community board passed an Internet Empowerment Resolution recommending its acquisition. And it’s looking like 2010 might bring success.

But our work isn’t finished. It seems the city is leaning toward the Standard Model for .nyc’s development, not the Community Model we’ve advocated. And the ICANN process is stalled. We need to convince the city that .nyc is a new infrastructure that best serves if developed in the public interest – see What Success Means – and we need to push the ICANN to complete a process for issuing city-TLDs.

Help out. Click around. Learn more about our effort. Then sign the petition, give your advice (perhaps there’s a public interest domain name you’d like to see set aside), come to an event, or click that Donate button at the top of this page.

If you’d like to learn more about our effort before committing, take a look at our wiki. There you’ll find 100+ pages discussing our mission, advantages of using .nyc, the acquisition campaign, our governance processes, the domain name allocation plan, a FAQ, and a lot more. See the wiki.

Or just read a quick summary about us and watch our blog posts. But do help us create a Home for New York City on the Internet.

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