{"id":2823,"date":"2007-10-01T07:56:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T15:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/new_york_--_the_town_so_nice_they_gave_it_its_own_domain_name.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T11:10:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:10:50","slug":"new_york_the_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/new_york_the_to.html","title":{"rendered":"New York &#8212; The Town So Nice They Gave It  Its Own Domain Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/local\/am-nyc0928,0,5285161.story\">overstates the power of the Internet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Is it time for the big city to start cornering a piece of the Internet?<\/p>\n<p>A growing grassroots movement says yes, and is trying to create a &#8220;.nyc&#8221; domain name to go alongside the dot coms and dot orgs of the World Wide Web.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Ford introduced their first car 100 years ago, no one thoughtto start building roads for it,&#8221; said Tom Lowenhaupt, an interactive marketing consultant who heads Connecting.nyc, a group he formed to lead the effort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we ended up having to tear down miles of the Bronx to build freeways to start accommodating them all. It&#8217;s the same thing now. We have the opportunity now to plan for the future and start organizing ourselves and our resources in a responsible way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Backers say that a dot NYC Web address will allow the city&#8217;s small businesses to distinguish themselves in the crowded online marketplace and foster better community cohesion and social activism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Internet is great at global things but it isn&#8217;t very good at local things,&#8221; Lowenhaupt said. &#8220;There are 60 million dot com names out there. When all six billion of us are on the Internet New York is going to be forgotten.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He perhaps overstates the power of the Internet: Is it time for the big city to start cornering a piece of the Internet? A growing grassroots movement says yes, and is trying to create a &#8220;.nyc&#8221; domain name to go alongside the dot coms and dot orgs of the World Wide Web. &#8220;When Ford introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project_mersh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}