{"id":7112,"date":"2012-03-21T00:17:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T05:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7112"},"modified":"2012-03-21T00:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T05:27:31","slug":"sell_them_all_and_let_icann_sort_em_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/sell_them_all_and_let_icann_sort_em_out.html","title":{"rendered":"Sell Them All And Let ICANN Sort &#8216;Em Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess cities can get Internet domains? <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/20\/city-seeks-to-become-a-new-internet-address\/\">Now we have a new timewaster<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>New York City is gearing up to apply for a new Internet domain with a .nyc suffix, a move made possible by a recent decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the Internet address system, to approve the creation of a large number of new so-called top-level domains.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are a few domain names I&#8217;m going to be camping on an air mattress the week before to get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iro.nyc<\/li>\n<li>nan.nyc\/ity<\/li>\n<li>whi.nyc\/ity<\/li>\n<li>Also many variations of domain names featuring subdirectories titled &#8220;unt&#8221;; use your imagination there<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So does that mean that a porn site can do business with a .nyc domain? Or is &#8220;alqaeda.nyc&#8221; off limits? Who decides?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/city_trendiest_address_nyc_uYCyZsZ8JSopGCJUjt2qRJ\">The Post adds<\/a> that &#8220;businesses based in or serving the five boroughs would be able to apply for the domain,&#8221; which will be perfect for my new business helping businesses establish their .nyc domains in one of the five boroughs. Maybe I&#8217;m being silly, but I don&#8217;t see this turning out so well . . . don&#8217;t municipal governments have better things to do than help sex sites brand themselves?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess cities can get Internet domains? Now we have a new timewaster: New York City is gearing up to apply for a new Internet domain with a .nyc suffix, a move made possible by a recent decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the Internet address system, to approve [&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-7112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project_mersh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112","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=7112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7114,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions\/7114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}