Occupy

First Generation TLDs	Expected TLDs
.com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, .us, .uk, .info, .biz	.nyc, .google, .ibm, .berlin, paris, .music, .sports

Imagine our city without Zucotti Park, or any public park for that matter.

Imagine our city without any public spaces, public transportation, public education, law enforcement, sanitation; in other words a city that didn't serve the PUBLIC INTEREST. Absurd of course. Today we have 300,000 city workers looking after our needs. And we have a robust civic life with block and civic associations, community boards, church, social, and ethnic groups, sports teams, and more, all networking residents.

As things now stand, we'll have none of these commons spaces on the .nyc TLD.

While city government has expressed an interest in acquiring the .nyc TLD, its not yet figured out how to engage the public in a meaningful way in defining and developing our digital future. On this wiki the Internet Society's New York Chapter presents a channel for gathering and communicating the Internet community's desires for New York's TLD.

Now's the time to get involved, to join as a community through the traditional bottom-up Internet governance process, and let New York City's government know how we want our city's TLD to serve the public interest by providing a thoughtfully planned digital infrastructure for the coming era.

Questions

• What TLD will best serve New York? Should it be .nyc, .newyork, or .newyorkcity?
• What governance process would you like to see for our TLD?
• What do you think of the sustainability of New York's TLD? (See here for background.)

Some Resources

• The NYCWiki for neighborhoods - A collaboration between the Internet Society-NY, Wikimedia's local chapter (Wikimedia is the publisher of Wikipedia and other commons resources). and Connecting.nyc Inc. Its goal is to do for our city's neighborhoods what Wikipedia does for general information.
• ICANN's New TLD Site - See the application process for acquiring a new Top Level Domain.
• Connecting.nyc Inc. - A NYS not-for-profit created to advocate for the development of New York's TLD as a public interest resource.
• NYCShare.org - A site created by the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications for presenting and engaging the public in decision making processes. Little used, it's one of the channels we'll use to present your ideas to city government and the public.

References

• The Internet is a Semicommons - James Grimmelman, Fordham Law Review, May 2010 [1]