[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Should the City of New York launch a .NYC Internet domain? To try and answer that question, the City issued a Request For Information (RFI) in April through its Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT).
The RFI was just that: a call for help in determining whether the City should work on a .NYC project and if so, what the TLD should be. Contrary to what people normally expect from these RFIs, it was not a call for vendors to detail and offer their prospective services.
The City was quite clear in its call, explaining that "no contract will be awarded pursuant to this RFI and that responding to, or not responding to, this RFI will neither increase nor decrease any vendor’s chance of being awarded a contract from a subsequent solicitation issued by the City, if any, for relevant services."
DoITT invited several companies to respond to their RFI by the end of May. INDOM was the only non-US company to get the call and to respond to it. From what we know, the City received 5 others responses, all from US companies. Long-time proponents of .NYC Connecting.nyc and dotNYC both responded, as did Neustar, Verisign and New York based Name.Space.
We responded in the hope that our experience on .PARIS and other TLD projects may help the City of New York plan for a .NYC. We believe that sharing information like this can only help the City TLD cause in general. As more and more major cities like New York get on the City TLD bandwagon, this particular type of TLD is fast emerging as a standalone new category. One that can only increase the pressure on ICANN to launch the new gTLD program sooner rather than later. [/FONT]
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