­­­­­­New York City's Department of Information and Telecommunications Technology (DoITT) issued a Request for Information (RFI) in preparation for the acquisition of the .nyc TLD. This page looks at those questions.
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Responses to the RFI

We applaud the city's outreach effort and will organize a collaborative effort by Connecting.nyc Inc.'s community over the next weeks to assemble an informative body of information to assist the city with the development of policies on this important issue.

Our goal is submit a body of helpful information to DoITT by the May 27th deadline. It is presumed that DoITT will review our information and that provided by others and develop a Request for Proposals for entities that interested in presenting the application to ICANN and (perhaps separately) developing and operating the TLD. These decisions will be based, in part, upon the RFI answers -  submitted by Connecting.nyc Inc. and others, as well as city laws, regulations, and goals.

DoITT's questions are presented below. However, note that the city welcomes any and all input. Currently we expect to present a body of information from this wiki as "consensus" with an appendix of "other information." If you have thoughts that you'd rather not wiki, send them to info@connectingnyc.org or send your thoughts directly to DoITT via jblanc@doitt.nyc.gov.

Here are the proffered questions. Enter your thoughts on our RFI Wiki Workspace here.

1. Suggested potential ­uses for the .nyc gTLD
2. Business model to partner with the City for the operation of the .nyc gTLD
3. The potential sources of future revenue streams
4. The ability for the City to reserve certain domain names for its own use/protection
5. Options for domain registration, including pricing models, trademark protection measures, dispute resolution, terms and conditions of use
6. A platform for auction of popular domain names
7. A platform to accept on-line payments
8. A plan to organize a sales network
9. A technical solution and plan of coordination with the City administrators
10. A plan to ensure a secure and reliable domain space
11. Suggestions for innovation and responsible growth
12. A plan for zero risk of transition
13. A Sunrise policy
14. A Dispute Resolution Process to protect intellectual property owners from the registration or use of a domain name in bad faith
15. A stated procedure of resolving trademark disputes during and after the Sunrise period
16. A Nexus Policy to preserve the gTLD for use by the community of New York City related users
17. Additional policies essential for organizing the locality-based gTLD space, and for developing the expanded gTLD space, including among others
    
1. a Delegated Manager (“DM”) Tool,
   
2. DM DNS inspections,
   
3. a Ban on Proxy domain name registrations,
   
4. a WHOIS Accuracy Program, and
   
5. the prevention of abusive domain name registration and DNS practices.
18. Transfer polices
19. Policies for the prevention of Phishing, Malware, Bot-nets, etc.
20. A contingency response plan(s) (in addition to a policy to prevent) technical problems, Phishing, Malware, Bot-nets, distributed denial-of-service attacks, etc.
21. Proposals for additional uses and functionality

Other RFI Pages

• RFI Wiki Workspace

• RFI Blog Post 
  
• Connecting.nyc Inc.'s wiki home page
  

Key Pages

Each of the 100+ pages on Connecting.nyc Inc.'s wiki invites user contributions and is linked to one of the following key pages. Information on these pages will assist users with answering the above questions. But go broad and deep elsewhere to explore for ideas. (Note: To edit the wiki you must first join the project.)

• The TLD Acquisition Campaign
  
• Advantages of the .nyc TLD
  
• Mission & Objectives
  
• The Operating Environment
  
• Domain Name Allocation Plan
  

• The Development Environment
  

• Governance
  
• FAQ
  
• Towards City-TLDs in the Public Interest - A White Paper (or download it here)
  
• Connecting.nyc Inc.'s Home Page
  
• Our Blog