.NYC Birthday

The NYC Top Level Domain (TLD) will be three years old this October. Its precise birth date is at first unclear due to the NYC launch schedule. "General Availability" (where anyone who attempted to register an available domain was successful) was on October 8th 2014 but for many early NYC domain registrants, the two step "Landrush Period" would be the date to celebrate. The two steps of the Landrush Period were: August 4th to October 3rd 2014: Depending on registrar, registrants had to pay $70-100 for the Landrush application and keep their fingers crossed that no one else applied for the same domain during this period. If no second applicant the domain was theirs on October 3rd 2014 If a second person applied for the same domain, an auction would be conducted during one of three rounds depending on the first letter of the domain name: A – I: October 23 – 27, 2014 J – R: October 28 – 31, 2014 S – Z: November 3 – 6, 2014 Before General Availab…