New York Daily News
Jennifer Fermino, 5/14/2015

With .nyc the fastest-growing city domain on the planet, the de Blasio administration is prepping to launch new neighborhood sites that will localize the world wide web even further.

The city is opening applications in the next few months to allow communities to apply for 400 neighborhood website names like ParkSlope.nyc, Harlem.nyc and Astoria.nyc.

The application process is opening as .nyc is booming, with close to 77,000 registrations in just six months.

That’s more than .London at 60,049, .Tokyo with 37,283 and “.Koeln” — the German city of Cologne, which is at number three with 22,624, according to the tracking website namestat.com.

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