---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Thomas Lowenhaupt* <[email protected]> Date: Friday, December 5, 2014 Subject: A Commons In Danger To: [email protected]
Making Worlds, 60,000 .nyc domain names have already been sold to New Yorkers* through a willy-nilly process. Many of these might be considered pieces of the commons. I for example, purchased the domain name MentalHealth.nyc. I'm free to do with it as I please: create a magic elixir and sell it on a MentalHealth.nyc website. Or I could open the MentalHealth.nyc comedy club. While both of these might support a viable economic product, the public interest could best be served by the name being used as a reference or directory of the city's mental health resources. While it's too late to do a thoughtful distribution of those 60K names, the city administration has set aside 3,069 "Premium Names," that are currently destined for auction to the highest bidder. Auctions are to begin early in the new year. Many of these Premium Names are part of the city's *commons *and could better serve New Yorkers by having some strings attached to their use. So rather than having pizza.nyc owned by Pizza Hut, we could have it owned by a local entity dedicated to the advancement of New York's pizza industry. Or we could require that hotels.nyc present a directory of all the city's hotels, not just ones owned by an entity such as Hilton. I think there's a better way to approach this and am co-sponsoring a panel to explore the options. (The list of Premium Names, while not officially released, is available here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qeEPuuPQ3MxzDtUjNpWZy5milRVISvt-4QqBmHRgENQ/edit#gid=623997761>.) The panel is being convened by the New York Internet Society and Connecting.nyc Inc. on Wednesday, December 17th. It will explore options for assigning rights to these commons names, perhaps requiring Public Interest Commitments or some sort. The invitation to the December 17 panel is reprinted below. I hope my fellow members of the commons community can join us in this endeavor. Best, Tom Lowenhaupt ----------------------------------------------- Thomas Lowenhaupt, Founder & Chair Connecting.nyc Inc. [email protected] Connectingnyc.org Jackson Hts., NYC 718 639 4222 * While the rules call for .nyc names to be sold to "New Yorkers only" the reality might be different. But this is a topic for another time. The New York Internet Society & Connecting.nyc Inc. ------------------------------ Holiday Panel and Party December 17, 6 PM - 10 PM 55 Washington Street, Room 321, Brooklyn (DUMBO) Map <https://www.google.com/maps/place/55+Washington+St,+Brooklyn,+NY+11201/@40.7028583,-73.9893922,17z/data=%213m1%214b1%214m2%213m1%211s0x89c25a315b52f0c3:0xf9997acf98096785> (late arrivers needing entry assistance should call 917 579 2950) Livestream too: https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/dotnyc 6:30pm Premium .nyc Domain Names & Public Interest Commitments Should those receiving development rights to domain names such as hotels.nyc, news.nyc, pizza.nyc, schools.nyc & sports.nyc have strings attached to their operation? Should these names be guides to our city’s resources? Or should Hotels.nyc’s owner be allowed to list only Hilton’s New York hotels? - Avri Doria, Internet policy expert - Gabriel Levitt, V.P. Pharmacychecker.com - Thomas Lowenhaupt, Connecting.nyc Inc. - Jeff Merritt, Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation (Invited) - City’s contractor for .nyc TLD, (Invited) 7:30pm Party with fellow members. Meet prospective members. Holiday cheer & a light snack RSVP: [email protected] ------------------------------ ISOC-NY <http://isoc-ny.org/> - advocating for New York’s Internet needs since 1997 Connecting .NYC <http://www.connectingnyc.org/> - shaping .nyc and our dotNeighborhoods -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Making Worlds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Kevin Hansen, LEED AP, PG Director / Principal Scientist PeterEarth.org [email protected] -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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