. NYC the opening of the domain name triggered the Gold rush

Domain Name City (domain.cn) November 11 News, according to the Wall Street Journal reported: Since last month, NYC's domain name suffix to the market, many interested people took the opportunity to gold, register hot domain names, and then resell profits.

The domain name of NYC is the same as the domain suffix of. com and. org, with a suffix of New York in English, with a registration fee of USD 25 (HK $194) for each domain. Since the launch, there are a lot of "gold digger" opportunity to make money, someone was blown up a one-time sweep of 400 domain names, including Cognac.nyc, Loanmodification.nyc, and so on, its register of a real estate network REO.NYC domain name more than 25,000 U.S. dollars ( About HK $194,000).

At present, the domain name registered with the. NYC has exceeded 5000, of which more than 60 are related to pizza, and the former mayor of New York Bloomberg's law firm has registered hundreds of such URLs, such as KINGBLOOMBERG.NYC, to avoid subsequent abuses.

There are also some domain name investors said that it is not urgent to sell their own register of the domain name, the future will be sold. Previously, the Web site of the. com, such as restaurants.com and Slots.com, was sold at a sky-high price of more than 5 million US dollars (HK $38.76 million).