Michael Bloomberg protects himself in .NYC.
Who is one of the new .NYC domain name’s top registrants?
None other than former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Or a law firm representing him, to be more specific*.
I count 400 domain names that appear to have been registered on Bloomberg’s behalf. Many of them seem like reasonable registrations to protect his interests:
- bloombergfamilyfoundation.nyc
- bloomberggiving.nyc
- officialmikebloomberg.nyc
But there are also lots of defensive registrations that might give you a chuckle:
- BloombergBlows.nyc
- MikeIsTooShort.nyc
- MikeBloombergisaDweeb.nyc
- MikeBloombergRocks.nyc (he didn’t bother with the .rocks version)
- MikeBloombergblows.nyc
- MichaelBloombergisaWeiner.nyc
- Fuckbloomberg.nyc
- BloombergistooRich.nyc
- getalifemike.nyc
- BloombergisanAss.nyc
It seems that the domain name registration strategy was queued off of registrations in .com. About 80% of the registrations appear to also be registered in .com.
The registrations even include the typo wwwbloomberg.nyc.
Some defensive registrations certainly seem unnecessary. Was it really necessary to register every year of MikeBloomberg2002.nyc to MikeBloomberg2013.nyc?
You can see the full list of Michael Bloomberg domains here.
* As this story has taken off, I’ve had questions for specifics on who registered the domains. 171 were registered by the law firm Wilkie Farr and Gallagher. The remainder were registered by family/wealth management company Geller & Co. The “negative” ones were registered by the law firm.
register every year of MikeBloomberg2002.nyc to MikeBloomberg2013.nyc? it’s really unnecessary… Amazing!!
The whole thing seems so pointless to me. Regardless of how little the cost, why even spend the time registering 99% of those, especially the defensive ones?
Why should he even care if somebody builds a site called “BloombergIsAnAss.NYC”?
I didn’t realize a domain name wasn’t official until prefaced by “official”.
Mike, you’d better hurry to snag
OfficialTheDomains.com
TheOfficialDomains.com
TheDomainsOfficially.com
OfficiallyTheDomains.com
NoReallyWeAreTheDomains.com
NoReallyWeAreTheOfficialDomainsOfficially.com
or perhaps
NoReallyWeAreTheOfficialTheDomainsOfficiallyWeAreNotKiddingHereFolks.com
Or maybe to make things official, someone will spearhead a .OFFICIAL in the next TLD round.
Congrats , your research was mentioned by 3 major nyc news papers and sites. Talking about power of strong gtld
Thanks. It was also on CNBC this morning.
Add new york observer to that. How about that some positive domain industry coverage for a change. And congrats on CNBC.
Now add Huntington post….
@Allemann
Congratulations. Good work
Please look into the following. All of us that tried registering some potentially great .nyc domains hit the electronic fence at the .nyc registry due their holding back some domains they feel were important in some way. While I did not foresee former mayor Bloomberg as a .nyc junkie, the current mayor is.
Pre launch, it was impossible to register DeBlasio (s u c k s) .nyc and some others. In the morning of October 8 landrush launch, “d e b l a s i o s u c k s.nyc) showed up in the whois, along with other domains the .nyc registry held back. At launch on October 8, they all belonged to the registry itself. In their house account.
d e b l a s i o s u c k s.nyc
Registrant Contact ID: CONT8203
Registrant Contact Name: CCI REG SA CCI REG SA
Registrant Contact Organization: CCI REG SA-
Contact Address: 379 Broadway, NY NY
Reg Contact phone: +1.9175129417
Reg Contact Email: [email protected]
Admin Contact:
the same except the Contact ID is: CONT8204
Billing Contact:
the same except Contact ID is: CONT8206
Tech Contact:
the same except Contact ID is: CONT8205
NYC Contact ID: (nexus)
the same except Contact ID is: CONT8207
Created by registrar: CCI REG S.A.
Name Server: NS1.HELLODOTNYC.COM
Name Server: NS2.HELLODOTNYC.COM
Name Server: NS3.HELLODOTNYC.COM
A week later it changed to:
Registrant Contact ID: CONT2864
Registrant Contact Name: GREG WASSERSTROM
Registrant Contact Organization: SPEARHEAD DIGITAL-
Contact Address: 32 Court St Suite 2109, Brooklyn NY
Reg Contact phone: +1.7188587163
Reg Contact Email: [email protected]
Admin Contact:
the same except the Contact ID is: CONT2865
Billing Contact:
the same except Contact ID is: CONT2867
Tech Contact:
the same except Contact ID is: CONT2866
NYC Contact ID: (nexus)
the same except Contact ID is: CONT2868
Name Server: NS1.HELLODOTNYC.COM
Name Server: NS2.HELLODOTNYC.COM
Name Server: NS3.HELLODOTNYC.COM
According to the spearheaddigital.co website:
Spearhead Digital is a brand new digital agency committed to helping Democratic candidates and progressive causes make an impact and build support online.
Guess what happened to DeBlasio2017.nyc. Same thing, but this one was “house registered” from the beginning by GREG WASSERSTROM with all of the same contact data as the above mentioned domain. The only difference is with the registrar.
The current registrar data is:
Created by Registrar: INJECTCSR
Last Updated by Registrar: CCI REG S.A.
Domain Registration Date: 2014-10-03T16:39:52Z
Domain Expiration Date: 2015-10-02T23:59:59Z
Domain Last Updated Date: 2014-10-17T03:48:45Z
Apparently the first registrar was INJECTCSR instead of CCI REG S.A. as in the other domain.
My take away – Bloomberg probably paid for his domains – DeBlasio used his power as Mayor and had the registry pay for, and do his dirty work. Abuse of Office! Shame on DeBlasio. Shame on .nyc
And people think “domainers” are sketchy people?!
ah yes,I notice that they didnt yet take boycottmoncler twitter acct . By way have a look at http://www.BloombergPlace.co.uk ,lol (Fools they still dont realise even though they own it !)
Hard to understand why, shows you that if you have money to spend you can spend it anyway you want to!