I'm not one to follow the intricacies of top level domains, registrars and their interNICene conflicts too closely, but I was surprised to see in today's paper that Bloomberg & Pataki had announced the launch of a site www.lowermanhattan.info to keep the public updated on developments in that area. I had thought that these alternatives (like .name and .biz) to the old stalwart domains would be the purview of scams, spam, and the like.
Looking into the .info TLD a little more, I found that it had already been used for a WTC Relief site and the MTA. In fact, these are the only prominent .info users highlighted on the Afilias global registrar site that seem to doing something beyond staking out the .info turf to protect their brands. I don't know if the usage of .info by New York City governmental organizations is a harbinger of the future importance of this domain or just some quirk of bureaucracy (e.g. the MTA said cited as a motivation for its choice the fact that its old URL, www.mta.nyc.ny.us, was too hard to remember). But I did find it a little too eerily appropriate that .info's open registration and start-up period began on September 12th.
