.NYC

.NYC
Overview
Introduced	2014
Category	Geographic
Registry	City of New York
IDN Capable	N/A
Dispute Policy	ICANN Rules
Webpage	Register .NYC
Legal Information
Legal	.NYC Policies

Registrant Registration Nexus Policy

1. Natural Person. A natural person whose primary place of domicile is a valid physical address in the City of New York (“Nexus Category 1”)
2. Entity or Organization. An entity or organization that has a physical street address in the City of New York (“Nexus Category 2”).
3. P.O. Box Address Invalid. The existence of a P.O. Box address in the City of New York shall not qualify for purposes of meeting the Nexus Policy.

Registry

TLD	-
Registry	-
Dispute Policy	-
Limitations	Registrant Contacts: Required: / Maximum: Admin Contacts: Required: / Maximum: Tech Contacts: Required: / Maximum: Billing Contacts: Required: / Maximum:
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Allowed number of NS	to

Periods

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API

Domain Registration

Domains can be registered with the API AddDomain command.

command = AddDomain
domain  = (DOMAIN)

REQUIRED

ownercontact0 = (CONTACT)
admincontact0 = (CONTACT)
techcontact0 = (CONTACT)
billingcontact0 = (CONTACT)
nameserver0 = (NAMESERVER)
nameserver1 = (NAMESERVER)
X-NYC-REGISTRANT-NEXUS-CATEGORY = 1 | 2 

OPTIONAL

auth = (TEXT) | (NULL)
period = (PERIOD)
transferlock = 0 | 1 | (NULL)

Domain Transfer

There is a special procedure to handle a domain transfer. Please contact our Support-Team if you should need further information.

command = TransferDomain
domain = (DOMAIN)

REQUIRED

auth = (TEXT)

OPTIONAL

period = (PERIOD)
transferlock = 0 | 1 | (NULL)
action = REQUEST | APPROVE | DENY | CANCEL | USERTRANSFER

Delete Domain

Domains can be deleted with the API DeleteDomain command.
There is no Deletion Restorable Period.

command = DeleteDomain
domain = (DOMAIN)

Restore Domain

command = RestoreDomain
domain = (DOMAIN)

OPTIONAL

subuser = (TEXT)
renewalmode = (NULL) | (TEXT)

Ownerchange

command = ModifyDomain
domain = (DOMAIN)

REQUIRED

ownercontact0 = (CONTACT)

TLD specific

Registration

The City of New York desires to have only those individuals or entities having a substantive and lawful connection to the City be permitted to register for .NYC domain names ("Nexus Policy").

Registrants in .NYC must be either:

a natural person whose primary place of domicile is a valid physical address in the City of New York (“Nexus Category 1”) or

an entity or organization that has a physical street address in the City of New York (“Nexus Category 2”).

X-NYC-REGISTRANT-NEXUS-CATEGORY = 1 | 2 

The existence of a P.O. Box address in the City of New York shall not qualify for purposes of meeting the Nexus Policy. Registrants may find more information about compliance with the City tax laws at the City of New York Department of Finance’s website (currently at www.nyc.gov/finance).

Address Validation

The mentioned owner address can be checked at following external LINK:
https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action?mode=0&refresh=true

Authorization code

There are special requirements regarding the format of the authorization code. Please consider the following restrictions, if you want to assign a new authorization code to a .COM domain:

• Minimum 8 characters
• having at least one (1) numeric,
• one (1) alphabetic, and
• one (1) special character

You may generate a valid random auth code by adding this parameter to the ModifyDomain command:

command = ModifyDomain
domain = (DOMAIN)

REQUIRED

generaterandomauth = 1

Addons

RegistrarOC

No special procedures.