Global City TLDs
At OpenPlans.org there is a bunch of information relating to the importance and opportunity for global cities to obtain their own domain suffix, i.e. .Berlin, .nyc, or, possibly, .Ottawa?
The Appendix to the document reads:
Appendix 1
Global Cities
The following list of Global Cities was compiled from Research Bulletin #5, 1999 and Research Bulletin #146, 2004 of the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC) at Loughborough University. The GaWC cities were selected on size, diversity, economic, cultural, and political linkages, and the availability of advanced globalization services such as accountancy, advertising, finance and law by international corporations. The GaWC inventories identified a group of global cities and several sub groups exhibiting some characteristics of global (sometimes referred to as world) cities. The following listing consolidates cities from Research Bulletins #5 and #146 and adds ICANN region identification, as follows: Europe (1); Asia/Australia/Pacific (2); Latin America/Caribbean islands (3); Africa (4); North America (5).
I am including a visualization of the first-tier cities for TLD consideration. It was made using Cytoscape. This is the first of many posts on the subject.
Posted 4 months ago
by Morgen Peers
