.NYC one of five top level domains launching this stretch

.NYC launches this stretch and Donuts’ well runs dry.

It’s time for the weekly overview of fresh top level domain names coming out this stretch.

It will be brief, as just five are on the docket as best I can tell. But one of them is certainly big.

Monday

I think .Desi (definition) went live today. It’s hard to tell, though, since nic.desi has basically no information on it.

Wednesday

.NYC will launch to great fanfare on Wednesday. This is a big test for geographic top level domain names, especially ones with restrictive registration policies. More on that later.

Also on Wednesday, Donuts releases .city at regular prices.

It doesn’t launch a domain in Early Access this stretch. This is the first week since Donuts started rolling out TLDs in January that it hasn’t had a fresh one to release.

Rightside launches .lawyer and .attorney on Wednesday. I’d imagine if you buy one, you ought to probably buy the other, too.