Five .NYC domain names making fun of Michael Bloomberg — John Oliver’s

Comedian pokes fun at Michael Bloomberg’s domain names, which Reglike revealed the prior week.

The prior week I wrote a story regarding Michael Bloomberg’s 400 .nyc domain names. The over-the-top defensive registrations included everything from MichaelBloombergisaWeiner.nyc to MikeIsTooShort.nyc
to MikeBloombergisaDweeb.nyc.

The story got picked up broadly, making it to the Wall Street Journal and even CNBC’s Squawk Box. It also just got some hilarious play on John Oliver’s HBO show The prior week Tonight. (Unfortunately, it didn’t mention Reglike.)

The John Oliver clip mentions a number of funny Bloomberg domain names the show registered and encouraged viewers to go register more.

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I just reviewed the .NYC zone file and found a couple more domains Oliver registered, each of which links to a website containing just a photo.

Here are the three he mentioned on-air:

michaelbloombergisawiener.nyc
tinytinymikebloomberg.nyc
bloombergeatsbabycornasifitsrealcorn.nyc

Here are two more I found registered to HBO that weren’t mentioned in the show, or at least in the clip:

mikebloombergcallshispenisthemtrain.nyc
bloombergoncepaidtwomiddleclassimmigrantstofighteachother.nyc

In case you’re wondering, the last one weighs in at 57 characters (not counting .nyc), making it the longest .nyc domain name right now registered. It narrowly defeats cheating-spouse-private-investigator-forensics-crimelab.nyc.

It looks like a few of Oliver’s viewers took his call to action, registering domains such as mikebloombergisaleprechaun.nyc.

(Thanks Michele)

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