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July 22 - 28, 2009
DOT’S THE WAY I LIKE IT:
We bumped into
Paul Garrin
on Avenue A the other day and got the latest on his ongoingeffort to have his NAME.SPACE company recognized as thesole rightful owner of .nyc. Garrin also has hundreds of other so-called top-level domain names that he lays claim to, but recentlynarrowed the list down to a “Top 20,” which includes, in alpha-betical order, .art, .blog, .cam, .film, .food, .free, .gallery, .gay,.green, .media, .music, .now, .nyc, .peace, .people, .radio, .shop,.space, .sucks — one of our personal favorites — and, last but notleast, .video. The East Village Internet guru said that since it nowseems that the city is no longer interested in actually running orowning .nyc, he’s forging ahead with his plan to sign up peoplefor .nyc, plus any of these domain names, for the low cost of just$30 a pop. He’ll be tabling at the HOWL! Festival later this sum-mer. In the meantime, Garrin’s looking for neighborhood-based“domain agents” — we know, it sounds a bit “Matrix”-like — tosign up new clients in the East Village, West Village, Soho, etc.Each domain agent will get about one-third of the purchase price,or $10, and will keep raking in this same amount annually if theclient renews. In other words, sign up 100 people per year, andyou pocket a cool $1,000. “I actually offered
Jim Power
to do it,”Garrin said of how he tried to help out the East Village’s “MosaicMan,” though adding that he doesn’t know if Power is “orientedenough” to handle it. Garrin has been crunching the numberson his “Top 20,” and feels that in three years, they would breakeven, while after five years, they would generate $10 million. Of course, Garrin still has to get ICAAN — the mysterious cyberbody that regulates and assigns domain names — to recognizethat he owns .nyc, not to mention the 19 other ones. He doesn’tuse the word “buy” to describe this, rather that NAME.SPACEwill merely pay the “processing fee.” Although the city said itwould cost $180,000 to buy .nyc from ICAAN, Garrin hopes hewon’t have to pay this same amount for each additional T.L.D.,but more along the lines of $5,000 per. Meanwhile, Garrinnotes — in addition to trying to help out “Mosaic Man” — he’spumping money into the local economy in others ways, such asby having Works in Progress on E. Fourth St. produce “I
♥
.nyc”T-shirts and tote bags. These snazzy perks only will be given tothose cool enough to have purchased a NAME.SPACE domainname. For more information, visit http://registerNYC.net .
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST:
Stop the presses!
Don MacPherson
has cut off his ponytail. At least sowe were told when we stopped in at The Cupping Roomon Broome St. in Soho last week. Our source told us it’spart of MacPherson’s “new image.” It couldn’t hurt, sinceMacPherson’s previous image certainly took a hit fourmonths ago, when he and his wife were charged in an alleged$50 million S&M/Hamptons mortgage scam.
TEFLON STONEWALL?
Following up on last week’sScoopy’s exclusive on the Stonewall Veterans’ Association’sbeing stonewalled thus far in trying to get Community Board 2’sblessing for its Sept. 26 Greenwich Ave. street fair, let’s not forgetthat C.B. 2 nearly put the kibosh on S.V.A. last year. Just like thisyear, C.B. 2’s Street Activities Committee last year was having ahard time determining the “legitimacy of the organization andtheir nexus to the community,” which wasn’t helped by the lackof information forthcoming from S.V.A.
Phil Mouquinho
, thecommittee’s former chairperson, was getting tough on S.V.A.’spresident,
Williamson Henderson
, at one meeting last year, andHenderson stormed out of the room. “This guy did not have anylist of where the money [from the street fair] went,” Mouquinhosaid. “He got up and left the meeting and was shouting and veryindignant.” Right around that time, though, Mouquinho was notreappointed to C.B. 2, which he claims was payback by BoroughPresident
Scott Stringer
for his speaking out against the SpringSt. Sanitation megagarage project. Mouquinho’s replacement ascommittee chairperson,
Amanda Kahn Fried
, was equally hardon S.V.A. — but she, in turn, was pulled off the board over aconflict of interest with her job, though reappointed later on.As a result, as less stringent committee members took charge,S.V.A.’s street fair slipped through and got approved. Could thesame process be repeating this year? In the mold of Mouquinoand Fried, attorney
Evan Lederman
, the current committeechairperson, really had been putting all street-fair applicantsthrough the ringer, demanding that all the committee’s questionsbe answered. But lately he’s been totally tied up with work on theG.M. bailout, missing committee meetings, and in his absence,committee members seemingly more sympathetic to Henderson—
Carol Yankay
and
Joe Flahaven
— appear to be running theshow. “At some point, it takes on a distasteful feeling of being sin-gled out,” Flahaven said, regarding the committee’s treatment of S.V.A.’s application. Though off the board now, Mouquinho stillmaintains that Henderson’s application shouldn’t be approved.“I’ll never forget that he said part of the money went to care of his pink Cadillac,” Mouquinho scoffed incredulously. “I think it’sstill yet to be determined,” Lederman said on Tuesday on how thecommittee will vote on S.V.A.’s application. Checking the A.G.’s Web site, he said, “It shows that they filed, but they haven’tfiled since 1999 — that to me means it’s useless. The charitableinformation they sent us hasn’t been updated for a decade.” C.B.2 will consider the matter at its full board meeting on Thursday.Meanwhile, Henderson left us a message saying he originallybecame “famous” because he was “a millionaire” — the inferencebeing that he doesn’t need the funds from the street fair?
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