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The dotNYC Team

dotNYC LLC is a company of Internet veterans based in New York City who have been working with the Mayor’s office and the City Council, especially City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Councilmember Gale Brewer. Together they have launched five successful top-level domains, advised dozens of others and created the model for public-private partnerships for geographic-based web addresses. dotNYC’s efforts to create the .NYC web address moved into full swing last year when ICANN for the first time implemented policies to encourage new domains based on city names.

dotNYC CEO Antony Van Couvering has deep experience in the domain name field and was a creator of ICANN. He has started and run several businesses specializing in creating and operating domains, including NetNames USA and NameEngine, both of which were acquired by public companies.

dotNYC founder William Semich is a founder of ICANN and helped design the initial processes and policies for creating new Top Level Domains in the 1990s. He remains active in .asia, which he helped found. He is a former senior staff member to the mayor of Boston and served as that city’s director of finance and deputy director of economic development.

dotNYC COO Mark Zuroff has been working in the domain name field for over 10 years as manager of the .NU top-level domain, and over 28 years experience in-house and as an entrepreneur leading organizations in strategic and business planning; designing and implementing accounting, forecasting and control procedures; and developing plans to return companies to profitability. Mark is a member of the Financial Executives Institute, the Turnaround Management Association, the Executives Club of Boston, the Association for Corporate Growth, and the Institute of Management Accountants. Mark has been awarded Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Beta Kappa memberships, a research fellowship at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University and a National Science Foundation Award.