Businesses have long jockeyed for an address on Fifth Avenue — and the city is now hoping it can create a similar phenomenon online.

New York City is gearing up to apply for a new Internet domain with a .nyc suffix, a move made possible by a recent decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the Internet address system, to approve the creation of a large number of new so-called top-level domains.

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