Extract: "During the “landrush phase”, over 1,000 .NYC domain names had more than one interested party and were thus headed to auction. Ten domain names, according registry records, sold for more than $10,000".
Source: http://domainnamewire.com/2014/12/03/meet-8-people-nyc-domain-name/.
Domainers register their domain names with Uniregistry.