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Los Angeles Gets Own TLD
DM420 writes "On June 9th, Los Angeles officially becomes the world's first city to have its own Internet domain.Great to hear since one day I hope to be an owner of my own TLD and this is a step in the right direction. ;)
The registry is located at www.la and further details at DMnews.com" Looks like an Irish firm made a deal with Laos to use the .la TLD. Looks to be on the pricier side of domains, though.
Wait wait wait, "officially"? Isn't the .la TLD still officially assigned to Laos, and they've just cut a deal with some company to promote it as a Los Angeles TLD, just like the TLDs of Western Samoa, Tuvalu and Belize are promoted as "Web Site", "Television" and "Business" respectively? Does the City of Los Angeles even know about this?
Seriously, this isn't worthy of a news article. It's just a country trying to make money and a company trying to make more money by trying to trick people into believing that anyone cares. If ICANN had assigned a TLD to a city, THAT would be news.
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A finer city does not exist, and a no city deserves it's own domain more then the great Los Angelas.
Using this argument, I guess the .uk domain is reserved for ucky food?
Won't this be confusing when the state of Louisiana gets its own domain?
Given that most of the world's porn comes out of the Los Angeles area, I'm pretty far from surprised.
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Who's dick do I have to suck to get la.la.la .. oh boy.. I need that domain!!
/. is a little behind in the submission queue...
PS: If this article was written before June 9 I think
From the www.la page.....
Premium Names
coke.la $100.00
hooker.la $100.00
pharmaceutical.la $100.00
consultancy.la $100.00
Could raise some "red" flags.
Lawrence Lessig is my personal hero.
Laos can do what they like with their CTLD. They can whore it out to whoever they want. Seen the prices on the "good" .tv domains? Think .tv domains are used for Tuvalu citizens?
It's a separate country...or maybe even a planet. ;)
I'm sorry, but it is. We should be moving away from geographical boundaries. And the fact is, there's already .ca.us, which I'm sure could have a .la.ca.us domain.
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On the right hand column at www.la, it lists the recently registered. Guess what? The first one is adultsonly.la, the second one is adults.la.
Great.
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Why do we need more top level domains? It's already getting too expensive to protect sites - I ain't a freaking money making corporation, and I don't want folks that troll my site to take out my domain name with a new TLD suffix in order to slam my site when it comes up in a google search.
.com/.net/.org name under a .tv or .la domain then using deep pockets and lawyers on call to sue MY site away from ME.
That's all I need - some Hollywood guy grabbing my
It's fricking BOGUS - It's just a way to milk large corporations for money to protect the copyright, and it ends up screwing the little guys like me.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
...keke.la is already registered :(.
www.We'reBrokeSoWe'reRaisingYourTaxes
Darn, it's already taken.
Hey I think that was the same people trying to sell me the golden gate bridge....
Just a quickie to plug OpenNIC. It's nifty, like www.yournamehere.geek. Or even create your own TLD altogeather. Someone should tell LA about this. I already emailed the mayor of Long Beach (just south of LA) but she is an idiot. Talked to her a few times, then helped another canidate with his campagne aginster her. I'm just getting off topic hre aren't I. The point being I am having a tough time getting any local govt to listen to reason to open source/alternate IT/anything not sole by a big name crop.
Drives me insane. Sorry for the rant.
New York is gonna be pissed.
What crapo.la. It can be yours for only $50! Too bad I don't have that much moo.la to spare.
Sorry.. That was really bad.
Cities should not have TLDs. There's too many of them. At the very least they should be under a .us domain or, even better, under a .ca.us domain.
I find it rather sad that this gets posted as news on slashdot, given that slashdot is supposed to be run by geeks. I'd expect this from my local newspaper, but CowboyNeal should know better.
Having said that, what happens when the people of Laos decide they want to use their TLD? I know it's a small mountainous country with very little technology, but I just heard a story yesterday about how the small country of Bhutan just got cable TV (a country where Buddhist monks outnumber soldiers). Point being it'll probbably happen eventually.
AccountKiller
adults.la
That's classic. God bless America...
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As of this posting, crapo.la is still open. If only it wasn't way out of my vanity domain purchacing budget...
Does narcissism count as a hobby? --Shawn Latimer
I think this is nice, but I thought that primary domains were sacred and were meant to be kept that way. I guess after all those countries sold their rights to domains like .tv etc this should of been seen as the next logical step. I just hope it doesn't cause problems if this repeats several thousand times.
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I find it amusing that one of the premium names listed for sale on the right is "hooker.la".
Won't that be nice? I'll be able to readily tell websites in Burnt Scrotum, NM from those in Navel Lint, IA. I'll never know how I got along before.
The coolest voice ever.
The Holy See (Vatican City) has its own TLD, .va, and it's a city. I think the calls that Los Angeles is the first city with a TLD are a little premature.
register Falalalalalalaaalaaa.la
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
What's going to happen when these countries who sell out finally get wired? What will they do for domains?
Could anything more complex than a single celled organism get its own TLD? Hell, why not every single celled organism too? One for every molecule? sure thing!
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Now, "First city with a TLD and drive-through breast augmentation" - that I would believe.
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That gave me a shocker, thought ICANN is being controlled by the Republicans now. Such deals between countries and companies is becoming and thats all fine if more than half of that countrys population agrees with it. I wonder what happens if after the next election (or revolution) in Laos, the next leader asks for their TLD back.
.tv and others are used for port and cheap personal site hosting. More formal pages in the US just use .com and ones up here in Canada use .ca, but few would want to fork out for a weird TLD unless they have a good idea like http://cr.yp.to
I still doubt many people will actually use it, as most of
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
Due to the fact that you fantasize about things like this, let me guess...
Heh.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
Hahaha this is a great feature. Check out the type of domains that are already being taken.
TRASH: 16
(including porn, hair-transplant, breast/penis enlargement, lasik surgery, and other spam)
CORPORATE: 37
(companies such as FOX trying to reserve their trademarks under every TLD possible)
DICTIONARY/GENERIC: 28
(dictionary words and other obvious domain name real estate such as "1.la")
OTHER: 137
(names that I didn't recognize or didn't fit into these categories)
Wow, I have too much time on my hands.
I really hope that one day I can start my own country and get the wn domain, so my email address can be sh@wn. That'd rule!
Next valentines day, maybe someone can hook thier geek lady up with "c@r.la".
Does narcissism count as a hobby? --Shawn Latimer
Just imagine:
etc.
Hm... a.la, ah.la and al.la are already registered, too. so I can't start that e-biz project, Mumford's Sandwich and Magic Shop, either.
This sucks!
Get off my launchpad!
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Who stole slashdot.la?
You couldn't be more right. But if someone's going to call .la the TLD for Los Angeles, then perhaps they should also consider these other "city-specific" TLDs, most of which have been around far longer than the Laotian domain: .au - Austin, Texas, USA (actually Australia) .ca - Cardiff, Wales (Canada) .be - Berlin, Germany (Belgium) .br - Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA (Brazil) .br - Brussels, Belgium (Brazil) .lv - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (Latvia) .no - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (Norway) .pa - Paris, France (Panama) .pe - Perth, Australia (Peru)
Just blows the "Los Angeles is first" argument out of the water doesn't it?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Los Angeles officially becomes the world's first city to have its own Internet domain
.hk? Hong Kong is a city of China(before that HK is a British colony city) and has its own TLD for years.
What about
I looked up a simple three letter domain name, and it was available, so there are probably quite a few good ones left. Thatâ(TM)s the good news. The bad news is it was $100 a year! This should prove very lucrative for LA. I personally wouldn't pay that much for a domain, especially since .la isn't all that cool or unique, but I'm sure there are lots of people who will.
"Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs" - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
If ICANN had assigned a TLD to a city, THAT would be news.
Two words: Vatican City. Two letters: va.
As pointed out by CanSpice.
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falalalalalalala.la but its already taken.
Damn it.
so is la.la, of course.
Here's all the english words in YAWL's word list ending in .la
My choice of dracu.la was unavailable but doremefasol.la is currently available.
[support@andromeda yawl-0.2]$ cat word.list |grep -e '^.*la$'|sed s/la$/.la/ |tr '\n' ','
abol.la,acero.la,acetabu.la,acicu.la,acush.la,agi. la,ake.la,a.la,alu.la,alveo.la,am.la,ampul.la,amyg da.la,ancil.la,ango.la,animalcu.la,antiguerril.la, archencepha.la,areo.la,arga.la,armil.la,arol.la,ar ugo.la,arugu.la,aspergil.la,asy.la,au.la,aureo.la, auricu.la,axil.la,azol.la,bacu.la,banderil.la,barb o.la,baril.la,blastu.la,boffo.la,bo.la,bonsel.la,b oy.la,bracio.la,bresao.la,brucel.la,bul.la,caba.la ,cabba.la,cabril.la,caffi.la,cafi.la,calendu.la,ca l.la,camaril.la,campanu.la,cande.la,candelil.la,ca nel.la,cannu.la,cano.la,canta.la,canu.la,capitel.l a,capitu.la,carambo.la,cascaril.la,castel.la,caval .la,cebadil.la,cedil.la,cedu.la,cel.la,cerebel.la, cevadil.la,chal.la,che.la,chim.la,chinchil.la,chlo rel.la,cho.la,chol.la,chrysocol.la,chuckawal.la,ch uckwal.la,cica.la,cicatricu.la,cingu.la,cito.la,ci tronel.la,cladophyl.la,clarabel.la,clausu.la,clavi cu.la,clitel.la,coagu.la,coa.la,cocobo.la,codil.la ,co.la,columel.la,comatu.la,copu.la,coquil.la,cora l.la,corbicu.la,corel.la,cornicu.la,corol.la,count ergueril.la,counterguerril.la,crapo.la,crayo.la,cr ibel.la,criol.la,crota.la,cuadril.la,cubicu.la,cun abu.la,cupo.la,cupu.la,curricu.la,cuticu.la,cypse. la,dharmsa.la,dharmsha.la,diencepha.la,diverticu.l a,dob.la,dongo.la,dou.la,drosophi.la,drugo.la,eido .la,encepha.la,epencepha.la,exemp.la,facu.la,falba .la,falcu.la,fascio.la,fave.la,favel.la,febricu.la ,fecu.la,fel.la,fenestel.la,feru.la,fibril.la,fibu .la,fi.la,fistu.la,flabel.la,flagel.la,flotil.la,f ormu.la,fossu.la,fothergil.la,foveo.la,fraxinel.la ,frenu.la,furcu.la,fustanel.la,ga.la,gastru.la,gen tianel.la,gi.la,girando.la,glabel.la,gladio.la,glu mel.la,gondo.la,goril.la,granadil.la,grano.la,gren adil.la,gubernacu.la,gueril.la,guerril.la,gu.la,gu s.la,gypsophi.la,hala.la,harma.la,haustel.la,hemio .la,hexap.la,hibernacu.la,hi.la,hilahi.la,hol.la,h oop.la,hordeo.la,hu.la,hydril.la,hy.la,hyperbo.la, ichthyocol.la,ido.la,impa.la,incunabu.la,infu.la,i nfundibu.la,inocu.la,insu.la,intermaxil.la,interva l.la,inu.la,inya.la,isabel.la,jha.la,jugu.la,kaba. la,kabba.la,kafi.la,kama.la,kame.la,kami.la,kante. la,kgot.la,kib.la,klebsiel.la,koa.la,ko.la,kwe.la, .la,label.la,lamel.la,ligu.la,lingu.la,lobo.la,lod icu.la,lunu.la,macu.la,mamil.la,mammil.la,manca.la ,manda.la,mando.la,mandor.la,mani.la,manil.la,mant il.la,manzanil.la,maqui.la,marcel.la,marsa.la,masa .la,massoo.la,masu.la,matamba.la,matricu.la,maxil. la,maxillu.la,medul.la,megil.la,me.la,mesc.la,mese ncepha.la,metencepha.la,micel.la,mineo.la,minneo.l a,mochi.la,mo.la,mol.la,moo.la,mortadel.la,moru.la ,movieo.la,movio.la,mozzarel.la,mul.la,myelencepha .la,nab.la,na.la,nal
If religous zealots don't believe in Evolution, then why are they so worried about bird flu?
What about .la.ca.us ? It seems silly that some Laoatian biz people can sell out their own countrymen, so now what's the point of the TLD system? I think ill buy iraq's tld (.iq) for some smarty-pants mensa sites.
The biggest trick the devil pulled was letting lawyers become politicians so they can write the laws.
For years and years and years "TO" (t-o) has been Toronto's nickname, so quite often you'll see some business around here use Tonga's .to TLD.
I'd say we beat LA to the punch.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
In the article it says "Laos originally was assigned the name by ICANN.". Does that mean that Laos has 'sold' the whole TLD? or just leased out like .tv, .ws?
.la."
.iq domain name and it's a great way to show off your IQs, and you later found out it's still originated from Iraq...
the formality is quite important, if it was just a lease, then these domain names shouldn't be advertised as if L.A. really "receives its own unique Internet address;
Imagine if someone told you can you now purchase
Same thing. The colloquial term "country" refers to a sovereign state with its territory. Speakers in the United States of America typically don't use the term "state" to refer to a sovereign state because "state" most often refers to non-sovereign political subdivisions roughly equivalent to Canadian provinces, Australian states, or possibly Japanese prefectures.
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It would only make sense for Los Angeles to have its own TLD if they were going to separate and form their own country. Or may they are on to something. That's it! They want their own TLD before an earthquake comes along and separates it from the U.S. mainland!
Given that the pr0n industry is pretty much centred in LA, how about oooh.la.la?
Meh. I'm wondering what all of the hoop.la is about...
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
1337.hackers.are.from.la
www.ny, anytime soon?
or www.nyc
Some background:
I have a client who bought one of the initial
Last December, he got a notice stating that the contract between Laos (the official holder of
The letter goes on to explain that ICANN changed the official name servers for
Suddenly, Dreamhost (the current
This has been a frustrating 6 months. My client has since registered a
After the $150 that has been wasted by my client for a "5-year" registration, what's to say that Dreamhost won't also get into a dispute and dump
.LA is a mess. I would not recommend registering a .LA domain until the whole mess stabilizes a bit.
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So who's going to buy http://www.goatse.la and www.goatsecx.la ??
Come on, I know you want to you!!
do.re.mi.fa.sol.la
:P
for a music store?
sorry, i need sleep urgently
I'm a chainsmokin' alcoholic sociopath, so-ci-o-path
Might as well turn this into a posting of alternate DNS root servers... who's got some good ones.. btw: I'm drunk... yeah DNS, yeah!
you so bad, la
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still available. get it while it is hot. me, i got better things to waste $50 bucks on then making some in lala land rich.
The .la domain has been on sale for two years now. And they have been charging that buttreamious $100/yr price for all that time. I wanted msgeek.la right when it was announced that the domains would be available. Then I found out the cost. :P
.la tld at Louisiana too. Like neworleans.la and hotjazz.la and cajun.la and mardigras.la and so on. I wonder if they gave up on that.
I got msgeek-la-ca.us instead. Not sure what I will do with it, but it's mine, all mine.
BTW they were marketing the
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Cobra.lalalalalalalalalala!
This I command!
Sharpies don't just sniff themselves.
A much better TLD for businesses in Los Angeles would be to have something like www.business-name.la.ca.us
Also aren't TLDs like www.la for countries?
Frankly as a resident of Los Angeles, I am insulted by this. In fact I should be getting a discount since I'm in LA!! :)
Also do they even check if you're actually in LA?
I don't know if Mayor Hahn and the city council might be upset or happy about this. But they might not be able to do much about it, since probably the city government has no jurisdiction over the TLD.
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French amateur porn site, maybe: "J'ai votre tour d'Eiffel dans mon pantalon, bébé!"
(I gots yer Eiffel Tower... in my pants, baby!)
Nope, sorry, a basketball site won't work.
I thought about it, but you know what they're like... nothing but
Get off my launchpad!
breast-implants.la
.nyc, well see something along the lines of...
plastic-surgery.la
hair-replacement.la
tittiesandass.la
tittyandass.la
botoxcosmetic.la
Apparently LA is hard at work to hold up its image...
I bet that once they decide to have a TLD
laywers.nyc
sueyourass.nyc
eytonycomovahhere.nyc
As of now, goodfel.la is still available..
from the who-gives-a-shit department?
I see a bunch of money grubbing bastards flocking to the .la domain just to peforming that age old tradition of cybersquatting.
Now don't get me wrong... I think it kicks ass in theory. Say what you will but L.A. is indeed a large media center, and is just dandy for popular stars of the silver screen to have their own place to promte them selves. Let's face it, your got comercial, then you've got L.A. it self, taking comercial to a whole new level(TM)(TM)(TM)(TM)(R)(C)
But I also see it as mostly looking like the real LA with the web equilivent people on the street selling maps to the stars homes. Popups galore, with the usual, "would you like this crappy site to be your start page". Oh wait, perhaps this will be the place to actually get the real nude photos of britney spears.
And ya know... it just fits! Arts, media, entertainment, crappy hotels, pornography, smog, really nasty attitude. This is L.A.! Gotta love it. Oh wait, i've never been back there, I didn't love it.
In short, I imagine sites under this domain being considered the least creditable unless having to do with music / film / entertainment industry.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Make me sad the small, indebted countries have to sell their country code TLDs to rich western capitalists.
can't believe no one mentioned Godzil.la yet, although it's already registered.
:)
but wait, zil.la is still available, so you can still have http://god.zil.la/ and this is a better choice because (1) you have a god in your URL, (2) zil is 3 characters, and is more rare than 6 characters domain names
Somebody in .la has a quick Christmas spirit to have already thought and bought.
What do you suppose they'll do with it?
Esteem isn't a zero sum game
I'm sure no one from the "Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands" really needs a domain, so why can't San Jose have .sj ;)?
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In theory, the City / Region of Hong Kong has its own tld. [.com.hk / .net.hk / .org.hk]
Hong Kong, which is a city under the People's Republic of China although with a slightly different visa regime, has its own TLD.
More than mere navel gazing.
Although it's a fair guess how many would get the Singlish joke.
What is Laos gonna do in 50 years or whenever it's actually a pretty wired country? What does gov.la point to? Something's gotta give in that time.
J
what about fish.net?
On the front page of www.la they have the following site listed:
café.la $100.00
However when you click on it to register it throws an error message becuase of the 'é' not being a valid character
I would feel sorry for any company if they actually registered that domain since almost noone would be able type the 'é' to visit their site.
(Yes I know there are ways of doing it, but most people couldn't figure it out)
...thats a bit pricy, considering say a .com domain can be regged for $7-8.
I wonder how much will somedomain.la cost after the original hype is gone.
it's gonna be great once the city of decatur finishes negotiating for all that unused .de domain space!
If you sign up for a domain name, type in some random number for the "Money Order #" method, the domain will appear to be REGISTERED! When you whois, it will say that it's been registered! This is a serious issue; even if the domain is in fact not registered until it's manually processed, people can not register that domain until its rejected (if indeed that happens, what are the chances that the registration actually goes through?)
Use this knowledge at your own risk.
This line is here to foil obnoxious lame post filter...
(Even More) Offtopic: Wouldn't it make more sense to give users more powerful message filtering capabilities than using faulty programming logic to block crapflooding (logic that also blocks legitimate posts, like code snippits or (on-topic) ascii art and poetry that happens to have uniform line lengths?
I suppose if I really cared, I could get a book on perl and hack around with the slashcode myself...has anyone ever tried doing a blog site in EJB?
"Nobody owns the fucking words man." - James Dean
Right at the top of the "newest registrations": fucknut.la. Somehow, this seems appropriate.
The domain name Business.com was sold for like 7.5 million back in 99. That gave the idea to thousands of squatters that there's money to be made in them thar domain names.
Karma: Can only be portioned out by the Cosmos.
Best thing I ever did. Clear vision is taken for granted by to many people.
Yay me!
when i can i have my dot art ?
Nah, if you really want to start a domain name rivalry, let Massachusetts register .sox.red...
Libertarians somehow believe that private businesses should be stronger than governments but weaker than individuals.
yeah, but my balls are still itchy, eh.
www.lala.land ...?
TLD owns you!!
apoligies in advance....
I think that countries that contribute to the mess by giving away their TLDs this way do not deserve a TLD of their own, and ICANN should revoke it.
grep "la$" /usr/share/dict/words | sed 's/la$/.la/'
l a koa.la Kua.la
Agrico.la Ange.la Ango.la Apalachico.la Aqui.la
Be.la Bel.la
Caligu.la Camil.la Car.la Carme.la Cinderel.la
Del.la Denebo.la drosophi.la
El.la Estel.la
flotil.la formu.la
Godzil.la gondo.la goril.la grano.la
Guatema.la guerril.la
hyperbo.la
Isabel.la
Jol.la
Kampa.
Lei.la Li.la Lo.la Loyo.la Ludmil.la
Mani.la Missou.la Modu.la Monongahe.la Motoro.la
nab.la nebu.la
Pame.la parabo.la Pau.la peninsu.la Pensaco.la
Peril.la phy.la Priscil.la
Rosel.la
Savonaro.la Sca.la Scyl.la Shei.la
Sim.la Simu.la spatu.la Stel.la
Trichinel.la
umbrel.la Ursu.la
Valhal.la vanil.la Ve.la Vel.la Venezue.la
Victro.la vil.la
Wil.la
Singapore .sg .mc .hk .mo .gi .kw .va .lu .sh
Monaco
Hong Kong
Macau
Gibraltar
Kuwait
Vatican
Luxembourg
Saint Helena
Of these, most are indpendent city-states (or village-states), except for HK and Macau, which were European colonies and are now Chinese ones, Saint Helena, and Gibraltar, British colonies.
I know that the DNS was designed to name network resources and this type of naming mentality is just wrong. The bad precendt was probably set years ago. Simmilar to the 'it shouldn't be www.somthing.com' but 'www.something.com.us(a?)' viewpoint. I belive that location-based names should be more geograpically based, so when read in reverse it tells you where it is to avoid confusion. city.state.(com, org, etc).country. Which if you wanted to find it you look at country 'country' find the state of 'state' and look for the city of 'city'. Like www.la.ca.com.us or www.dal.tx.com.us Who wants to see names of cities getting hijacked? We allready have enough of that with squatters and sounds-like domains.
Tell that to the myriad of fools from Austin who post to au.forsale (or other au. news groups), assuming it applies to them.
Dave
David de Groot Snr Systems Engineer
Oh no...I see it now!
www.john.smith.ca.la.90210
I've been hearing radio ads promoting the .la domain for months, possibly even a year.
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I just checked: there is still time to grab fa.la.la.la.la and falalalalalala.la
Seriously. In summery: 1) .la has been around for abour 5 years.
2) .la is still laos, they just "sold" it to
3) a private company, and not L.A.
4) Vatican City and Hong Kong already had top level domains.
5) This is linked to DMNews, or "The Online Newspaper of Records for Online Marketers"
This does not mean slashdot does not have many many articles that are interesting, thought-provoking, and true. Many other articles.
...anyone?
I guess it depends how you go about your business. Most porn sites are nothing but con jobs. Take the same pics, slap an annoying tour and signup page on the front, add a few annoying ad banners.. and that's supposedly your site. I count that as spam. Brownie points if I have no spam mail advertising your site though. :)
/.'r mentioned it). They actually seem to have fairly decent content and a low annoyance level.. though not everyone will like their taste in women. :)
If you have your own models and somewhat unique pics and no cheesy sign up and ads then I'll agree that you shouldn't be lumped in with spammers. The one site I can think of off the top of my head that I think is good would be suicidegirls.com (which I found because a
No doubt the spamming method is pretty good for cash flow but as a user it is annoying.
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I really don't think .la for Los Angeles is any different from .to is for Toronto. Certainly, .la did not come first.
.to websites, and I doubt .la will fare any better.
Having said that, despite being a resident of Toronto, I don't know of any Toronto
The Vatican City State, a small area in the middle of Rome has its own tld - .va
crap.o.la
...cough, cough...
I got erik.la a really long time ago, and it was being marketed as "Los Angeles' own domain!" way back then. Something like two years ago. I paid $100 for a year, and I believe I've renewed it at least once, so it's been a while.
# Erik
So in conclusion (from the other comments)
I expect spam any second now from .la. :-(
because LA already has a domain under .US. There is in fact a second one if you prefer a more verbose address. I think there are a few US cities that use the .US TLD in the .. fashion. It seems that this practise is much more common outside the US though.
Just wait until England (en), Wales (cw?), Scotland (??), and Northern Ireland (ul?) get their own.
Every World Cup (soccer) nation should have its own TLD
it won't mean anything when California sinks into
the Pacific. I guess then Laos gets it back...
Wait until we've all switched to IPv6, I bet it will soon be possible to register any UTF16 string as a domain name.
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On June 9th, Los Angeles officially becomes the world's first city to have its own Internet domain.
.la domain owners really want a lot of questions about their connections to the country of Laos? Be sure to remind them where the domain name originates, or if they've been to Vientiane.
Wrong. This is yet another domain belonging to a third world banana republic, who unfortunately have sold out their domain name to speculators.
Who in LA would really want to flash a Laos telephone number? Or a car licence plate? Why buy a third world domain name?
Would
So it's basically just a city in China with its own TLD: ".hk"
"I thought they were the dominant species..."
.sm, it is more or less, just 1 city, and not a whole lot bigger than the vatican.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
has had the .sg TLD for years now.
Of course you don't have moo.la to spare. I registered it 5 minutes ago. Sheesh.
I browse Slashdot at +3, Funny
Some Minnesota state offices are starting to appear as *.mn which really belongs to Mongolia. Minnesota, Mongolia, who'da thunk? And with our tax dollars too!
la.la.la
Uh Oh!
:)
These domains will not be registered:
fuck.la : domain is reserved.
fucked.la : domain is already registered.
I guess I'm fsck'ed out of luck
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Did Hong Kong all of a sudden become a country, or maybe it is a village now. Could have sworn it was a city. Or maybe .hk doesn't really exist and I am just imagining all those websites.
That's 1 domain for every 2 or 3 families. I think that they have rather high expectations -- especially at $50/domain/year.
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does not mean that it is invalid. In the original example, the root DNS servers would have to know what[100% ISO 646 Compliant]
SVM, ERGO MONSTRO.
Is it me or does having a localized TLD counterintuitive to the ethos of the internet community? The internet as a place exists without borders and nationality. The only things that people have to use to discriminate is language and experience. Yet on IRC or USENET I'll occasionally have people who say things like you're only disagreeing with me, or you're only treating me like this because I'm >>insert a minority from where ever they are from here. We need more qualitative domain names, perhaps a process that takes into account nature of the material, organization, and language not location like .la and .us are setting the precident for. Domains like en.news.com.slashdot similar to the USENET naming style. The only place that regional information belongs is for stuff like en.us.gov.irs etc....
Sure it takes away a lot of the marketability/familiarity of internet addresses and complicates systems like email but its just a basis for thought.
-sonic
Great Britain (.gb) and the United Kingdom (.uk) are, for all intents and purposes, synonymous.
The IRA and other paramilitary organisations don't think so, and have spent the well over 30 years killing people because of those beliefs. A great many other people that haven't resorted to violence would also take offense at that statement.
To those that don't know - and I realise that this probably doesn't apply to you Uart - Great Britain comprises of England, Scotland and Wales, whereas the United Kingdom comprises of those three countries and Northern Ireland too.
Too much has happened over the issue of Northern Ireland's sovreignty - too much blood has been shed, too many lives have been lost - for anyone to ever equate Great Britain and United Kingdom.
I agree, it does seem that in everyday speech the two seem to be used as interchangeable terms but that's got more to do with the an acceptable level of lazyness than anything else.
By that I mean it's generally accepted to says "Britain" when you really mean the United Kingdom, or to call someone "British", even if they're Northern Irish (although they might take serious offense depending on their political persuasion), just as it's generally accepted that the term "America" refers to the United States of America specifically, and that "American" refers to one of its citizens, rather than the broader but more accurate definitions of those labels.
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land.la.la ?
checked the whois, and it's just an exchange, 202.456.1414
Seriously, though, what happens to the people and businesses of Laos? I know Toronto businesses already register .to domains from Tonga, but that's not "official", and presumably Tonga still controls the domain registration.
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I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
Congratulations!
This domain will be registered:
crips.la : $50.00/year
These domains will not be registered:
bloods.la : domain is already registered.
I kept going to these Chicago sites looking for something to do on the weekend and all I could ever find was talk about a dam and how to make reall good noodles.
But now I understand where I went wrong. 'ch' doesn't stand for Chicago does it?
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go to the host that is 'selling' the names and you'll see that every keycombo.la you put in is mysteriously "taken".
Unless going to the domain registrar in charge of 'selling' the domain names and requesting to 'buy' a domain name isn't the way to go about it?
Face it, people are stupid, and the internet is the place where they all meet.
In other news, a popular news site has picked up it's own TLD, for more information visit http://slashdot.dot
Thanks. I'll be here all week, folks.
hang brain.
Here is some history from the IANA
>> If you sign up for a domain name, type in some random number for the "Money Order #" method, the domain will appear to be REGISTERED.
Cool, now just grab your dictionary file....
Let's review.
/. for you.
Los Angeles steals^H^H^H^H^Hbuys a TLD == geeky newsworthy.
President Bush falls off a Segway on level ground != geeky newsworthy.
Yep, that's
"Population 1,656"
I agree. Stupid article. Who gives a toss. Is it really THAT significant ?
.ah TLD. Yeah, we could put all assholes in here like spammers, pr0n merchants and any company involved in this whole .la crap !
Its a pity there wasn't a
what are you some kind of french homosexual wiping your ass with silk?
Mais, oui!
Isn't Deutchland where chicks go to get their snatch cleaned out? :)
So how can the claim that "Los Angeles is the world's first and only city to receive its own unique Internet address; .la" possibly avoid being fraudulent?
The founder/owner of Enic.cc is a friend of a friend whom I've met before. A couple of years ago I had heard that Enic had signed the deal with Laos, then I saw this article today, and it made me scratch my head.
.la domains.
Of course, he (Brian Cartmell) is kind of a blowhard, so maybe he was in negotiations and never actually sold
Just curious.....
/.: why the hell am I here?
Maybe LA should separate from the States and be a country.
It's the only country in the world that can honestly list its "average national literacy rate" at a flat freaking 100%.
And, if I'm not mistaken, the only country in the world where every single citizen is bi- or tri-lingual. Like my high-school teachers would say, talk is cheap, learn some more languages.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Pay Attention to the way THE UNITED STATES WORK AND THE Psyche of the general population.
.la they will associate that with Los Angeles instead of Laos.
Word association is an important marketing tool.
I've been watching www.la and I've seen lots of names dissappearing over night.
The bottom line is no one in the USA even thinks about Laos. But they all know LA is Short for Los Angeles. This press is giving www.la just the boost that they need. And once people start going to sites ending in
End of Story.
I bought one today.
Why wait to follow when you can lead!
I've always wondered why Bill has never implemented this. Considering that whenever you type something like 'www.hotwhores.com', all this does is have your browser send a request to a master server, which then tells you the numeric equivalent assigned to that name, which then your browser uses to access that server.
.sex, .food, .app, etc. He could include this in all new versions of every Microsoft app premptively, and then wait till there was a critical mass of installation. This wouldn't take long. The users wouldn't even know. The one day, Bill has a press conference announcing new domains for sale, and he would bypass ICANN with no problem.
Well, considering IE is the most used browser, it would be really easy for Bill to retool it for new domain extensions. He could set up his own master list server for new domains, such as
As a clarification, Belize is somewhat wired and is becoming moreso since the telco lost its monopoly. The marketing of .bz as (business) rather than Belize is something most of the IT users here were against but it was also one of the country's many crooked deals that get rubber stamped before anyone else hears about it.
It'd be interesting to see what people did with TLDs that matched the city's airport codes. re.lax, smi.lax, whatit.lax... Perth would be a bonanza: whis.per, clas.per, hop.per, chop.per, su.per, usur.per, worship.per, stop.per, whim.per, newspa.per, eavesdrop.per, gatekee.per, cam.per, bloo.per and so on (grep per$ /usr/share/dict/words).
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing