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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.
A finer city does not exist, and a no city deserves it's own domain more then the great Los Angelas.
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.
(Score:-1, Wrong)
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.
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Darn, it's already taken.
New York is gonna be pissed.
What crapo.la. It can be yours for only $50! Too bad I don't have that much moo.la to spare.
Sorry.. That was really bad.
Won't that be nice? I'll be able to readily tell websites in Burnt Scrotum, NM from those in Navel Lint, IA. I'll never know how I got along before.
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register Falalalalalalaaalaaa.la
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Due to the fact that you fantasize about things like this, let me guess...
Heh.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
It's a separate country...or maybe even a planet. ;)
Do you mean Los Angeles or Laos?
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
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!
falalalalalalala.la but its already taken.
Damn it.
so is la.la, of course.
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...
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http://do.re.me.fa.so.la/ti/do
Cobra.lalalalalalalalalala!
This I command!
Sharpies don't just sniff themselves.
Now, "First city with a TLD and drive-through breast augmentation" - that I would believe.
What?!? They don't do that in the Vatican? Damn!
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
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
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
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)
In other news, the Pope has been in consultation with the Governor of Virginia about selling the TLD.
Remind me to get crapo.la. The perfect name for the perfect TDL. :P
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I'll go for fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.la -- it'll be just the thing to kick-start my online Xmas biz!
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root.sh would be a cool domain to have. So would vul.va but I don't think the Vatican would like that very much ;)
Go somewhere random
namb.la
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it won't mean anything when California sinks into
the Pacific. I guess then Laos gets it back...
namb.la
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