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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.
Using this argument, I guess the .uk domain is reserved for ucky food?
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.
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.
Now, "First city with a TLD and drive-through breast augmentation" - that I would believe.
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Said Vellmont:
.la TLD.
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.
Said CowboyNeal:
Looks like an Irish firm made a deal with Laos to use the
I think it was fairly clear.. the submitter is the only one who used the word "officially", unless you count the headline -- and headlines are just attention-getters that are rarely factual (and usually fairly effective in their purpose).
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous...
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.
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
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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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?
Not only is this old news, but it's years old. This company has been registering .la TLDs with the Los Angeles spin for *years*.
Ahh, but ICANN didn't assign .va to Vatican City, the IANA did! It's a ccTLD, not a gTLD, and was assigned before ICANN existed (ICANN was created in 1998; the .va TLD was assigned in 1995). And yes, it would have been news, in 1995.
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The Vatican is a country. It may be in the shape of a city, but it is entirely an independant entity and the smallest in the world. It's population is under a thousand, it's official language is latin, it has it's own currency, and a radio station. Don't know why I know all of this.
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I don't know if you remember, but CmdrTaco, has day dreamed out loud about having his own TLD. He wants, ".dot".
So it would be: ech tea tea pea colon slash slash slash dot dot dot.
Having said that, what happens when the people of Laos decide they want to use their TLD?
.la domains for use within the country.. com.la, net.la, mil.la, gov.la, and about 140 more.
Actually, Laos reserved a bunch of
I believe they're getting something in the range of 20% of all revenues from the domains.
Maybe they can use the money to pay for those laonix pcs..
If by "used for Tuvalu citizens" you mean "pull some money into a dirt-poor country so that maybe the economy will grow and everyone can afford running water and electricity someday" -- then yes.
And the brethren went away edified.
When the Internet first started out, it was a project of a USGOV agency. As soon as it became international, there was a recognition of the fact that governments like to exercise this thing called 'sovereignty' over their territories. So, in addition to the 3-letter TLDs that they started out with, they assigned 2-letter country codes so that every country on the planet could feel like it exercised sovereignty its part of the Internet.
Now, here's the tricky part... Since the government of the City (or County for that matter) of Los Angeles has no sovereignty -- no authority other than what is delegated to it by the State of California and the Constitution of the United States of America, there is no reason for there to exist a separate TLD for it.
Unless and until the court decision of Grant v Lee (look it up - it was decided at Appomatox Courthouse) is reversed and Los Angeles secedes from the Union to form a city-state, .la.ca.us is just fine. It spells out exactly the lines of authority.
It positively drives me nuts, for instance, that my state's Department of Revenue is ksrevenue.org instead of revenue.ks.us like it should be, and the main site for state info is accesskansas.org . . . ORG? Please.
[100% ISO 646 Compliant]
SVM, ERGO MONSTRO.
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.
Uh, none of that matters in the slighest. The U.S has power lines to the upper states that are sourced from Canadian power supplies; does that make them part of Canada?
Some Easten European countries use the Euro as their official currency, even though they are not part of the European Union.
"Politically" is all that matters. Vatican City is an internationally recognised country in every way, shape and form possible.