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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.
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.
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.
.co.uk, even though I live in Chapel Hill, NC, USA, not Great Britian. They (the registrars) don't seem to enforce many (if any) restrictions on TLD's, so why worry about them?
Why are there too many? Why should there even be a limit on the number of TLD's? If you really think about it, what significance does a TLD really have? It's just one small part of a globally unique identifier...
I mean, yeah, nominally the TLD's mean something... but in practice, whatever geographic or functional distinctions are supposed to exist between the TLD's, are ignored. Take my own website for example... it's registered in
As long as it's unique, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't be able to have a domain like:
phillip.rhodes.loves.elisabeth.shue
or whatever.
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Why do we need more top level domains?
.movie TLD, maybe they could quit polluting .com?
This isn't a new TLD, it's an old one that's been sold.
Personally, the new TLD I'd like to see is "movie", as in www.spider-man.movie or www.matrix.movie or www.lotr.movie. It should be available to movie producers only (not just Hollywood studios, but independent and foreign as well).
Every movie has a web site now, and none of the URLs are consistent at all. If they had a
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$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
And doesn't Singapore have a TLD?
I think it would be better to say that Los Angeles is the first city that is not also its own independent country to have a TLD. Although lots of jokers are going to argue with that part about not being its own country.
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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
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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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?
Several developing countries have sold pretty much their entire second-level domain space to interests in developed countries. These include Laos, Niue, Tokelau, Tonga, and Tuvalu. I'm guessing that those countries have reserved *.com.??, *.net.??, *.edu.??, and *.org.??. Or they could charge non-residents much more than residents, as for example the Bahamas NIC does.
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With IPv6, you could probably assign an IP to every mammal* on the planet. 4 billion * 4 billion * 4 billion, as I recall it being said 4 billion * 4 billion * 4 billion times on Slashdot. *excluding every organism but mammals
"What's Next?" you asked... IPv6 is next.
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.
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.
And even beter, look at the source of the FA: The Online Newspaper of Record for Direct Marketers. They sound like a group we'd all like to help promote their scummy plan to deprive a whole fourth world country of their domain (yes, I know they bought it, so did 18th C slavers when buying their merchandise). So now there's a "yahoo.la", etc, etc. That really fills a need.
fucknut.la, gilligan.la, sip.la, motels.la, hotbodies.la, agent.la, boob.la, dotcom.la, professionals.la, techsupport.la, friends.la, boyfriends.la, transexuals.la, fags.la, classifieds.la, nguyen.la, intercoo.la, main.la, main-street.la, postproductions.la, 90210.la, dirtysluts.la, zil.la, specialfx.la, mediatemple.la, jump.la, hel.la, teens.la, easylistening.la, microsoft.la, milf.la, thisdomainsucks.la, exit.la, wrestling.la, lazoo.la, disney.la, lay.la, phantom.la, standup-comedy.la, kenpo.la, decoro.la, areo.la, wann.la, designs.la, guess.la, limited.la, filmeditor.la, musica.la, allure.la, concerts.la
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