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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.
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
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.
(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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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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Darn, it's already taken.
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 $50! Too bad I don't have that much moo.la to spare.
Sorry.. That was really bad.
Cities should not have TLDs. There's too many of them. At the very least they should be under a .us domain or, even better, under a .ca.us domain.
I find it rather sad that this gets posted as news on slashdot, given that slashdot is supposed to be run by geeks. I'd expect this from my local newspaper, but CowboyNeal should know better.
Having said that, what happens when the people of Laos decide they want to use their TLD? I know it's a small mountainous country with very little technology, but I just heard a story yesterday about how the small country of Bhutan just got cable TV (a country where Buddhist monks outnumber soldiers). Point being it'll probbably happen eventually.
AccountKiller
Won't that be nice? I'll be able to readily tell websites in Burnt Scrotum, NM from those in Navel Lint, IA. I'll never know how I got along before.
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The Holy See (Vatican City) has its own TLD, .va, and it's a city. I think the calls that Los Angeles is the first city with a TLD are a little premature.
register Falalalalalalaaalaaa.la
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What's going to happen when these countries who sell out finally get wired? What will they do for domains?
Now, "First city with a TLD and drive-through breast augmentation" - that I would believe.
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Due to the fact that you fantasize about things like this, let me guess...
Heh.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
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
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
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.
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!
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?
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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
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?
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
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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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Cobra.lalalalalalalalalala!
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Sharpies don't just sniff themselves.
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
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
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.
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'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.
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
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)
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.
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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.
Quite on the contrary. It's ICANN that is contributing to the mess by keeping the top level doimans scarce so that there is a lot of money to make in the domain business. If ICANN would open up the top level domains, then there would be no need to misuse the country TLDs.
Marcel
it won't mean anything when California sinks into
the Pacific. I guess then Laos gets it back...