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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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Won't this be confusing when the state of Louisiana gets its own domain?
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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In related news, Cambodia has changed its name to Nymbodia and applied to ISO for a new digraph.
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New York is gonna be pissed.
What crapo.la. It can be yours for only $50! Too bad I don't have that much moo.la to spare.
Sorry.. That was really bad.
I find it rather sad that this gets posted as news on slashdot, given that slashdot is supposed to be run by geeks. I'd expect this from my local newspaper, but CowboyNeal should know better.
Having said that, what happens when the people of Laos decide they want to use their TLD? I know it's a small mountainous country with very little technology, but I just heard a story yesterday about how the small country of Bhutan just got cable TV (a country where Buddhist monks outnumber soldiers). Point being it'll probbably happen eventually.
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Won't that be nice? I'll be able to readily tell websites in Burnt Scrotum, NM from those in Navel Lint, IA. I'll never know how I got along before.
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Now, "First city with a TLD and drive-through breast augmentation" - that I would believe.
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Due to the fact that you fantasize about things like this, let me guess...
Heh.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/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
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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?
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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
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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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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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.