Los Angeles Gets Own TLD 477
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.
Article (Score:5, Insightful)
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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I agree. This is the second completely retarded article [slashdot.org] I've seen in 6 hours.
They're trying to promote "hooker.la" and "coke.la" as "premium names" for $100. It doesn't get much sleazier than that.
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You're a Brando look-alike?
couldn't agree more. (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:couldn't agree more. (Score:3, Informative)
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 effectiv
Re:couldn't agree more. (Score:4, Informative)
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 [slashdot.org] pcs..
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I do hope that Laos is getting a good deal out of this, but I also hope that Laotians in general will benefit from some of it.
In the meantime, check out the Jhai foundation [jhai.org], they do some pretty good stuff. The chair of the Jhai foundation actually participated as part of a bomber crew during the Vietnam war. Having brought pain to this part of the world, he now wants to make amends by bringing peace and the internet to Loatian villagers. He's also part of Veterans for Peace and a really decent guy.
In any case, it'd be some sweet irony that one of the poorest nations on Earth would get some money for selling TLDs to one of the richiest part of the world...
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The U.S. "war effort" in SE Asia was a misguided and u
I agree (Score:5, Interesting)
Just blows the "Los Angeles is first" argument out of the water doesn't it?
Re:I agree (Score:5, Insightful)
OTOH,
LA is a very reconizable term for Las Angeles, At least it is here in the US.
A few of the ones you listed would work for states here. But if I said I was going to AU to visit a family I would get a retarded stare.
Holy see, Batman! (Score:2, Interesting)
If ICANN had assigned a TLD to a city, THAT would be news.
Two words: Vatican City [vatican.va]. Two letters: va [checkurl.info].
As pointed out by CanSpice [slashdot.org].
Re:Holy see, Batman! (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Holy see, Batman! (Score:3, Insightful)
The vatican doesn't have it's own currency, though it does have a country-specific side on their euro coins, as every euro country has. But since there are so little of them (vatican euro coins), they are almost all in the posession of collectors.
Re:Article (Score:3, Informative)
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*.
Other city TLDs (Score:5, Informative)
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.
A more deserving city does not exist (Score:4, Funny)
A finer city does not exist, and a no city deserves it's own domain more then the great Los Angelas.
Hey hey (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A more deserving city does not exist (Score:2)
On the other hand, that scene you described would make a fine collage.
And .uk = ucky? (Score:2, Informative)
Using this argument, I guess the .uk domain is reserved for ucky food?
LA????? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:LA????? (Score:5, Insightful)
Not at all, because Louisiana already has
Re:LA????? (Score:3, Funny)
Now, Louisiana needs to hijack the TLD from Norway, so that its finest city also has its own TLD!!
Pr0n connection? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pr0n connection? (Score:3, Insightful)
Should they be promoting this? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Should they be promoting this? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Should they be promoting this? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah but
Me so horny! Get it...remember...the war? Nevermind...
Re:Should they be promoting this? (Score:2)
Re:Should they be promoting this? (Score:4, Interesting)
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
A classy neighbourhood (or should that be 'hood)
Sounds lucrative (Score:5, Funny)
Look closer (Score:2, Interesting)
Great.
So much for my Diablo fan page... (Score:2)
Better yet (Score:3, Funny)
oola.la (Score:2, Funny)
Re:oola.la (Score:2)
Oh....I crack myself up :)
Open NIC Open Source TLD's (Score:5, Informative)
Drives me insane. Sorry for the rant.
Re:Open NIC Open Source TLD's (Score:4, Informative)
A valid question, with a valid answer...
1. Starting your own TLD isn't quite like a domain. It is a significant commitment to that TLD and all the domains that might register in it. That is more work than I wanted to do for the sake of ego. In addition there is a ratifacation process before you can reg the TLD (to ensure it will be put to good use of name space and prevent TLD squatting)
2. I have thought of reg'ing a domain in the
Mabey it would be good. Mabey not. There may be technical considerations I am not aware of or other things (non-technical) as well. It was a suggestion.
Note: My earlier reference to the mayor O'Neil being not-so-bright was not based on this matter. Rather on several other interactions I have had with her. Including her reference to the city of Long Beach as being land locked. We have (I think) the second busiest port in california and a request for suggestions to help with the cities budget problems, to which I suggested GNU/Linux, OpenOffice etc, that fell on deaf ears. As well a few financial mini-scandals involving a retirement funds and street lights.
At last we have the fact that supporting OpenNIC is going to irratate ICANN. I don't like tyrants, I thinking that ICANN is looking more and more like that.
Look out... (Score:5, Funny)
bah (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry.. That was really bad.
Why not under .us? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Why not under .us? (Score:5, Interesting)
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 [cpphacker.co.uk] 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.
Re:Why not under .us? (Score:3, Informative)
For the same reason why you have directories on your hard drive. There's no reason in theory why you must have them, but a hierarchical delegation of namespace prevents unfortunate collisions. It allows grouping of files based on software packages - dare I say that the Windows scheme of \Program Files\Vendor Name\Product Name is actually pretty decent, because it has a clear delegation of authority, and only sucks because typing long names with spaces at a command line is u
Most recently registered: (Score:2)
adults.la
That's classic. God bless America...
Soon every city will have its own domain (Score:5, Funny)
woah woah woah (Score:2, Informative)
Re:woah woah woah (Score:2, Informative)
Just like Australia is both a country and a continent.
Re:woah woah woah (Score:2)
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But it is still also a city, so the original poster has a point, even if he is being buttock-clenchingly pedantic! The www.la [www.la] website says:
where from what you're saying they should strictly have said "...first and only city that is not also a country..." :-)
Re:woah woah woah (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Hong Kong (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:woah woah woah (Score:3, Informative)
Hong Kong (.hk), Macau (.mo), both in China. And LA of course DOESN'T have a TLD, .la belongs to Laos, and it could revoke any of these at any time. The .la names just being sold by some cheesy direct marketing company, nothing "official" (in the implied sense of being endorsed by the city of LA) about it.
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Be ahead of the Christmas rush (Score:5, Funny)
What happens when these countries get wired? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What happens when these countries get wired? (Score:2, Interesting)
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 [cob.edu.bs] does.
Re:What happens when these countries get wired? (Score:5, Insightful)
And I won't be shedding any tears over it either. This is similar to the rape of poor countries for raw materials and natural resources that the locals are not developed enough to exploit themselves. Once the country is ready to take over, they usually just nationalize that industry. The foreigners who made a killing (no pun intended) off local labor and land whine, and sometimes the rich country will step in with coercion.
For an example, google for United Fruit and Guatemala. It's that sort of shit that caused 9/11 and continues to cause widespread hatred of America.
Re:What happens when these countries get wired? (Score:3, Insightful)
So it's not rape, but it is still selling something you perosonally don't own in the first place.
Not the first city after all (Score:5, Informative)
Now, "First city with a TLD and drive-through breast augmentation" - that I would believe.
Re:Not the first city after all (Score:2)
Re:Not the first city after all (Score:3, Funny)
What?!? They don't do that in the Vatican? Damn!
Harness the TLDs (Score:2)
I still doubt many people will actually use it, as most of
Your TLD. (Score:5, Funny)
Due to the fact that you fantasize about things like this, let me guess...
Heh.
Re:Your TLD. (Score:2, Informative)
So it would be: ech tea tea pea colon slash slash slash dot dot dot.
Recently Registered (Score:5, Informative)
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.
domains I want are reserved or registered, already (Score:3, Funny)
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 [angelfire.com], either.
This sucks!
Re:domains I want are reserved or registered, alre (Score:3, Funny)
Meh. I'm wondering what all of the hoop.la is about...
Soko
Re:domains I want are reserved or registered, alre (Score:2)
French amateur porn site, maybe: "J'ai votre tour d'Eiffel dans mon pantalon, bébé!"
(I gots yer Eiffel Tower... in my pants, baby!)
Nope, sorry, a basketball site won't work.
I thought about it, but you know what they're like... nothing but
Somebody better come clean... (Score:2)
Definitely not the first city (Score:5, Informative)
What about
WTF!!! (Score:2)
Re:WTF!!! (Score:2)
Toronto: .to (Score:5, Interesting)
I'd say we beat LA to the punch.
.LA is a SCAM. (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Oh you know it's your fav site (Score:2)
Come on, I know you want to you!!
This is old, old news... (Score:2)
I got msgeek-la-ca.us instead. Not sure what I will do with it, but it's mine, all mine.
BTW they were marketing the
Now we can pull a Serpentor (Score:4, Funny)
This I command!
No need for this (Score:2)
A much better TLD for businesses in Los Angeles would be to have something like www.business-name.la.ca.us
Also aren't TLDs like www.la for countries?
Frankly as a resident of Los Angeles, I am insulted by this. In fact I should be getting a discount since I'm in LA!! :)
Also do they even check if you're actually in LA?
I don't know if Mayor Hahn and the city counci
some of the names are already taken... (Score:5, Funny)
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
This is what I see (Score:2)
Now don't get me wrong... I think it kicks ass in theory. Say what you will but L.A. is indeed a large media center, and is just dandy for popular stars of the silver screen to have their own place to promte them selves. Let's face it, your got comercial, then you've got L.A. it self, taking comercial to a whole new level(TM)(TM)(TM)(TM)(R)(C)
But I also see it as mostly looking
Godzilla! (Score:4, Funny)
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
Invalid Domain names (Score:4, Funny)
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)
ATTENTION (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Re:Why do they need top domains? (Score:5, Interesting)
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
Re:Why do they need top domains? (Score:2)
Re:Why not? (Score:5, Funny)
Do you mean Los Angeles or Laos?
Re:I know the wheels are turning already.. (Score:2)
stfu.la
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