Talk:.la

.la Takings by Los Angeles?
That's not right. All countries should have their own independant ccTLD. Having one city, over take a country's ccTLD is absurd.
 * According to the article, its intended use was for Laos-specific websites, however, the company administering the .la domain also allows other websites to register a .la domain. Since "LA" is a common abbreviation for Los Angeles, some Los Angeles-based websites are using a .la URL. Having said that, it doesn't seem to have really caught on. So Los Angeles is not "taking over" the .la domain at all - it still means, originally, a website connected to Laos. Just certain websites are using it for a different reason (see domain hack). &mdash; QuantumEleven | (talk) 16:32, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is not a forum. GreenJoe 20:01, 4 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I'd wanted to register for.um but it seems the US Minor Outlying Islands aren't taking registrations. There's no one there? --66.102.80.239 06:35, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

.LA is now for Los Angeles Business
.LA administration was handed over to CentralNic. .LA admin is now promoting it as Los Angeles only domain.

Please check the authorized admin website.

https://www.la/about

They have trademarked the phrase: ".LA - Getting Los Angeles Business Online"

(Mithunbafna (talk) 06:11, 20 July 2012 (UTC))

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mithunbafna (talk • contribs) 21:10, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Laos launches campaign to reclaim .LA from Los Angeles
Laos has launched a campaign to claim back association of .LA domain name from Los Angeles back to its country.

Source: http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=218183 (Mithunbafna (talk) 06:12, 20 July 2012 (UTC))


 * That article doesn't seem to mention los angeles taking control over the domain, it talkes about Laos taking control of it. It was also from over a year ago. Please provide independent reliable references for your claims, as I can not find any on google. Also see the descussion in the section above ".la Takings by Los Angeles?" where QuantumEleven states "So Los Angeles is not "taking over" the .la domain at all - it still means, originally, a website connected to Laos."
 * If you want to make a separate article for the domains use in Los Angeles, then that's fine, but this article should remain about laos, as the country is still using the domain.
 * I am not going to get into an edit war over this, but I will take it to dispute resolution if I have to.Sarahj2107 (talk) 21:56, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

CEO of CentralNic clearly mentions .LA for Los Angeles in an interview. .LA is owned by CentralNic Source: https://www.centralnic.com/company/news/2012/a-different-take-on-new-tlds-from-a-company-with-a-big-footprint-in-both-dotcom-and-new-tld-camps

DNJournal: As CEO of a company that came up with its an innovative way to expand name space, we were wondering how you felt about the introduction of an unlimited number of new TLDs and how you think those will impact CentralNic's business of selling sub-domains of premium .coms. Do you think the new alternatives will be more attractive than the .com options CentralNic currently offers or do you think the long-established .com extension will insulate you from that new competition?

Ben Crawford: You're right that CentralNic has been an innovator for sixteen years. Starting from an initial insight that domains ending .uk.com are a viable alternative to domains ending .co.uk, we have built a portfolio of 27 geographic domain extensions, such as .US.COM, .EU.COM for Europe and .CN.COM for China, as well as .LA for Los Angeles. We expect our domain extensions to stand their ground against the new TLDs. In many cases our extensions are simply better than the proposed alternatives. For example, I believe that .com.de and .de.com are better extensions for Germany than any of the proposed German province or city name TLDs, because they cover the whole country and they combine the worlds' two most successful domain extensions. And obviously when TLDs like .nyc, .miami and .paris begin to educate consumers about city TLDs, our .LA domain will benefit enormously (as no-one applied for any Los Angeles-related new TLDs).

(Mithunbafna (talk) 06:12, 20 July 2012 (UTC))

the toki pona community's use of .la
the toki pona community uses the .la domain for sites like pona.la, mun.la, linku.la etc because la is a word in toki pona

i feel like this should be included in the article in some way

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