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| Introduced | 1996 |
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| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | LA Names Corporation |
| Sponsor | Lao National Internet Committee |
| Intended use | Entities connected with  Laos |
| Actual use | Marketed as domain for Los Angeles |
| Registration restrictions | None; some names are reserved as "premium names" at extra cost |
| Structure | Registrations are taken directly at the second level |
| Documents | ICANN .la MoU |
| Dispute policies | UDRP |
| Website | www.la |
| DNSSEC | yes |
.la is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Laos.[1]
Although the .la domain is officially assigned to the country of Laos, it has also been rented out to some businesses in the city of Los Angeles.[2] No official or unofficial association exists between the .la domain and any government in the United States (see .gov and .org).
The .la domain is also used for domain hacks in the French language and the Chinese language. là means "there" in French and in Italian, and in other Romance languages; "啦" (pinyin: la) is a common modal word at the end of a sentence or a phrase in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese.
Mozilla Foundation's URL shortener uses it with the "mzl.la" domain hack.[3]
Tesla Motors uses "ts.la" domain hack as a shortener and a redirect.[4]
Domain names registered with the .la top-level domain start at $50.00 and skyrocket for other generic associations.[citation needed]
The Network information center of .la is oriented to pages based in Los Angeles.[5]
Intel Latin America uses intel.la.
The Digital Public Library of America uses dp.la.
History[edit]
The LA Names Corporation, based in Guernsey, has gained the rights to market .la registrations, and they had used the registry services of Afilias and, formerly, the registrar services of DreamHost.[citation needed] However, DreamHost has discontinued registrar services as of May 2006. LA Names and CentralNic, Ltd. completed the transfer of the .la domain name to the CentralNic system in 2007.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ National Portal of Lao PDR
- ^ Maierbrugger, Arno (10 July 2013). "Laos rents '.la' Internet domain to Los Angeles businesses". Inside Investor. Archived from the original on 2013-07-14. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ "880974 – adding a tinyurl.com link is blocked as spam at wiki.mozilla.org". mozilla.org.
- ^ "Tesla Motors - Premium Electric Vehicles". ts.la.
- ^ http://www.nic.la redirects to https://www.la/. Page https://www.la/e/about uses the slogan "The Internet Address For Los Angeles".
- ^ "Los Angeles Has Its Own Domain Name". Marketwire.
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