.la
 | |
| Introduced | 14 May 1996 |
|---|---|
| TLDtype | 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 a domain forLos Angeles;popular inLatin AmericaandLaos;sometimes used for domain hacks. |
| 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 Policies |
| Dispute policies | UDRP |
| DNSSEC | yes |
| Registry website | lanic |
.lais theInternetcountry code top-level domain(ccTLD) forLaos.[1][2]
Although the.la domain is officially assigned to the country of Laos, subdomains have been delegated to some organizations outside Laos.
History[edit]
The LA Names Corporation, based inGuernsey,has gained the rights to market.la registrations, and they had used the registry services ofAfiliasand, formerly, the registrar services ofDreamHost.[citation needed]However, DreamHost has discontinued.la registrar services as of May 2006[update].LA Names and CentralNic, Ltd. completed the transfer of the.la domain name to theCentralNicsystem in 2007.[3]Cabel Sasser ofPaniccreated "Poopla" (xn--ls8h.la), "The World's FirstEmoji Domain"on April 13, 2011.[4]A company based in of Hong Kong by the name of Sterling Holdings originally purchased theTLDfrom Laos, and marketed it towards users in Louisiana and Los Angeles.
Popular use[edit]
The domain is used by organizations in the state ofLouisiana(whosepostal abbreviationisLA) and the city ofLos Angeles.[5]No official or unofficial association exists between the.la domain and any government in the United States (see.govand.org). It also sees limited use for businesses inLatin America,such asIntel's site for the region.
The.la domain is also used fordomain hacksin theFrench languageand theChinese language.làmeans "there" in French and in Italian, and in otherRomance languages;"Lạp"(pinyin:la) is a commonmodal wordat the end of a sentence or a phrase inMandarin ChineseandCantonese.
Mozilla Foundation'sURL shorteneruses it with the "mzl.la" domain hack.[6]
Tesla Motorsuses "ts.la" domain hack as a shortener and aredirect.[7]
Digikala,an e-commerce startup inIranand the Middle East uses the "dgka.la" domain hack as a shortener.
TheNetwork information centerof.la is oriented to pages based in Los Angeles.[8]
TheDigital Public Library of Americauses dp.la.
Lao language domain[edit]
| Sponsor | Lao National Internet Center (LANIC) |
|---|---|
| Intended use | Entities connected with Laoswhich use theLao script |
In 2008 a preliminary application was made to open theinternationalized top level domain.ລາວ(the name of Laos in theLao language).[9]In 2019 this top level domain was approved. Web sites will come at a later stage. It is intended for usage withdomain namesinLao script.
References[edit]
- ^"National Portal of Lao PDR".Archived fromthe originalon 2013-10-22.Retrieved2013-07-04.
- ^"IANA —.la Domain Delegation Data".
- ^"Los Angeles Has Its Own Domain Name".Marketwire.
- ^"The World's First Emoji Domain".Panic Blog.Panic.Retrieved31 August2017.
- ^Maierbrugger, Arno (10 July 2013)."Laos rents '.la' Internet domain to Los Angeles businesses".Inside Investor.Archivedfrom the original on 2013-09-14.Retrieved11 July2013.
- ^"880974 – adding a tinyurl link is blocked as spam at wiki.mozilla.org".mozilla.org.
- ^"Tesla Motors - Premium Electric Vehicles".ts.la.
- ^http:// nic.laredirects tohttps:// la/.Pagehttps:// la/e/aboutuses the slogan "The Internet Address For Los Angeles".
- ^IDN ccTLD Form of Interest | Laos