.la relaunched as Los Angeles' TLD

[nameslave]

After much fuss (http://www.icann.org/cctlds/la/), .la finally relaunches as Los Angeles' TLD (instead of Lao People's Democratic Republic) with DreamHost running the official .la registrar on behalf of LANames Corporation.

Source: http://www.la

I guess they are very clever to market .la to a metropolis which has a population of 10 million citizens instead of a COUNTRY with less than 5.7 million whose per capita GDP is just about $1.6k. And people in the State of Louisiana may also find .la useful.

But chicken.la has already been reserved. ... :chicken:

[allan]

bah....vanity TLDs :D

[Chicken]

Originally posted by nameslave:

But chicken.la has already been reserved. ... :chicken:
Those bastards! Think chicken.com is still available ;) :D :cry:

[Operator]

Originally posted by Chicken:

Those bastards! Think chicken.com is still available ;) :D :cry:

Would you really want to spend $100 on chicken.la ?

;)

[Chicken]

No, I barely could muster the troops to spend $25 on chicken.bz

[interactive]

Hey maybe they'll add .sv (for sierra vista :D). Why is it such a fuss though?

[allan]

Originally posted by interactive:

Hey maybe they'll add .sv (for sierra vista :D). Why is it such a fuss though?

Marketing :).

Actually, it does bring into focus a long-standing feud in DNS between techies and marketers. Originally the 2-letter TLDS, based on ISO 3166 (http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html) were designed to be country codes. Now many of them are being taken over and used for other purposes because they can be better marketed as los angeles or television, etc.

[RandyC]

t.t

so expensive. 50!! a year...

i think ill stick with .US to be a cool person

[allan]

Originally posted by RandyC:
so expensive. 50!! a year...


In the grand scheme of things, if you are operating a business, or this is your only domain then it is not really that expensive. Despite people's complaint's of pricing even the $35 that Netsol asks for domains is not that expensive -- given the benefits a domain provides.

[Chicken]

I think we (or at some of us) are also spoiled into thinking that any domain over $7 is expensive, heh. The only one I bought (.bz) was $25 and I really had to think hard if I wanted it badly.

[nameslave]

Originally posted by allan:

... Despite people's complaint's of pricing even the $35 that Netsol asks for domains is not that expensive -- given the benefits a domain provides.
You remind me of the "good old days" when I paid $100 for each domain with a 2-year mininum registration. I was really down because it had been FREE just a couple of years before. ;)