.la

By Hans Nowak · September 9, 2009 at 1:10 pm · Tags:

When searching for odd domain names, I found this: www.la. That by itself isn’t so odd, except that .la is the domain name extension for Laos, while this site is pretending it stands for “Los Angeles”. “LOS ANGELES is the world’s first city to be awarded its own unique internet address: .LA.“

I suppose a name has whatever meaning people assign to it; it seems a bit misleading though.

2 Comments

  1. ulrik said,

    September 9, 2009 @ 3:59 pm

    Misleading is hardly new on the net! :-)

    City domains have been proposed, like ‘.berlin’ since berlin is all the hype; See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.berlin

  2. Andrew Dalke said,

    September 10, 2009 @ 4:53 am

    You mean “.no” isn’t the domain for New Orleans? Who knew?

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