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Internet country-code top level domain for Laos the .la file extension Libtool .la DotLa domain logo.svg 14 May 1996 Country code top-level domain Active LA Names Corporation Lao National Internet Committee Entities connected with Laos Marketed as a domain for Los Angeles; popular in Latin America and Laos; used by Toki Pona websites; sometimes used for domain hacks. None; some names are reserved as "premium names" at extra cost Registrations are taken directly at the second level ICANN .la MoUPolicies UDRP https://lanic.gov.la/ Yes .la is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Laos.http://www.laopdr.gov.la/ National Portal of Lao PDR 2013-07-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20131022074225/http://www.laopdr.gov.la/ 2013-10-22 dead https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/la.html IANA — .la Domain Delegation Data Although the .la domain is officially assigned to the country of Laos, subdomains have been delegated to some organizations outside Laos. History 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.December 2013 However, DreamHost has discontinued .la registrar services 2006 May y. LA Names and CentralNic, Ltd. completed the transfer of the .la domain name to the CentralNic system in 2007.http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/los-angeles-has-its-own-domain-name-722255.htm Los Angeles Has Its Own Domain Name Marketwire 2014-03-19 2015-01-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20150109070446/http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/los-angeles-has-its-own-domain-name-722255.htm dead Cabel Sasser of Panic created "Poopla" (xn--ls8h.la), "The World's First Emoji Domain" on April 13, 2011.The World's First Emoji Domain https://panic.com/blog/the-worlds-first-emoji-domain/ Panic Blog Panic 31 August 2017 A company based in Hong Kong by the name of Sterling Holdings originally purchased the TLD from Laos, and marketed it towards users in Louisiana and Los Angeles.November 2025 Popular use The domain is used by organizations in the state of Louisiana (whose postal abbreviation is LA) and the city of Los Angeles.http://investvine.com/laos-sells-la-domain-to-los-angeles-businesses/ Laos rents '.la' Internet domain to Los Angeles businesses Arno Maierbrugger Inside Investor 10 July 2013 11 July 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130914043412/http://investvine.com/laos-sells-la-domain-to-los-angeles-businesses/ 2013-09-14 live No official or unofficial association exists between the .la domain and any government in the United States. Technically, Louisiana and Los Angeles are assigned .la.us and .la.ca.us, respectively, under the .us locality namespace. The .la ccTLD also sees limited use for businesses in Latin America, such as Intel's site for the region. 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" (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.https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=880974#c1 880974 – adding a tinyurl.com link is blocked as spam at wiki.mozilla.org mozilla.org Tesla Motors uses "ts.la" domain hack as a shortener and a redirect.http://ts.la/ Tesla Motors - Premium Electric Vehicles ts.la 2014-11-05 2021-01-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20210124132657/https://www.ts.la/ dead Digikala, an e-commerce startup in Iran and the Middle East uses the "dgka.la" domain hack as a shortener. The Network information center of .la is oriented to pages based in Los Angeles.http://www.nic.la redirects to https://www.la/. Page https://www.la/e/about uses the slogan "The Internet Address For Los Angeles". The Digital Public Library of America uses dp.la. In Toki Pona, the word tok la is used as a context marker. Therefore, many popular Toki Pona websites use the ".la" domain, such as sona pona, an English wiki about Toki Pona, and lipu Linku, a Toki Pona dictionary.Main Page https://sona.pona.la/wiki/Main_Page April 5, 2025 sona.pona.lalipu Linku https://linku.la/ April 5, 2025 linku.la Lao language domain 2019 6 10 yes .ລາວ Lao National Internet Center (LANIC) Entities connected with which use the Lao script xn--q7ce6a In 2008 a preliminary application was made to open the internationalized top level domain lo .ລາວ (the name of Laos in the Lao language).IDN ccTLD Form of Interest | Laos In 2019 this top level domain was approved. Web sites will come at a later stage. It is intended for usage with domain names in Lao script. References External links IANA .la whois information Category:Communications in Laos Category:Country code top-level domains Category:Internet properties established in 1996 sv:Toppdomän#L