LA Names Officially Announces a Unique Global First for Los Angeles.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2003 From Monday 9th June 2003, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. has a new honor to celebrate - becoming the world's first city to have its own unique internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. .la Offering the same functionality as a .com address and sanctioned by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers See ICANN. (body, networking) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - (ICANN) The non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system (ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number ), the internet's de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. governing body Noun 1. governing body - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he , .la addresses will be available to all Los Angeles residents and businesses. The official website www.la opened for testing and pre-registration in early May 2003 and already, with zero publicity, over 10,000 names have been pre-registered, including many well known brand names such as www.yahoo.la and www.rolex.la and in this City of Stars many personal names like www.madonna.la and www.arnie.la. Independent forecasts suggest up to 1 million .la names will be registered over the coming years, with similar penetration levels of countries such as Germany (.de) and the United Kingdom (.uk) The Guernsey-based LA Names Corporation (LA Names) has recently assumed responsibility as the operator of .la in a long-term deal with LANIC LANIC Latin American Network Information Center LANIC Local Area Network Interface Card LANIC Lan Interface Card , a department of the Government of the Lao PDR, who were originally assigned the name by ICANN. Gavin Aldred, President of LA Names, said "There is still a massive demand for good web-addresses, and Los Angeles is probably the most internet-savvy city on earth. For businesses operating in LA a .la address is much more relevant than a .com address because it tells a potential customer not just who you are but where you are, enabling them to find you, visit you, and buy from you. For individual citizens it's more a matter of pride to be part of this extraordinary community." In order to provide fast, reliable and secure infrastructure and technology, LA Names is working with Dublin-based global domain name registry A domain name registry, also called Network Information Centre (NIC), is part of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet which converts domain names to IP addresses. services provider Afilias Limited, who also provide back-end registry support for .org, .INFO and a number of other ccTLDs. In addition, Afilias enables the entire ICANN distribution channel to have access to .LA registration opportunities. LA Names has partnered with DreamHost, an LA-based ICANN-accredited registrar to operate the www.la website. The site is designed to promote .la in Los Angeles and establish a premium-pricing model for .la names. LA Names representatives will be attending the up-coming ICANN conference in Montreal in order to meet with registrars. Further details can be obtained from info@lanames.la or by visiting www.la |
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