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'Open Season' Declared on LA's Internet Address
June 30, 2003
Cooler than ".com" and hotter than ".us", the re-released ".la" domain is creating a mad scramble for addresses, Baltimore-based BulkRegister said Monday.
The B2B registrar is one of several companies vying for Los Angeles residents and businesses to use them in purchasing their very own .la suffix. This is the first time that a top-level domain has been associated with a particular city.
Open registration for .la began June 9, and since May more than 10,000 .la names have already been pre-registered. But BulkRegister says time is running out. All names that were registered through the previous .la registry have been set to expire on July 18, 2003, regardless of their registration date. On July 11, names from the previous registry that have not been renewed will be placed into a Pending Delete Status pool for 45 days, requiring a fee for retrieval.
BulkRegister CEO Thomas Cunningham estimates the .la domain should ultimately garner as many as 1 million registrations.
"For any business, organization or individual that wants to be identified with Los Angeles, a .la address is the place to be," Cunningham said in a statement.
Other Internet registrars such as Afilias Limited and DreamHost already have contract deals with LA Names to help hawk the sites.
More details at: http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/2229701
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