The city of LA should not get a .com name. They might have a case that la.com should not have a .com either (they look like a tourist .org though if they are not acting like a .org they are scammers) - but this would be a very hard sell in court. The city of LA should have a .gov (which won't allow them) or .us (which is not organized well - something they should be mad about and pressure to get fixed) name.
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Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoI wonder how much the city of LA would pay to get La.com back haha.
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ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I think the initial goal of top level domains having any real meaning is dead.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And that’s ignoring the state of LA.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What sucks is that a lot of commercial companies in L.A. use the .la domain, which is blocked by my company’s proxy.
demonsword@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why a city would want a .com tld? A .gov tld would be far more applicable IMO
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Annoyingly, people are more likely to “blind guess” at .com than .gov, just cause there’s more of them
kossa@feddit.org 2 months ago
Do people even still exist who have the arcane knowledge to type in a domain directly?
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Hey, that’s not arcane knowledge.
Arcane knowledge is memorising the server’s IP address.
Soggy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Aichteeteepee, colon slash slash, doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou dot…
callyral@pawb.social 2 months ago
I do, but only for websites I already know, though usually I have those bookmarked.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Some folks just when high on weed and/or bored will try typing random URLs to see if they’re anything
(I was one of those back when I was a teen)
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I would guess tourism. It seems like that’s what it’s currently used for.