[ga] Re: dotLA

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:29:46PM -0500,
 kidsearch <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 117 lines which said:

> far as I know it's still laos.

No need to speculate. It is written down in the IANA database:

Sponsoring Organization:
    Name: 
    Organization: Lao National Internet Committee (LANIC)
                  Science Technology and Environment Agency
    Address1: Prime Minister's Office
    Address2: P. O. Box 2279
    Address3: 
    City: Vientiane
    State/Province: 
    Country: Laos
    Postal Code: Lao PDR

> this just looks like clever marketing like dot tv being tuvalu not television.

I do not know the extent of involvment from the lao communist
government in that marketing trick but it clearly shows that business
comes before the people's interest :-)