That’s what I get for not checking in at laexaminer.com for a couple weeks: they’ve up and relaunched. What was once a smart media-centric site (run by West Coast bloglords Layne and Welch) has now become a low-rent SoCal Gawker. Maybe they’ll hit their stride, but I’m not seeing it yet (and I’m a Gawker fan). The tone’s off, and the design’s goofy.
Meanwhile, the old laexaminer.com role appears to have fallen to the new laobserved.com.
Also noted: “Los Angeles is the world’s first and only city to receive its own unique Internet address: .la.” How strange is that? Can Dallas now get .dl or .ds? Or .df for the Metroplex?
Of course the added bonus is that .la works perfectly well for Louisiana web sites. I immediately tried to register www.rayne.la (in homage to my hometown), but the site says it’s already been registered. Doubtful.
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The .la domain is actually the country code TLD (top-level domain) for the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos, which presumably doesn’t have too many people within its own borders registering domains like “rayne.la” and has plenty to spare. I guess it’s a money-raiser for them, like for Tuvalu (.tv), Niue (.nu) and the like.