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Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith (www.techradar.com)
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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I wonder how much the city of LA would pay to get La.com back haha.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why a city would want a .com tld? A .gov tld would be far more applicable IMO

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Annoyingly, people are more likely to "blind guess" at .com than .gov, just cause there's more of them

[–] kossa@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Do people even still exist who have the arcane knowledge to type in a domain directly?

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

Hey, that's not arcane knowledge.

Arcane knowledge is memorising the server's IP address.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Aichteeteepee, colon slash slash, doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou dot...

[–] callyral@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

I do, but only for websites I already know, though usually I have those bookmarked.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days 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 3 points 3 days ago

I would guess tourism. It seems like that's what it's currently used for.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago

I think the initial goal of top level domains having any real meaning is dead.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

And that's ignoring the state of LA.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days 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.