Numerous individuals are into utilizing .com domains and I understand this. If you desire to show rapidly in the Google’s results then you should apply .com. However, in a French website, that would indicate for you to utilize .Fr domain and that would assist you in ranking rapidly in Google. This is the same when you choose .cn for China. In the instance of .la, is this a country code domain? I am just concerned in discovering what this really is? Could this be the country internet code of Laos? Can anybody inform me of what this is? I am simply pondering on what this really is. I am very much thankful for your responses.

.la (Laos) is marketed as suggesting Los Angeles or Latin America.

A number of the world's smallest countries have licensed their TLDs for worldwide commercial use. For example, Tuvalu and the Federated States of Micronesia, small island-states in the Pacific, have partnered with VeriSign and FSM Telecommunications respectively, to sell domain names using the tv and fm TLDs to television and radio stations.



 .ac (Ascension Island) is sometimes used to stand for "Access Connection" or "Access Card". It is often used by Universities to stand for "Academic".
 .ad (Andorra) has recently been increasingly used by advertising agencies or classified advertising.
 .ag (Antigua and Barbuda) is sometimes used for agricultural sites. In Germany and German-speaking countries, AG (short for Aktiengesellschaft) is appended to the name of a stock-based company, similar to Inc. in USA.
 .am (Armenia) is often used for AM radio stations, or for domain hacks (such as .i.am).
 .as (American Samoa) In Estonia, Denmark and Norway, AS is appended to the name of a stock-based company, similar to Inc. in USA. In Czech Republic, the joint stock corporation a.s. abbreviation stands for Akciová spolecnost.
 .at (Austria) is used for English words ending in at (e.at).
 .be (Belgium) is sometimes used for the literal term "be" and the Swiss Canton of Bern. It is also used in some download sites as the end of the word "tube" such asdownloadyoutu.be, a site for the downloading of youtube videos.
 .by (Belarus) is sometimes used in Germany, as "BY" is the official abbreviation of the state Bayern.
 .ca (Canada) is occasionally used to create domain hacks like histori.ca, the web domain of The Historica Dominion Institute. This type of use is limited by the .ca domain's Canadian residence requirements.
 .cc (Cocos (Keeling) Islands) is used for a wide variety of sites such as community colleges, especially before such institutions were allowed to use .edu.
 .cd (Democratic Republic of Congo) is used for CD merchants and file sharing sites.
 .ch (Switzerland) is used for a number of church websites.[8]
 .ck (Cook Islands) was notably abused in Chris Morris's Nathan Barley by preceding it with ".co" in order to spell out the word "cock" (.co.ck as in trashbat.co.ck).
 .co (Colombia) is marketed as commercial, corporation, or company.[6]
 .dj (Djibouti) is used for CD merchants and disc jockeys.
 .fm (the Federated States of Micronesia) is often used for FM radio stations (and even non-FM stations, such as internet radio stations).
 .gg (Guernsey) is often used by the gaming and gambling industry, particularly in relation to horse racing and online poker.
 .im (the Isle of Man) is often used by instant messaging programs and services.
 .in (India) is widely used in the internet industry.
 .io (the British Indian Ocean Territory). Notable examples are online storage site Drop.io and task list site Done.io.
 .is (Iceland) is used as the English verb, "to be" in conjunction with a directory name suffix to complete a linguistically correct sentence (for example, "<noun>.is/<verb>" or "<noun>.is/<adjective>).
 .ir (Iran) is used in domain hacks (e.g. .has.ir).
 .it (Italy) is used in domain hacks (e.g. .has.it).
 .je (Jersey) is often used as a diminutive in Dutch (e.g. "huis.je"), as "your" ("zoek.je" = "search your"), or as "I" in French (e.g. "moi.je").
 .la (Laos) is marketed as suggesting Los Angeles or Latin America.
 .li (Liechtenstein) is marketed as meaning Long Island.
 .lv (Latvia) is also used to abbreviate Las Vegas or less frequently, love.
 .ly (Libya) is also used for words ending with suffix "ly".
 .md (Moldova) is marketed to the medical industry (as in "medical domain"[citation needed] or "medical doctor").
 .me (Montenegro) was opened to trademark owners on May 6, 2008 and individuals on June 6, 2008.[9]
 .mn (Mongolia) is used to abbreviate Minnesota.
 .ms (Montserrat) is also used by Microsoft for such projects as popfly.ms.
 .mu (Mauritius) is used within the music industry.
 .ni (Nicaragua) is occasionally adopted by companies from Northern Ireland, particularly to distinguish from the more usual .uk within all parts of the United Kingdom.
 .nu (Niue) is marketed as resembling "new" in English and "now" in Scandinavian/Dutch. Also means "nude" in French and Portuguese.
 .pr (Puerto Rico) can be used in the meaning of "Public Relations".
 .rs (Serbia) is marketed in English words ending with the letters "rs" such as www.blogge.rs.
 .sc (Seychelles) is often used as .Source .
 .sh (Saint Helena) is also sometimes used for entities connected to the German Bundesland of Schleswig-Holstein or the Swiss Canton of Schaffhausen, or to Shanghai or Shenzen in China.
 .si (Slovenia) is also used by Hispanic sites as "yes" ("sí"). Mexican mayor candidate Jorge Arana, for example, had his web site registered as http://www.jorgearana.si (i.e. "Jorge Arana, sí", meaning "Jorge Arana, yes").
 .sr (Suriname) is marketed in the USA as being for "seniors".[citation needed]
 .st (São Tomé and Príncipe) is being marketed worldwide as an abbreviation for various things including "street".
 .tk (Tokelau) was bought by someone and given away at dot.tk.[citation needed]
 .tm (Turkmenistan) can be used as "trade mark".
 .to (Tonga) is often used as the English word "to", like "go.to"; also is marketed as the TLD for Toronto and for the Italian city and province of Turin (Torino in Italian).
 .tv (Tuvalu) is used for the television/entertainment industry purposes. It is also used for local businesses in the province of Treviso (Italy).
 .vc (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) is sometimes used to abbreviate "Vacation Club" or "Virtual Casino".
 .vg (British Virgin Islands) is sometimes used to abbreviate Video games.
 .vu (Vanuatu) means "seen" in French as well as an abbreviation for the English language word "view".
 .ws (Samoa, earlier Western Samoa) is marketed as .Website .