.LA is the short form of Los Angeles, formerly the national top level domain distributed to Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic by ICANN and firstly launched to market in 2004. However, due to undevelopment of the country's network industry, it was bought by a company in Los Angeles later and still unter the supervision of ICANN.

The advantages of LA domain:

Now in China, there is a increasing market for .LA, because it is the very few domains which sound the same as Chinese Pingyin, and it sounds just like Chinese Character. Moreover, many webmasters and inverstors are getting more and more intersted in it because the newly opened market is full of resource and believed to have a profitable prospect.