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.lat

Internet top-level domain for Latin America

.lat

Internet top-level domain for Latin America

FieldValue
name.lat
imageDotLat_logo_(2022).svg
introduced9 January 2015
typeGeoTLD
statusActive
registryXYZ LLC
sponsor
intendeduseThe region of Latin America
actualuse
restrictionsNone
structure[name].lat
document
disputepolicy
website

name=.lat| image=DotLat_logo_(2022).svg| introduced=9 January 2015| type=GeoTLD| status=Active| registry=XYZ LLC| sponsor=| intendeduse=The region of Latin America| actualuse=| restrictions=None| structure=[name].lat| document=| disputepolicy=| website=}}

Initial logo, used until 2022

.lat is an Internet generic top-level domain (gTLD) for Latin American communities and users wherever they may reside.

The eCOM-LAC (Federation of Latin-America and the Caribbean for the Internet and Electronic Commerce) appointed NIC México, manager of the .mx ccTLD, its partner regarding a gTLD such as this. The full proposal was originally supposed to be presented to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) during 2008 but was later to be presented by mid-2011.

There were initial communications that presented the idea of this new top-level domain as a regional one but further news detailed the community orientation of the proposal. Other names that were being considered are .latin and .latino. Similar proposals had already been approved like the Asian gTLD (.asia) and the European Union's ccTLD (.eu).

It was approved in 2015.

In late 2022, the domain was acquired by XYZ LLC, based in Santa Monica, California.

References

References

  1. (July 10, 2007). "Seleccionan a NIC México como socio en la búsqueda de un dominio en Internet para latinos". NIC México.
  2. "New gTLD Program". Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
  3. (27 June 2007). "Proponen la creación del dominio de Internet '.lat'".
  4. (November 15, 2007). "El nuevo dominio en Internet para las comunidades de América Latina y el Caribe, ya tiene nombre". NIC México.
  5. ".lat".
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