CentralNic is a domain registry based in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 that currently manages the .la

.la

.la is the Internet country code top-level domain for Laos.- History :The LA Names Corporation, based in Guernsey, has gained the rights to market .la registrations, and they had used the registry services of Afilias and, formerly, the registrar services of DreamHost. However, DreamHost has...

 extension, as well as selling subdomains under us.com, uk.com, eu.com and other suffixes. These subdomains have been relatively popular and sold across a wide range of domain registrars.

History

In 2000, Stephen Dyer founded CentralNic as a successor organisation to NomiNation, a company which he had founded in 1995.