.lat is an

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generic

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(gTLD) for

Latin American Latin Americans ( es, Latinoamericanos; pt, Latino-americanos; ) are the citizens of Latin American countries (or people with cultural, ancestral or national origins in Latin America). Latin American countries and their diasporas are multi-e ...

communities and users wherever they may reside. NIC México (Manager of the .mx

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) along with eCOM-LAC (Federation of Latin-America and the Caribbean for the Internet and Electronic Commerce) were appointed official sponsors for this campaign. The full proposal was originally supposed to be presented to

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during 2008 but was later to be presented by mid-2011. There were initial communications that presented the idea of this new

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 The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been ...

( .eu). It was approved in 2015. The domain was acquired by XYZ LLC in late 2022.

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