[krustyburger]

I would assume the LA City one was chosen because it’s still shorter than Los Angeles and it also differentiates from LA County. Much of the LA metropolitan area is within the county limits but not part of the city of LA.

[Spare_account]

The issue with lacity.org is the TLD, which creates confusion amongst the general public.

Legitimate domains for government entities should ALL be on .gov, which should be rigorously controlled.

Then I can tell my family to trust any .gov site, and assume that anything else is fraudulent.

lacity.org undermines this.

[teddyuk]

Tell your family never to trust any site no matter the domain, sites are hacked too easily.

[henvic]

You'd be better off telling your family to distrust .gov sites by default.

[alfonsodev]

Could be also because they have lots of Spanish speakers? La ciudad == the city, Spanglish la city, :)

[garmaine]

I would think it also needs to differentiate from Louisiana.

[tomjakubowski]

yeah, the county website is likewise https://www.lacounty.gov/