Paris, the capital city of France, applied for .paris to become a top level domain (TLD) in June, 2008.
The TLD for France is .fr.
The Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, began a campaign on behalf of Paris, on December 9th 2009, to support the .paris TLD request.
ICANN will evaluate the request for .Paris to become a TLD in 2010.
To view the full article see: Campaign for Supporting .paris Application Launched http://www.domainnews.com/en/campaign-for-supporting-.paris-application-launched.html
To support the campaign please see: http://www.soutenonspointparis.fr/