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Bit.ly is a good example: .ly was the Libyan dns until the political changes there. Bit.ly is now bitly.com .ly is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) fo

Bit.ly is a good example: .ly was the Libyan dns until the political changes there. Bit.ly is now bitly.com .ly is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya. In 2011, the bit.ly address was set to redirect to bitly.com. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly Therefore relying on using convenient ccTLD suffixes from third word states as part of a western world url might not be a great idea longer term depending on political change and hostile actions.

Rjevski 8y ago
Anyone willing to fix the Wikipedia page with the proper URL (https://bitly.com/ https://bitly.com/)? Looks like it’s been vandalized and a spam URL put in its place, and the mobile editor doesn’t work, asks me for a captcha over and over again..
- glastra 8y ago
  Someone changed it to trim.li (which apparently is another URL shortening service). I've tried changing it to the proper URL, but Wikipedia is preventing me from saving my changes because bitly.com is in their blacklist, as it is a URL shortener. I couldn't help but chuckle.
  - kuon 8y ago
    Someone was able to fix it.
    - cesarb 8y ago
      There's also a whitelist. The specific link was added to the whitelist, then to the article.
jstanley 8y ago
That doesn't really show the point you're trying to make. What I gather from reading the wikipedia article is that they registered bitly.com after the Libyan government seized a .ly domain that was incompatible with their ideology. Nothing to do with the war. And that decision is a bit questionable anyway. It's quite likely that more .com domains have been seized by the US government than .ly domains seized by the Libyan government.
- Already__Taken 8y ago
  > And that decision is a bit questionable anyway. It's quite likely that more .com domains have been seized by the US government than .ly domains seized by the Libyan government. Depends on how you factor in the appeals process going in your favour.
  - olivermarks 8y ago
    I think the 'seizing by Libyan Government' thing is a bit of a red herring. I wrote this on ZDnet way back in 2011 on this topic https://www.zdnet.com/article/dead-ly-urls-and-authoritarian-social-network-tracking/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/dead-ly-urls-and-authoritarian...
  - TheForumTroll 8y ago
    >appeals process You have a bigger chance of justice in an appeal with a .ly than a .com - unless you know the right people at UDRP/ICANN. They make Muammar Gaddafi look like a saint!
geofft 8y ago
I still own a .ly domain, under "Libyan Spider," though the public-facing brand name is now "Register.ly." I also used to own a .so domain, but prices went wildly up at some point during the Somalian Civil War and it wasn't clear I was giving my money to good people, so I let it lapse.

Rjevski 8y ago

Anyone willing to fix the Wikipedia page with the proper URL (https://bitly.com/ https://bitly.com/)? Looks like it’s been vandalized and a spam URL put in its place, and the mobile editor doesn’t work, asks me for a captcha over and over again..

glastra 8y ago
Someone changed it to trim.li (which apparently is another URL shortening service). I've tried changing it to the proper URL, but Wikipedia is preventing me from saving my changes because bitly.com is in their blacklist, as it is a URL shortener. I couldn't help but chuckle.
- kuon 8y ago
  Someone was able to fix it.
  - cesarb 8y ago
    There's also a whitelist. The specific link was added to the whitelist, then to the article.

jstanley 8y ago

That doesn't really show the point you're trying to make. What I gather from reading the wikipedia article is that they registered bitly.com after the Libyan government seized a .ly domain that was incompatible with their ideology. Nothing to do with the war. And that decision is a bit questionable anyway. It's quite likely that more .com domains have been seized by the US government than .ly domains seized by the Libyan government.

Already__Taken 8y ago
> And that decision is a bit questionable anyway. It's quite likely that more .com domains have been seized by the US government than .ly domains seized by the Libyan government. Depends on how you factor in the appeals process going in your favour.
- olivermarks 8y ago
  I think the 'seizing by Libyan Government' thing is a bit of a red herring. I wrote this on ZDnet way back in 2011 on this topic https://www.zdnet.com/article/dead-ly-urls-and-authoritarian-social-network-tracking/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/dead-ly-urls-and-authoritarian...
- TheForumTroll 8y ago
  >appeals process You have a bigger chance of justice in an appeal with a .ly than a .com - unless you know the right people at UDRP/ICANN. They make Muammar Gaddafi look like a saint!

geofft 8y ago

I still own a .ly domain, under "Libyan Spider," though the public-facing brand name is now "Register.ly." I also used to own a .so domain, but prices went wildly up at some point during the Somalian Civil War and it wasn't clear I was giving my money to good people, so I let it lapse.