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I agree that people should have issues with link shorteners, but .ly and .to aren't shady country-code TLDs
by ca98am79 4y ago
I agree that people should have issues with link shorteners, but .ly and .to aren't shady country-code TLDs
- riffic 4y ago.ly is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya .to is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the island kingdom of Tonga. Are you disagreeing with my use of "shady", or something else in particular? .io is a shady ccTLD too, assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory.
- ca98am79 4y agoyeah I was disagreeing with your judgement of .ly and .to as shady. I've worked with people at registrars and the registry for these ccTLDs and they are nice people and I don't think they have done anything shady. I can understand why .io may be considered "shady" because it was assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory but the native people of this region didn't receive anything from .io.
- riffic 4y agono knock on the ccTLD registry itself but Libya's government is in a provisional state. who knows what its future will be and there are many other ccTLDs in a similar place.
- riffic 4y agoI think "shady" is justified. I had to go back and look and yes, when Bitly was founded in 2008, Libya was still ruled by Gaddafi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_Libya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_Libya also followed the link and yes the government has seized one other shortening service which used .ly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly#Alternative_domains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly#Alternative_domains https://www.pcmag.com/archive/libya-seizes-url-shortener-vbly-255360 https://www.pcmag.com/archive/libya-seizes-url-shortener-vbl... We can say it's different now or something but I wouldn't put money behind it.