TechnoLibya

As you all know that www.bit.ly used by twitter to make URL’s shorter is registered in Libya, also other services started using it for the benefit of what’s called domain hacks “Means playing with words no hacking involved”.
Twitter users specially from the United States have been using bit.ly for so long and now they are surprized, they just found out that LY stands for Libya and they don’t want to use it anymore, the reason is because they are supporting Libya, we don’t know what they  means by the word “Support” but it should be the media creating a buzz that will end with bit.ly and LY domains winning the un-started fight.

Domain hacks aren’t exactly new, but with a bumper crop of URL shortening services doing business under two-letter country domains these days, we wanted to know: Where exactly is that? And is the government over there any good?

Wired Magazine

Bit.ly General Manager Andrew Cohen said he’s not concerned about Libya leaving him out to dry. Bit.ly — a company based in New York City, not in Libya — also owns the domains Bitly.com and J.mp; the latter domain is assigned to the Northern Mariana Islands.

Theoretically, if Libya shuts Bit.ly out of its domain, users could simply copy those broken links in tweets and replace the “bit.ly” portion of the link with “j.mp” to get to the source. Google and Facebook show little indication of an immediate backup plan.

Latimes

I’ve warned about the dangers of country code top level domains. Rogers Cadenhead made some interesting observations about Bit.ly, a URL shortening service that just scored $2M in funding.

You see, .ly is the country code for Libya, which has a not-so-great history with the United States. He also points out some of the rules attached to country code domains. I’ve written before about .AE for United Arab Emirates that restricts uses within Muslim law. There’s no poker.ae, for example. The same thing goes for .ly. This presents a problem since the Bit.ly service let’s you forward to just about any web site with any topic. Technically the content isn’t hosted on a .ly domain, but the danger is there that Libya would lay the hammer on this.
No serious business should use a country code domain name other than a major, unrestricted domain without special content rules.

Domain Name Wire

Also lots of Twitter users and bloggers is forming to stand against using LY domains by services like Twitter, and they tweet this hundreds of tweets per minute, well… no one would stop using cell-phones because they don’t know a lot about the  inventor, because cell-phones are useful and so LY domain names.