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February 22, 2011 - 3:36 P.M.
Supporting Gadhafi's Libya with a .ly domain: Bad idea?
- TAGS:DNS, domain name, domain name seizures, enterprise, Insider Content, Libya
- IT TOPICS:Government & Regulation, Internet, Networking, Security, Web Apps
By Richi Jennings. February 22, 2011.
With the turmoil in Libya, attention has again turned to the Libyan Internet names registry, its registrars, and our reliance on them. (In case you didn't know, .ly is the country-wide top-level domain for Libya.) The situation has re-ignited questions about widely-used domains, such as bit.ly owl.ly, and 3.ly. Let's see what's what, in The Long View...
As I see it, there are two issues here: service stability and regime support.
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