Or, Libya could go crazy, decide to fuck with the rest of the world, and have every bit.ly link redirect somewhere that will blow up IE, Firefox, Flash, Quicktime, and Reader.
Out of curiosity, is there any kind of list the risks various TLDs pose to businesses? Something similar to the US State Department travel warning list, for example (but including the US too)?
I ask b/c I recently bought a .co domain for a side project which will depend heavily on the domain similar to bit.ly, and my surface impression is that Columbia is stable enough for TLD risk not to be an issue. But there is the FARC, drug cartels, and probabaly some unknown unknowns as well, and this .ly issue is making me wonder if I should reconsider before irreversibly locking in this domain.
I ask b/c I recently bought a .co domain for a side project which will depend heavily on the domain similar to bit.ly, and my surface impression is that Columbia is stable enough for TLD risk not to be an issue. But there is the FARC, drug cartels, and probabaly some unknown unknowns as well, and this .ly issue is making me wonder if I should reconsider before irreversibly locking in this domain.