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by Foomandoonian 4941 days ago
Interesting choice to use a Libyan domain for a service like this.
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How is using a Libyan domain interesting here? Bit.ly is doing it.
Who? Bitly.com?

Perhaps Libya is as reliable as anywhere else in the world - it's all a matter of perspective. Ask The Pirate Bay guys how confident they would be using a .com. Still, the idea of putting a service that offers 'permanence' on a domain so far out of reach seems like a bad idea to me.

The nameservers themselves are here in the us, which will hopefully help. But you have a good point.
"The Libyan governing authority for .ly domains, NIC.ly, explained this week that domains that run afoul of the country's 'morality' laws are being taken offline"

http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/10/libya-beginning-to-p...

I'd say a lot has changed in Libya since 2010...