What's with this trend of using TLDs from places like Libya?
It might give you a cute sounding domain, but when you're using it as part of the product name you're going to be stuck with it for a long time. Remember when `vb.ly` was seized by the Libyan government for pretty much no reason?
Just noticed your addition regarding `vb.ly` and had a quick route around, it seems that they seized it due to it containing content that fell outside of Libyan Islamic/Sharia Law.
I don't think we'll have any issues with this as we're not linking off to any content we don't know about.
It's one of those things that for a b2b service, if I have to even think about it, I will most likely just not sign up and go with an alternative.
What if you make an infographic tomorrow for your blog that has a semi-racy picture? Now I have no idea if that violates Libya's policies. But for me I'd like to have one fewer thing to worry about when I goto bed.
Well i don't think it's the product, it was the content, and in our case, all content is going to be about the product, so i think it's a non-issue in our case, these other url shortening sites are linking to content that could be deemed inappropriate in most countries...
For us it was really just a case of getting an interesting domain with a keyword around what we do, we're all about managing inquiries, and all the nice .com's are taken, it seems to work, and TLD's are becoming less related to countries as the fight for the nice .com's heats up...
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What's with this trend of using TLDs from places like Libya?
It might give you a cute sounding domain, but when you're using it as part of the product name you're going to be stuck with it for a long time. Remember when `vb.ly` was seized by the Libyan government for pretty much no reason?
Just noticed your addition regarding `vb.ly` and had a quick route around, it seems that they seized it due to it containing content that fell outside of Libyan Islamic/Sharia Law.
I don't think we'll have any issues with this as we're not linking off to any content we don't know about.
It's one of those things that for a b2b service, if I have to even think about it, I will most likely just not sign up and go with an alternative.
What if you make an infographic tomorrow for your blog that has a semi-racy picture? Now I have no idea if that violates Libya's policies. But for me I'd like to have one fewer thing to worry about when I goto bed.
Doesn't the thought of your product being governed by "Libyan Islamic/Sharia Law" worry you at all?
Well i don't think it's the product, it was the content, and in our case, all content is going to be about the product, so i think it's a non-issue in our case, these other url shortening sites are linking to content that could be deemed inappropriate in most countries...
For us it was really just a case of getting an interesting domain with a keyword around what we do, we're all about managing inquiries, and all the nice .com's are taken, it seems to work, and TLD's are becoming less related to countries as the fight for the nice .com's heats up...