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Be Careful About Buying .ly Domains

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Many people are familiar with the great URL shortener, bitly. bitly used to be bit.ly, but they’ve recently moved to bitly.com. But why? Many .ly domain owners are finding themselves in an unfortunate predicament. The Libyan domain registry has been siezing domain names from non-Libyan domain owners. Though their motives are unclear, what is clear is that buying .ly domains if you’re not Libyan is not a recommended practice. So, think twice before you buy domains that are registered to certain countries. You never know when they’re going to claim them.

Read more about vb.ly’s experience at Ben Metcalfe’s blog.

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