Trouble In Clever Domain Land: Bit.ly And Others Risk Losing Theirs Swift.ly
October 06, 2010 at 08:45 AM EDT
Bit.ly , HootSuite (with its Ow.ly service), Ad.ly and perhaps even Smel.ly could well be at risk of having their domain names sudden.ly taken away by the Libyan government. Ben Metcalfe blogs that his domain name vb.ly was recently seized by NIC.ly (the domain registry and controlling body for the Libyan domain space) because the content of his website, at least in their opinion, was in violation of Libyan Islamic/Sharia Law. The story gets worse.