I use tinyurl.com to shorten most of my URLs, but I will sometimes use clients that have bit.ly shorten the web addresses. I just learned something new today: the .ly doman names originate in Libya.
Here’s what the Wall Street Journal has to say:
The .ly domain is controlled by Libya’s General Post and Telecommunications Co., whose chairman, Mohammed el-Gadhafi, is the dictator’s eldest son. It says it has rented out more than 10,000 .ly domains, either directly or through resellers.
I knew that .tv belonged to Tuvalu, but I don’t think the U.S. will ever have a military presence on that island nation.
