This is a good idea in theory, but not if in form of a company. This would require something like a consortium where Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, ... and a few more federates to create a service paying for the bill and with the intention to take it up for the future as long as possible.
Plus there's already a service that does the same thing, is free, and is heavily relied upon, WebCite.
Show HN: A Url Permanence Service
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#22Infinite loops: http://purl.ly/tinyurl.com/qui3na purly -> tinyurl -> baconized purly
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#23Is having a Libya based domain name really the best way to ensure permanent URL structure?
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#25Interesting choice to use a Libyan domain for a service like this.
How is using a Libyan domain interesting here? Bit.ly is doing it.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/10/libya-beginning-to-p...
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#26eg make a purl for http://www.reddit.com/top/?sort=top&t=hour which generates http://purl.ly/www.reddit.com/top/?sort=top&t=hour which gives a 404
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is using a Libyan domain interesting here? Bit.ly is doing it.
"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...
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#29The original idea was just to provide a consistent link which would fallback to a cache when necessary and back to the original content for reddit/hn type traffic. Then it made sense to do some paywall busting and readability functionality on top of it and those features overshadowed the original concerns.
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#30Sounds cool, but only as long as purl.ly itself is up. We’ve seen what happens with single point of failure services like this when twitter’s link shortener t.co was down.