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Interesting choice to use a Libyan domain for a service like this.
How is using a Libyan domain interesting here? Bit.ly is doing it.
Perhaps Libya is as reliable as anywhere else in the world - it's all a matter of perspective. Ask The Pirate Bay guys how confident they would be using a .com. Still, the idea of putting a service that offers 'permanence' on a domain so far out of reach seems like a bad idea to me.
Looks like not many people are actually using it: http://purl.ly/purl/index
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.
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How is using a Libyan domain interesting here? Bit.ly is doing it.
Who? Bitly.com? Perhaps Libya is as reliable as anywhere else in the world - it's all a matter of perspective. Ask The Pirate Bay guys how confident they would be using a .com. Still, the idea of putting a service that offers 'permanence' on a domain so far out of reach seems like a bad idea to me.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_Uniform_Resource_Loc... also, this is a "protocol"
purly -> tinyurl -> baconized purly
It might be better packaged as something blogs and forums can automagically implement for a fee instead of trying to make money off ads.