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Domain hacks

Many Libyan domains were reserved for English words that end with suffix "ly", such as sil.ly. As the annual fee for .ly domains remains high ($75 a year) there are still plenty of domain names left available on the domain prime market as well as some popular can be bought on the domain secondary market - the result of the domain name speculation.

Three popular URL shortening services are registered in the .ly domain: bit.ly, the default service used by Twitter; ow.ly, a service used by default by the HootSuite Twitter client webservice; and 3.ly. In October 2010, the domain of "sex-positive" URL shortening service vb.ly, which was registered in 2009 by Violet Blue and Ben Metcalfe, was seized by the Libyan web authorities for not being compliant with the law of Libya. A Libya Telecom spokesman stated to Blue: "Pornography and adult material aren't allowed under Libyan Law ... Therefore, we removed the domain."[3]