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The case of vb.ly

Violet Blue has lost its vb.ly domain for the reason. Actually for few of them. Although they now cry about the domain name taken from them, they missed it couple of times. First of all, Violet Blue is an adult site. It is clear to every .ly player that .ly registry does not allow any […]

DriveSafe.ly

DriveSafe.ly reads your text messages and emails to you while you drive, so you can concentrate on the road. DriveSafe.ly can also respond, so you aren’t tempted to reach for that phone.

Swipely

Have you heard of Swipely? Not that we adwise using it 😉 It works well on both swipe.ly and swipely.com. The video probably tells more than 1000 words:

Alexa top one million

Have you ever wondered how many “ly” domain names are their in Alexa top one million? At the moment 3379, slightly more than a third of a percent. Many of them are already deploying jingly and short .ly versions. Many are missing out. In the full list below we found 160 “weekly” phrases, and yet, […]

Monir.ly

By now, we have seen many interesting and jingly .ly sites, many URL shorteners too (bit.ly of course, followed by adf.ly, ht.ly, ow.ly, 3.ly, … you name it). So far so good, but this blog never properly discussed the local market. And it is high time for it. Monir Elhussein opened monir.ly in May this […]