Number of registered .ly domain names

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Jing.ly names are on the rise, with over 7,000 domains been registered so far.

Libyan Spider Network alone, one of the biggest registrars, has sold near.ly 4,500 .ly domains.

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HTC: quietly brilliant

HTC, a Taiwanese company, the maker of the Google's Nexus One, has launched another product called "YOU" under a new "quietly brilliant" jingle:

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Seriously enhance your career prospects

Durham Business School, that also goes under a jingle "makers of business leaders" promises to seriously enhance your career prospects.

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Naturally (ABB)

Although ABB brand is indisputable in the industry, yet its brand managers realise that it says little to random consumers. Thus, instead of a conventional tag line, the biggest message is embedded in one word: "Naturally".

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All popular .ly

An everyday dictionary of an average Englishman is just about 800 words. Unbelievable, but a fact. When building brands, good marketeers pay attention to what rings bells, focusing main.ly on top 3000 words. Among those 3000 top English words, we found 73 ending with "ly" and tried to analyse how they will map on .ly domain names:

on.ly (85), usual.ly (300), fami.ly (311), real.ly (341), ear.ly (355), probab.ly (427), slow.ly (441), quick.ly (449), final.ly (473), careful.ly (489), sudden.ly (535), f.ly (645), near.ly (651), easi.ly (727), exact.ly (749), especial.ly (782), actual.ly (1,011), simp.ly (1,107), hard.ly (1,194), certain.ly (1,203), Bil.ly (1,204), supp.ly (1,233), direct.ly (1,324), complete.ly (1,351), quiet.ly (1,386), correct.ly (1,390), like.ly (1,420), clear.ly (1,448), close.ly (1,450), friend.ly (1,487), rapid.ly (1,495), general.ly (1,520), immediate.ly (1,528), Ita.ly (1,558), soft.ly (1,632), particular.ly (1,714), most.ly (1,766), love.ly (1,779), gent.ly (1,837), Sal.ly (1,840), frequent.ly (1,847), gradual.ly (1,853), slight.ly (1,882), sure.ly (1,938), dai.ly (1,989), great.ly (2,015), mere.ly (2,026), safe.ly (2,102), entire.ly (2,108), recent.ly (2,116), high.ly (2,149), part.ly (2,165), lone.ly (2,183), Ju.ly (2,208), fair.ly (2,423), eventual.ly (2,470), natural.ly (2,536), perfect.ly (2560), tight.ly (2580), bad.ly (2585), main.ly (2603), firm.ly (2,610), wide.ly (2,655), equal.ly (2,760), ful.ly (2,784), proper.ly (2,791), occasional.ly (2,806), deep.ly (2,869), original.ly (2,872), happi.ly (2,874), constant.ly (2,891), sil.ly (2,958), and possib.ly (2,992)
* - (the numbers in brackets represent popularity in top 3000 English word ranking)

So which are the most popular? Is "sudden.ly" real.ly more popular than "f.ly"? It all depends on how you look on it. According to Google, the most popular search engine, this is how they spread:

quickly (1,370), family (935), July (828), early (643), only (429), Italy (374), finally (340), friendly (299), fully (270), nearly (258), likely (250), eventually (237), closely (226), supply (203), clearly (162), mostly (154), really (129), fly (119), widely (107), directly (97), usually (94), recently (92), daily (92), slightly (89), lovely (84), carefully (82), especially (72), particularly (70), actually (68), probably (63), highly (63), simply (63), rapidly (62), fairly (61), slowly (59), easily (59), perfectly (59), originally (56), generally (53), suddenly (51), immediately (50), naturally (49), completely (48), hardly (47), deeply (47), exactly (40), silly (38), safely (36), lonely (35), certainly (34), frequently (34), partly (33), possibly (30), properly (28), Sally (28), mainly (27), badly (26), gently (23), entirely (22), happily (21), firmly (21), greatly (21), correctly (20), equally (18), Billy (18), constantly (17), quietly (17), merely (16), tightly (16), surely (13), occasionally (13), gradually (12), and softly (7)
* - (the numbers in brackets represent million of Google hits)

And yet, some domain are jingly, like "quick.ly", and some are just domain hacks, e.g., "fami.ly". Obvious.ly, jing.ly names are worth more than hack.ly ones.

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