Most popular weeklys

World's most popular weekly papers (name.ly The Economist, BusinessWeek, and US News) are now all consolidated and quick.ly loaded under a cool.ly web address week.ly/top:

Week.ly screenshot

Week.ly screenshot

Feel free to suggest a paper you are missing.

Friend.ly

friend.ly logo

friend.ly logo

Just like bit.ly on Twitter, another .ly success story is rising up, this time on Facebook.

Friend.ly, with 3+ million users, and near.ly 400k fans, a successful Facebook application, is sure.ly a hit. This domain name was registered just in February 2008 and came live few months later. So 3 million users in just one year - not bad at all.

What does it do? It nice.ly provides you with cool.ly statistics, like this one:

Out of XXXXXX's 439 Facebook friends:
Most common name: Sara (7 friends)
Most common zodiac sign: Cancer (43 friends)
Longest name: XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX
Shortest name: XXXX XX
Female/Male: 57% / 43%
Single/Taken: 43% / 57%
Average age: 25 years old

So next time you log in, give it a try to know your friends better.

Name.ly/Jingles

Two dozen of extreme.ly cool.ly names for your next business may be yours cheap.ly:

http://jingling.names.for.your.next.business.may.be.yours.cheap.ly/buy-now/

Considering the success of bit.ly, which received some $2m of seed money - the above mentioned domains will great.ly serve your needs.

All listed on Name.ly/Jingles

Act quick.ly while they are still available.

Double Coffee – brewed properly

Latvian based Double Coffee offers top quality cafeterias all over the Eastern Europe.
Their jingle, "Double Coffee - brewed properly" is simple yet memorable:

Little can be added to this brand, as the company is featuring itself on the Internet under all possible DoubleCoffee.tlds.

And yet, one can wonder, why would no one utilise the jingle brewed.proper.ly until know.

Domain name proper.ly is still available - so hurry up if you are into proper advertising.

When in Amsterdam – take risks – seriously

Another advertisement campaign with a serious word over the banner: "seriously". Unlike the previous one of British Elephant insurance, Dutch guys at Amsterdam Institute of Finance have better perception of the niche targeting.

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