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tomafro
on Feb 19, 2011
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What will happen to Bit.ly links when Gaddafi shut...
LY domains would have to be phenomenally lucrative to make any significant impact in an economy with billions of barrels of oil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Libya
zephjc
on Feb 19, 2011
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http://oil.ly
is already taken, btw, but seems unresponsive.
http://oi.ly
is also taken. Alas.
kmfrk
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I'm sure you'll manage to find other words to describe Gaddafi.
diego
on Feb 19, 2011
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And they aren't. The nic.ly page says about 10k have been registered, meaning they make about $750k/year. The country's GDP is five orders of magnitude larger.
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