If Libya falls, so do shortened twitter links?

[Bragi]

If Libya Falls, What Happens to All Those Twitter bit.ly Links?

If you're a serious or even occasional twitterer, you may have wondered what the ".ly" at the end of those shortened bit.ly URLs stand for. Well, the answer is Libya. Like ".uk" for United Kingdom or ".jp" for Japan, .ly is a country code top-level domain that serves as an alternative to "generic" top-level domains such as ".com" or ".net". So now that Libya is further slipping into chaos, an obvious question arises: what happens to all those shortened links?

http://techland.time.com/2011/02/23/if-libya-falls-what-happens-to-all-those-twitter-bit-ly-links

Huh.

- B

[KamaAina]

1. In a similar vein, .tv is Tuvalu and .fm is the Federated States of Micronesia

both very small Pacific island nations.

[David__77]

2. Libya is still there and will continue.

It isn't Yugoslavia, though maybe I will be proven wrong if the West has its way.