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Ask HN: What am I getting myself into with a .LY TLD?

4 points by diminoten ↗ HN
I've got a dumb business idea and for a name I want to use something that ends in "ly". I've registered with register.ly for the domain but now I'm thinking about where my money went and who owns the TLD, and I'm concerned A) that my money went to a terrible regime, and B) that the domain I bought could be subject to Lybian law, which I fear isn't in the best place right now.

Is going with a "LY" company name and domain just too much work or is it probably fine?

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badrabbit
TLDs answer to IANA,if you you fail to comply with their laws you will have at least temporary domain resolution issues. However,I don't think it's a bad idea for brand building so long as you plan on having a different tld in the long term,much like how bit.ly now changed to bitly.com.

As far as your morality question, I wouldn't think refusing to do business with a country is the better stance,you'd be punishing the people for your perception of their governmet. One can very well say they don't want a .com because verisign pays taxes in the US which is an anti-privacy,war mongering regime headed by a xenophobe (One can,I'm not).

keiferski
It’s an unnecessary problem that can easily be avoided. Either change the name or use something like GetProjectly.com or GoProjectly.com
saluki
If you are worried about it go with something else, maybe .app.

maybe hang on to the .ly and use it to redirect to your main domain.