Originally .ly domains are the country-code domain extensions for Lybia. However, as .ly is a great extension for domain hack for English words, it has also been used internationally. This is a short, brandable extension with the danger of users directly typing in the “name”ly.com domain. As an example, bit.ly is now redirected to bitly.com. There are about 120 sites with .ly extension with better than 1M Alexa rank. The top Alexa .ly sites include url manipulation or url shortener services. The most popular among these are bit.ly, ow.ly url shorteners. Snip.ly and sur.ly services are for modifying the target page of
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