.LY ccTLD

Brands&Jingles · Feb 2, 2009

What one thinks about the following:

pure.ly
sure.ly
week.ly
cheap.ly
ideal.ly
quick.ly
...

They do jingle, but when will they become popular?

Matt Mullenweg, a WordPress founder, bought few in 2008.
Source: http://dot-me.of-cour.se/2008/12/15/lately-etc/

:yes:

ftaylor · Feb 2, 2009

Will they become popular? Probably not. There are a plethora of much better extensions, and .ly's only merit seems to be fairly poor names like those ones.

acronym007 · Feb 2, 2009

Do they sound good, yes.

Will they become popular?
I do not think they will become popular unfortunately. It's very tough to make a obscure ccTLD stick. If something is developed and promoted anything is possible.

Good luck man!

katherine · Feb 3, 2009

They are still too expensive ($150/y). Not cheap for domain hacks.
Not to mention that management of the .ly registry has been chaotic in the past. Bad memories for some.

Brands&Jingles · Feb 3, 2009

They have dropped the price by 50% to 75$ per annum and changed the registrar. The guys just want to make money now. They are quite helpful I would say. There are not many jingling domains left, but I know quite few people who got right bids too.

Source: http://dot-me.of-cour.se/2008/12/15/lately-etc/