Walt Mossberg – For iPad and Mobile Devices, a “Port” out of the Norm
Google (GOOG) is betting on Greenland, Facebook on Montenegro and Bit.ly on Libya.
The rise of URL shorteners–those brief links that are thriving on space-constrained networks such as Twitter–has in turn created a sort of gold rush to snatch up the tiniest and cleverest domains.
Because dot-com registrations are over-saturated, the boon is happening in domains based in other countries.
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