We check all of the new .io and .ly domain registrations daily to see what’s going on, and today we noticed that Github just registered the domain bear.ly:
$ whois bear.ly
Registrant:
GitHub, Inc.
GitHub Hostmaster
88 Colin P Kelly Jr St
San Francisco
CA
US
Zip/Postal code: 94107
Phone: +1.4157354488
hostmaster@github.com
Domain Name: bear.ly
Created: 2015-02-05 15:52:11
Updated: 2015-02-05 15:52:11
Expired: 2017-02-05 15:52:11
Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.p16.dynect.net
ns3.p16.dynect.net
ns4.p16.dynect.net
ns1.p16.dynect.net
Domain Status: ACTIVEWhat could it be for? If you have any ideas, leave it in the comments below.
It’s cool to see awesome tech companies buying .ly domains - it is more confirmation that the “hacker TLDs” (.io and .ly) are the best domains for hackers.