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The revolutions in Egypt and Libya helped push CNN.com to a 10 percent traffic gain in February compared with the year-earlier month.
During the first three days of the month, Egypt helped drive the cable news network’s site to a daily average 17 percent higher than that of the prior four weeks. It was Libya’s turn Monday, Feb. 21, when traffic was 55 percent higher than the prior-four-Sunday average and 6 percent higher than the last Monday holiday (Jan. 17).
Total video starts (live and video-on-demand) were up 30 percent compared with the fourth quarter of 2010, and live video starts were up 20 percent.
Feature content also performed well for CNN.com in February, with Tech averaging 1 million daily page views, up 18 percent; versus February 2010 Opinion at 500,000, up 51 percent; Health at 860,000, up 46 percent; and Living at 800,000, up 66 percent. And CNN.com said blog traffic accounted for 97 million page views in February.
Qaddafi Gets Remixed, Racks Up Over 1M Views
As protesters continue to shun and fight against Qaddafi on the ground in Libya, the Libyan dictator is being defamed on the Web as well. Israeli journalist and musician Noy Alooshe has remixed one of Qaddafi’s speeches into an electro hip hop hit. So far it’s got over one million views.
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How YouTube Is Aiding The Libyan Revolution
As the revolution in Libya continues to rage on, with over 1,000 dead and Muhammar Qaddafi refusing to relinquish power, an end to the conflict hardly seems in sight. The good news is that despite Libya’s media blackout and blockage of YouTube and other social sites, Libyans are still managing to circumvent the blackout to get video footage and images of what’s going on in Libya to the rest of the world.
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Libya Cracks Down on Clever .ly Domain Names
Startups with clever .ly domain names such as bit.ly and ad.ly could have their Web addresses pulled out from under them if the government of Libya, which controls the .ly domain space, objects to their content.
Online entrepreneur and consultant Ben Metcalfe wrote Wednesday that his registration of the domain vb.ly, which he co-owned with sex writer Violet Blue as a link shortener for adult-oriented links, was revoked without warning because content on the site did not comply with Libyan Islamic law. The domain was deleted by NIC.ly, the government-owned top level domain registrar around September 23rd.
“Pornography and adult material aren’t allowed under Libyan Law, therefore we removed the domain,” wrote Alaeddin S. ElSharif of NIC.ly according to Metcalfe.
Metcalfe claimed that vb.ly contained no adult content, just links. He expressed his biggest concern over the idea that Libya was exercising editorial control over .ly sites. “I believe the .ly domains should be considered unsafe. Anyone running a business or relying on a website with a one, two or three letter .ly domain should be incredibly cautious,” he warned.
Metcalfe and Blue launched the service in August 2009, and had pre-paid for a second year before it was shut down.
ElSharif wrote that promoting the site as adult oriented, rather than as a generic link shortener such as bit.ly, was enough to violate the country’s decency laws. The full text of ElSharif’s response can be found on Violet Blue’s blog (warning: adult-oriented links).
Metcalfe summed up:
- .ly domains deemed to be in violation of NIC.ly regulation are being deregistered and removed without warning – causing significant inconvenience and damage.
- .ly domains are being deregistered and removed due to reasons that do not correspond to the regulations defined in the official NIC.ly Regulations.
- NIC.ly seems to want to extend their reach beyond the domain itself and regulate the content of websites that use a .ly domain. The concept amounts to censorship and makes .ly domains untenable to be used for user-generated content or url shorteners.
- Libyan Islamic/Sharia Law is being used to consider the validity of domains, which is unclear and obscure in terms of being able to know what is allowed and what isn’t.
- NIC.ly have suddenly decided that <4 letter .ly domains should only be available to local Libyans and this appears to create motivation to recover what premium domains they can to go back into this new local-only pot of domains.
