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==Domain hacks and vanity usage== Many [[Long Island]] organizations and companies have adopted the .li TLD as a [[domain hack]].<ref name="solnik2005">{{Citation |last=Solnik |first=Claude |title=Companies stake out .li territory online |date=2010-05-05 |url=http://libn.com/2010/05/05/companies-stake-out-territory-online-with-li-extension/ |work=Long Island Business News |access-date=2013-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234957/http://libn.com/2010/05/05/companies-stake-out-territory-online-with-li-extension/ |url-status=live |publisher=[[Long Island Business News]] |format=opening snippet |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-access=registration}}</ref> As ''-li'' is a diminutive ending in [[Swiss German]] ([[Standard German]] ''-lein''), many Swiss companies{{which|date=July 2013}} register an additional, or alternative, .li domain for their businesses and services. In [[Russian language|Russian]], ''-li'' is a verbal ending of past tense plural form. That is why some Russian-oriented sites use it as a part of the site name with the verbal stem before the dot. [[Li (surname)|Li]] is also a Romanization of the second most common Chinese surname. Some people with this last name register .li domains for personal use.
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