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A URL Lengthener

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Re: A URL Lengthener

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Lol. I clicked this on my (managed) work laptop, and immediately got a Compliance warning popup. I don't know what I expected...

Same. "Your organization's policy prohibits access to websites categorized as Tasteless & Offensive.". How rude!

Sophos managed macs

Re: A URL Lengthener

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post #117

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I clicked on your link, half expecting to get rick-rolled, and was pleasantly surprised to find myself back on this same page.... but also kinda disappointed. :) +1 for avoiding the temptation.

I miss getting Rick Rolled.

These days it's all about personalised, targeted rolling. You have to find out what song your friend hates the most (say, "Africa" by Toto) and try to trick them into listening to ever-more-horrible cover versions of it.

At least, that seems to be the thing in my friend group.

Re: A URL Lengthener

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The A record was never in the root zone. The root zone has an NS record for ai TLD which delegates authority to ai nameservers. You can try `dig @a.root-servers.net ai NS` to get the nameserver `a.lactld.org.` which is authoritative for ai. You can now try `dig @a.lactld.org ai A` to get it (that's how recursive resolves generally work)

Yeah, so I think I'm seeing something weird where some software isn't allowing this particular recursive query? I'll dig into it more. By the way: > The A record was never in the root zone. Are you sure of that? I don't have any proof, but my impression was that the DNS registry for ai (which was also just Vince Cate...) was able to ask for it because at one time the root zone was less restrictive in what RRtypes cou…

> Are you sure of that?

I checked an archive of root zone data from June 1999 to May 2021[0], and there don't seem to be A records for any TLD. Not sure why you're having this issue, but I'm curious to know which Linux distro/software doesn't resolve ai.

[0] http://stats.research.icann.org/root-zone/data/root-zone-arc...

Re: A URL Lengthener

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Microsoft also provides a URL lengthener via "Advanced Outlook.com security for Office 365 subscribers". Thanks to them, any URL we send or receive by email at work turns into an unrecognizable monster. At least the links include comforting words like "safelinks" and "protection" so that everyone can feel safe and protected.

Or when you Google something and copy a link straight from their search page. Novel-length URLs.

Re: A URL Lengthener

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I just couldn't resist. https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

As a usual incognito reader, the consent page has made this a lot less funnier than it used to be.

Re: A URL Lengthener

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post #239

Microsoft also provides a URL lengthener via "Advanced Outlook.com security for Office 365 subscribers". Thanks to them, any URL we send or receive by email at work turns into an unrecognizable monster. At least the links include comforting words like "safelinks" and "protection" so that everyone can feel safe and protected.

Or when you Google something and copy a link straight from their search page. Novel-length URLs.

This is so frustrating, I just want the url, but NO, you can an escaped version of the URL embedded inside another escaped blob instead. Ditto with Facebook.

Re: A URL Lengthener

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This domain uses 56 `a`-s. Interestingly enough 63 `a`-s .com is also a URL lengthener: http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

That's very weird! How did you even find this?

63 characters is the length limit for individual labels in domain names, so I just wanted to see who has the most `a`-s.

Re: A URL Lengthener

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Or when you Google something and copy a link straight from their search page. Novel-length URLs.

This is so frustrating, I just want the url, but NO, you can an escaped version of the URL embedded inside another escaped blob instead. Ditto with Facebook.

I use a Firefox addon for that, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-track-me...
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