Short URLs: Why and How
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Short URLs: Why and How
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#2I own a 3-letter domain with a 2-letter TLD and still spells my family name. Many of my friends finds it cool when I share links via that domain. The links are indeed easy to remember but it comes at a higher yearly cost of renewal and I had forgotten to renew twice. Luckily, I was able to re-register them (nobody wants it, ;-)).
Example https://oin.am/rr/
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#3I’m it sure what this optimises for.
Those who care about SEO use long slugs for the extra juice. Those who don’t can use IDs or whatever works for them.
Shareable URLs - still need to share the domain, and most of us (including sive.rs) don’t have a particularly memorable one.
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#4I own a 3-letter domain with a 2-letter TLD and still spells my family name. Many of my friends finds it cool when I share links via that domain. The links are indeed easy to remember but it comes at a higher yearly cost of renewal and I had forgotten to renew twice. Luckily, I was able to re-register them (nobody wants it, ;-)). Example https://oin.am/rr/
My name is Dan Blows, and my domain is da.nblo.ws, which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Most people are confused or don’t even notice it.
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#5I own a 3-letter domain with a 2-letter TLD and still spells my family name. Many of my friends finds it cool when I share links via that domain. The links are indeed easy to remember but it comes at a higher yearly cost of renewal and I had forgotten to renew twice. Luckily, I was able to re-register them (nobody wants it, ;-)). Example https://oin.am/rr/
My name is Dan Blows, and my domain is da.nblo.ws, which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Most people are confused or don’t even notice it.
Ah! The del.i.cio.us days.
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#6Depending on how much your write, URL collisions can naturally become a real problem. If you use a SSG then all your post HTML documents will be in the same directory, forever. This isn't a problem if you don't spit out posts, but if you post a lot your directory can become rather unwieldy. I'd say, at least throw a year in there: /2022/su/.
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#7I own a 3-letter domain with a 2-letter TLD and still spells my family name. Many of my friends finds it cool when I share links via that domain. The links are indeed easy to remember but it comes at a higher yearly cost of renewal and I had forgotten to renew twice. Luckily, I was able to re-register them (nobody wants it, ;-)). Example https://oin.am/rr/
My name is Dan Blows, and my domain is da.nblo.ws, which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Most people are confused or don’t even notice it.
I used to have a mail address along the lines of d@nblows.com
But beware, single letter local parts are not universally supported by web sites.
Microsoft accounts with those mail addresses are possible (they used to be impossible), but recently I stumbled upon two other web sites that didn't like single letter local parts.
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#8Depending on how much your write, URL collisions can naturally become a real problem. If you use a SSG then all your post HTML documents will be in the same directory, forever. This isn't a problem if you don't spit out posts, but if you post a lot your directory can become rather unwieldy. I'd say, at least throw a year in there: /2022/su/.
This is indeed a big problem I faced when I moved from WordPress to Jekyll. I decided to segregate them by year (very unique); so my articles/posts are /yyyy/foo-bar/. I did decided on the URL loooong back in WordPress as that was the most sane thing I could do while still writing a lot but have some segregation. E.g. There are about 93 files/posts in the "2006" folder for my website.
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#9I use mydomain.ext/long-descriptive-name for SEO but have my own url shortener, with.id/something (with.id is my short domain, and very "generic" name). Basically I follow Google like their go.gl shortener.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
My name is Dan Blows, and my domain is da.nblo.ws, which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Most people are confused or don’t even notice it.
I used to have a mail address along the lines of d@nblows.com But beware, single letter local parts are not universally supported by web sites. Microsoft accounts with those mail addresses are possible (they used to be impossible), but recently I stumbled upon two other web sites that didn't like single letter local parts.
Yes, I did that single letter email way back around 2007-2008 and had it with my Bank (closed account for a company). Now, I can neither change nor login (not valid to them), and I have set a specific filter just to ignore that email from the Bank that keeps sending me newsletter and offers.
I don't use the short oin.am as my primary (which is oinam.com), I have it as a alias domain, allowing me to quickly say/hand-write my email to someone and continue the conversation from my main domain -- say, ß@oin.am.