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Short URLs: Why and How

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Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by corlinpalmer »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #2

I 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’s Corlin and I own corl.in

I sign up for accounts with emails like apple@corl.in and that lets me easily filter and organize my inbox.

But when I have to tell some customer service rep my email they get very confused.

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by nittanymount »

rsync wrote: post #31

I don't like this at all - there is value in a hierarchical naming structure - even if it doesn't represent actual directories . A simple example is: https://www.kozubik.com/ ... where you can find "items": https://www.kozubik.com/items/ ... and one thing inside of "items" is an article on NDS emitters: https://www.kozubik.com/items/nds/ ... which contains supporting multimedia objects: https://www.kozubik.com/items/…

agree, about to say this...

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by andai »

cinntaile wrote: post #34
onion2k wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't determine the file system structure from the URLs. The can map directly, but they don't have to Also... http?

Why not http? Secure connections add overhead. It's not like this site contains any secrets?

I think the motivation for using HTTPS with static content is to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks that inject advertising or malware into pages. I have read about governments, ISPs and hotels doing that sort of thing.

One example of what can be done is to cause the users to DDoS a third party.

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by eyelidlessness »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #36

> Go to sive.rs/ff for my talk about the first follower I absolutely will not. At least with known URL shorteners I know that’s what I’m getting and can inspect further. When I get links like this I assume I’m getting spam or malware. Almost all of the time it’s spam.

Downvote all you want and enjoy your craft URLs, may they all be safe for aol of you.

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by blowski »

andai wrote: post #40
blowski wrote: post #4

Earlier 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.

Why not danblo.ws?

Apart from the extra coolness, it also let me have the email d@nblo.ws.

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by mrb »

Tomte wrote: post #7
blowski wrote: post #4

Earlier 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.

I use an email address with a single-letter username (m@...) and have never had a problem with services rejecting it. The only problem is that rarely when I sign up for a service using a random password like gAdlzIBVom4j3Paf, it tells me "your password cannot contain your username" because it contains the letter "m". Hah!

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by blowski »

Tomte wrote: post #7
blowski wrote: post #4

Earlier 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.

Yep, I’ve encountered that problem fairly often. These days, I only use that email for vanity.

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by zhte415 »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #5
blowski wrote: post #4

Earlier 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.

Ah! The del.i.cio.us days.

Having lunch with a friend he said something I didn't expect,

> but my C drive crashed and I lost the bookmarks.

There's still a Delicious market.

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by markdown »

rsync wrote: post #31

I don't like this at all - there is value in a hierarchical naming structure - even if it doesn't represent actual directories . A simple example is: https://www.kozubik.com/ ... where you can find "items": https://www.kozubik.com/items/ ... and one thing inside of "items" is an article on NDS emitters: https://www.kozubik.com/items/nds/ ... which contains supporting multimedia objects: https://www.kozubik.com/items/…

"items" isn't very useful.

Have either:

example.com/

or, if categories exist:

example.com//

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