The fascination with url shorteners is really worrying and useless. Can we get past this fad?
Indeed. They're a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener
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#32Somehow uses IDN TLD to eschew the TLD altogether. Let the landgrab begin!
No, it is the TLD (for Tonga). Somehow they hawked out their TLD A-record. (edit: turns out it's actually run by the ISP who operates the .to TLD)
Check out http://ai (my DNS seems not to like it but there is a site). I love the URL. :)
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it is the TLD (for Tonga). Somehow they hawked out their TLD A-record. (edit: turns out it's actually run by the ISP who operates the .to TLD)
yeah, got root level on the tld .. how did they manage that..
When it comes to national TLDs and how a company can have this level of access... I don't want to know...
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#35I wrote a program to find the shortest URL. Enjoy! #!/usr/bin/perl # use WWW::Mechanize; die "usage: $0 " unless @ARGV; $name = 'a'; $m = WWW::Mechanize->new; while (1) { print "Trying http://to./$name\n"; $m->post('http://to./', { url => $ARGV[0], name => $name, 'Witz that URL!' => 'Witz that URL!' }); unless ($m->content =~ /sorry/) { print "You got http://to./$name\n"; exit(0); } $name++; }
It's polite to add a short sleep between requests. Although, in perl it would be a short select!
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#36Have they just broken every single url regex out there?
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#37Just what the world needs, YAUS
I smell irony.
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#38Can someone give me a quick introduction on how this was done?
1- Periods (.) don't do anything after a domain (ie www.weebly.com.), but they are useful for preventing the browsers from redirecting to http://www.to.com/ 2- The real domain we're looking at: "to" -- no "suffix" attached (TLD: top-level domain ) 3- The .to registry added an A-record for the "to" domain, which resolves correctly. [Edit: Looks like .cm does this too: ;; ANSWER SECTION: cm. 86400 IN A 195.24.205.60]
Does this mean we should expect http://com./ http://net./ etc?
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#39The fascination with url shorteners is really worrying and useless. Can we get past this fad?
I was against shorteners for a long while, but you can't argue against the fact that it lets you fit more in your message when you have a character limit to deal with, such as with Twitter, identica, FriendFeed, etc. I try to restrict my use of shorteners to microblogging. When following shortened links, I just use common sense and take into account how much I trust the source of the shortened URL. In practice, this has worked very well for me.
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#40Chrome doesn't really like the URLs, and Twitter doesn't see them either. Awesome, though.
Funny, it's working under my current configuration with Firefox but not with Opera and Chrome translates it in a Google search. Not the world's best URL shortener...
Works fine for me in Opera (10.10), whether clicking or typing.