Can someone give me a quick introduction on how this was done?
No workie on Chrome and IE.
Tommy Boy reference, I'm guessing.
http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener
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#122This was my idea originally. I talk to the guy that runs the registrar occasionally (I got burri.to 12 years ago...)
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#123I can't believe no one here seems to be using http://urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com/
lol wow, amazing landing page text.
'THINK ABOUT IT: If your grandmother sees this link: http://bit.ly/zPWG6 she'll think, "Hmm, does someone want me to fly to Lithuania to get my teeth fixed?"'
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
URL regexes which were already broken from the beginning...
Indeed. DNS names without dots have been used for decades in intranets.
Not to mention http://museum
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh? And for the record, chrome and ie no worky for me either. Firefox does though.
When you say no workie or no worky, what accent are you mimicking?
A little kid's? Don't know what you are talking about, and a quick google gives no relevant results. Perhaps old meanings die quietly over time? Also, this thread is the top google reference for "no workie" racism, doesn't look like there is much keyword competition.
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#126Check
http://w.ai
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#127Looks like they put up a secret password now.
Anyone brute forced it yet?
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#128The entire point of having a domain "name" is to have a human-readable representation of an address. Take the human readable part out of the URL and you're left with useless.
Because:
http://milkandcookies.net/2008/07/12/?lang=en_US&cntry=US&source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3D123%26lang%3Den-US&geoloc=-45.001,-53.175
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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]
.cm is owned by a spammer. Nearly anything .cm redirects to agoga.net.
org. is interesting. It looks like the Apache server isn't set up correctly.
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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…
The concern for me is that they disguise the original URL and if the shortner ever ceases to exist the context of a lot of microblogging posts will be lost for ever.
who cares if the content is lost forever? It's ephemeral data anyway. The emphasis is real-time not all-time.