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Re: http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener

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Post by boredguy8 »

_dan wrote: post #54
catone wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree with that statement. Even before the rise of microblogging, URL shorteners were helpful in certain situations. Which URL would you rather paste in an email for readability's sake: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Oak... or http://tr.im/Gw8B In context, the recipient should have no problem anticipating the URL's end point (i.e., you probably just wrote something like, "here are some directio…

The former. Even though it's 355 characters, at least it tells me it's a Google maps link. Which the shortened version doesn't. There are some situations where URL shortening is arguably useful. But there's absolutely no reason why "microblogging" should be one of them.

Yeah, I don't get why shorteners don't have the option to do something like http://tri.im/maps.google.com/8HkN - short but still insightful (way better than 'visit this preview page')

Re: http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener

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Post by rajusykam »

mauriez wrote: post #103
mauriez wrote: post #102

thats old news. Dot TK had that for ages. go to http://tweak.tk/ and read the technical part. They do it better though http://tk./abcde is http://abcde.tk which is even on character shorter ;)

btw: http://tk./ works as well ;)

can you please tell me the actual domain name ? I am dieing for last 24 hrs.

Re: http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener

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Post by pvandehaar »

I'm aware that restructuring the Domain Name System is not practical at this point but here's my idea: Domains should work hierarchically and be privately operated. Google Search would be "http://Google/Search/Web ". A company would buy "http://Org " and run a forwarding service so that "http://Org/RedCross " forwarded to the respective site. This would allow "http://a/ " to be a forwarder and, best of all, for the web to be fully recursive. Seems like the possibilities for such a system are limitless. For example, an internet-archive would be the normal site with "archive/" injected. There are of course many complex details and inefficiencies, but it would greatly improve human-readablity, making things more easily-explainable.

This could partially be based on all file-extensions being in the file-data rather than in the name and all folders having an "index" file that represented them (which could, then, be any type of file). I'd like to have an explanation for down-votes, please.

Re: http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener

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Post by rajusykam »

mauriez wrote: post #144
rajusykam wrote: post #142

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can you please tell me the actual domain name ? I am dieing for last 24 hrs.

um.. http://tk./ ? or http://dot.tk/ ?

I want to know the real complete domain name of http://to./ and http://tk./ I read all conversation. but didnt get. any help will be greatly appreciated,

Re: http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener

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Post by mauriez »

rajusykam wrote: post #146
mauriez wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

um.. http://tk./ ? or http://dot.tk/ ?

I want to know the real complete domain name of http://to./ and http://tk./ I read all conversation. but didnt get. any help will be greatly appreciated,

http://tk./ is the full domain name. Its just an A record on the TLD. http://tk./ is also available through http://dot.tk/.

I hope this helps you :)

Re: http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener

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Post by rajusykam »

mauriez wrote: post #147
rajusykam wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to know the real complete domain name of http://to./ and http://tk./ I read all conversation. but didnt get. any help will be greatly appreciated,

http://tk./ is the full domain name. Its just an A record on the TLD. http://tk./ is also available through http://dot.tk/ . I hope this helps you :)

ok, Thanks.

Re: http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener

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Post by carussell »

c3o wrote: post #138
windsurfer wrote: post #119

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I use an extension, like many others, that automatically "follows" every url shortener url on a page. Your stats are likely skewed.

In an ideal world the extension would only be making HEAD requests and the analytics system would only count GETs, right?

In an ideal world, HEAD and GET probably wouldn't exist.

But we're here. The question is, does the analytics system work that way?

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