[H-GEN] And the winner of the shortest URL shortener is ...

Russell Stuart russell-humbug at stuart.id.au
Thu Apr 8 05:05:33 EDT 2010


No doubt you are all aware of URL shorteners.  I think the original was
http://tinyurl.com.  But when you think about it, the domain name
tinyurl.com isn't very short.

Then came http://bit.ly which is definitely better but there is still
room for improvement.  Then the aptly named http://tweak.tk gave bit.ly
a run for their money and mapped URL's to domain names (*twitch*), but
tweak.tk is rather a lot to type.  The owners of bit.ly replied by
buying http://j.mp which I thought was a masterstroke.  It seems like it
was about as short as you could get while having a good acronym.

But no, I was wrong on both counts.  Now we have http://to.  Surely this
marks the end of the race, short of ICANN inventing a special TLD just
for this purpose.




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