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

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On 8/04/2010 19:05, Russell Stuart wrote:
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> 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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Of course this works in Windows 7 in Firefox but not in IE8.  ;)

Typical, eh?

- HiltonT