llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogo.ch

janusz · 16 Mar 2013, 03:58 AM

URL shortener

FredOnline · 16 Mar 2013, 04:14 AM

For those not in the know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

petergh · 16 Mar 2013, 04:56 AM

Good one, janusz!

n5bb · 16 Mar 2013, 12:10 PM

Enjoy:
http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychw...iogogogo.ch/eu

Bamb0 · 17 Mar 2013, 01:37 PM

I thought this was another spam thread!!! (Until I saw who the poster was

)

Another good one: www.tinyurl.com

Tsunami · 24 Mar 2013, 01:34 AM

Of all pun intended stuff on the web, this is by far the most original one I've seen in ages

Pure brilliance! Using the term "URL shortener" adds to the whole thing. Bizarre idea, equally brilliant announcement. This is superb

PS: the actual village in Wales needed an exception from Nominet (who take care of .co.uk registrations) as the village name surpassed the normal character limit of a .co.uk domain. Nominet allowed them an exception to the restriction on nr of characters, so that they could still allow to register their village name.

I believe the name used to be shorter but they added some Welsh adjectives to it to make it the longest place name in the UK, then built a train station with tourist store, and cashed in on it.

Tsunami · 24 Mar 2013, 01:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bamb0

I thought this was another spam thread!!! (Until I saw who the poster was

)

Another good one: www.tinyurl.com

A lot of "short URL" providers bomb you with spam, either ads or popup advertisements. The only one I used which I liked really, was Ulimit.com who have some decent ones and don't mess up your site with an overdose of ads. That said, some of their most used domain extentions (such as .tf) are under dispute now between the current and former registry...

I believe .co.nr, new.fr, and .de.vu (the latter even providing free webspace too) have a good reputation too, and so do .uni.cc and .eu.org but those require to use an own DNS as you cannot use the providers' servers to simply set up forwarding. Afraid.org (odd site name, I know) also has some good ones, but again you need to know how to do the DNS settings yourself.

In the past there were some other good ones such as .co.tv, .co.be, .biz.ly, ... but many of those are poorly managed now or on the brink of ceasing operations.

I'd say that most such services also are not exactly making sense domain-wise. Imagine you run a website on your favourite athlete, www.lionelmessi.co.at.tt would not exactly make sense or work out for mouth-to-mouth advertisement. While Ulimit worked fine for me, other than .be.tf I'm not that wild about their extentions.

The only really good one I'd say, is .eu.org (.co.tv has the potential if it wasn't so unstable). eu.org has been around for over a decade too. The only downside is that the helpdesk is terrible: many simply don't respond to mails, and some helpdesk addresses on the website are out of date. So I guess .eu.org makes a good extention but you need to work out everything yourself DNS-wise.

Knowing a .com is < 10 USD a year, and some extentions are ever cheaper (eg .com.es) , why rely on something like TinyURL, JoyNIC, and other similar ones?

Bamb0 · 24 Mar 2013, 02:35 AM

Well TINYURL is free and doesnt seem to bombard anyone with spam or anything.......

Tsunami · 29 Mar 2013, 01:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bamb0

Well TINYURL is free and doesnt seem to bombard anyone with spam or anything.......

Yes but would you really like your site to be like name-of-your-website.co.at.tt or name-of-website.us.pn or so? Those extentions combined make very little sense and are hard for mouth to mouth advertising. Not to mention you depend on how long the domain owners want to continue providing the service.

I bought a new domain this week. Less than 9 USD (so that's about 6 or 7 euro) for a .com which is entirely in my control, without relying on the goodwill of a third party and with an address that makes sense. OK, I did pay the approx 9 USD (it was 8.90 or so) but would you want to rely on a third party's goodwill and capabilities of running a service when for a price as low as 9 USD you can have your own domain without having to worry about ads, pop-ups, difficult to remember URL's, ...

Bamb0 · 29 Mar 2013, 06:16 AM

Indeed... Ads are getting quite insane and annoying lately!!! (If one doesnt have a filter of some kind (Which i assume almost everyone does now))

Tsunami · 30 Mar 2013, 08:15 PM

If someone is really greedy, .com.es domains require no presence in Spain and cost less than 3 euro per year (as opposed to the slightly more expensive .es domains). Also, I believe .cn or .com.cn can be registered for 1 or 2 euro per annum with some registrars.

So if the 9 USD per annum for a .com is too much, there's still other options than having a complex URL with a suffix like .com.au.tt

Although it amazes me some people insist on free when it comes to domains. Webhosting is a different thing, that can be quite costly indeed. But domains?! Skip 1 visit to a McDonald's and you already saved the money you need to buy your own .com domain....

Chipper · 19 Apr 2013, 03:22 PM

I used to have an email address here:
http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy...cdefghijk.com/

Unfortunately I didn't use it that much and after 30 days it gets inactive if you don't sign in.

Tsunami · 21 Apr 2013, 05:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chipper

I used to have an email address here:
http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy...cdefghijk.com/

Unfortunately I didn't use it that much and after 30 days it gets inactive if you don't sign in.

Did you manage to find anyone able to memorise your email address by heart anyway?

I wonder what thoughts spin in the minds of those who create email services such as abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com or URL redirects like llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogo.ch ... In a way, these are such genius parodies of the web that these creators deserve an award for such great irony and creativity combined

16 Mar 2013, 03:58 AM	#1
janusz Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: EU Posts: 5,016	llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogo.ch URL shortener

16 Mar 2013, 04:14 AM	#2
FredOnline The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Manchester UK Posts: 2,616	For those not in the know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

16 Mar 2013, 04:56 AM	#3
petergh Master of the @ Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 1,309	Good one, janusz!

16 Mar 2013, 12:10 PM	#4
n5bb Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: May 2004 Location: Irving, Texas Posts: 9,131	Enjoy: http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychw...iogogogo.ch/eu

17 Mar 2013, 01:37 PM	#5
Bamb0 The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 2,370	I thought this was another spam thread!!! (Until I saw who the poster was ) Another good one: www.tinyurl.com

24 Mar 2013, 01:34 AM	#6
Tsunami The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown Posts: 2,618	Of all pun intended stuff on the web, this is by far the most original one I've seen in ages Pure brilliance! Using the term "URL shortener" adds to the whole thing. Bizarre idea, equally brilliant announcement. This is superb PS: the actual village in Wales needed an exception from Nominet (who take care of .co.uk registrations) as the village name surpassed the normal character limit of a .co.uk domain. Nominet allowed them an exception to the restriction on nr of characters, so that they could still allow to register their village name. I believe the name used to be shorter but they added some Welsh adjectives to it to make it the longest place name in the UK, then built a train station with tourist store, and cashed in on it.

24 Mar 2013, 02:35 AM	#8
Bamb0 The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 2,370	Well TINYURL is free and doesnt seem to bombard anyone with spam or anything.......

29 Mar 2013, 06:16 AM	#10
Bamb0 The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 2,370	Indeed... Ads are getting quite insane and annoying lately!!! (If one doesnt have a filter of some kind (Which i assume almost everyone does now))

30 Mar 2013, 08:15 PM	#11
Tsunami The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown Posts: 2,618	If someone is really greedy, .com.es domains require no presence in Spain and cost less than 3 euro per year (as opposed to the slightly more expensive .es domains). Also, I believe .cn or .com.cn can be registered for 1 or 2 euro per annum with some registrars. So if the 9 USD per annum for a .com is too much, there's still other options than having a complex URL with a suffix like .com.au.tt Although it amazes me some people insist on free when it comes to domains. Webhosting is a different thing, that can be quite costly indeed. But domains?! Skip 1 visit to a McDonald's and you already saved the money you need to buy your own .com domain....

19 Apr 2013, 03:22 PM	#12
Chipper Master of the @ Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Greenbelt, MD (USA) Posts: 1,279	I used to have an email address here: http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy...cdefghijk.com/ Unfortunately I didn't use it that much and after 30 days it gets inactive if you don't sign in.