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Post #313,419
by drook
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9/2/09 8:23:36 AM
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New How would that help me?
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Drew
Post #313,423
by folkert
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9/2/09 8:42:43 AM
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New Re: How would that help me?
For blogs other than yours?

You have to admit:

cooklikeyourgrandmother.com

is a LOT hard to type and get right than:

clygm.com


And given the Tweets/SMS/IM character limits, shorter is always better.

I know you aren't going after the IM/SMS crowd, but it never hurts to plan ahead in case you NEED it. Considering the price per year... $1/month or less, is it really *NOT* worth having it at least reserved? (or owned but not used)
Post #313,429
by drook
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9/2/09 9:43:36 AM
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New It's got to be pronounceable
Dave Weiner over at scripting.com has been doing a lot of work lately on URL shortening services. The problem is that if one of them goes down a large number of links go dead. His solution is that you have to own your own short names.

Having the short URL for my own links would solve that problem, but at the expense of having to set up a 301 redirect for every hit to it, pointing to the corresponding long URL. My URLs are pretty long after the domain anyway, so it's not really saving that much.

My site isn't really conducive to reading on a phone anyway, unless you've got enough screen space to be using email instead of SMS anyway, so I'm not terribly worried about the short URLs.

Bottom line is I can say "cook like your grandmother dot com" and people get it right. "see el why gee em" won't stick more than 30 seconds for most people.
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Post #313,440
by folkert
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9/2/09 12:27:52 PM
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New The 301 is a single re-write rule in Apache.
As for the pronounceable short URLs...

I think you are missing the point in the first place. But I can see your point, stinking in the brain is important.

cooklygm.com

greg@maxime:~ [0] $ whois -H cooklygm.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

No match for "COOKLYGM.COM".
>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:19:57 UTC <<<


And the Redirect would be something like:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} blog.cooklygm.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} cooklygm.com$
RewriteRule ^/$ http://blog.cooklikeyourgrandmother.com/ [R=301,L]

     Any way to see if ISPs are blocking my domain? - (drook) - (29) - Sept. 1, 2009, 09:26:19 AM EDT
         not that way - (boxley) - (14) - Sept. 1, 2009, 09:40:55 AM EDT
             Symptoms suggest a block, not DNS - (drook) - (13) - Sept. 1, 2009, 09:48:33 AM EDT
                 maybe a corporate ban? - (boxley) - (12) - Sept. 1, 2009, 11:16:43 AM EDT
                     Yup, sounds like a problem at the user's end. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - (11) - Sept. 1, 2009, 11:54:39 AM EDT
                         That's what I thought until I got the second report - (drook) - (10) - Sept. 2, 2009, 02:29:34 AM EDT
                             More Like Cache Poisoning. - (folkert) - (9) - Sept. 2, 2009, 07:09:07 AM EDT
                                 looks like that "shortcut" domain might be available. - (folkert) - (4) - Sept. 2, 2009, 08:21:44 AM EDT
                                     How would that help me? -NT - (drook) - (3) - Sept. 2, 2009, 08:23:36 AM EDT
                                         Re: How would that help me? - (folkert) - (2) - Sept. 2, 2009, 08:42:43 AM EDT
                                             It's got to be pronounceable - (drook) - (1) - Sept. 2, 2009, 09:43:36 AM EDT
                                                 The 301 is a single re-write rule in Apache. - (folkert) - Sept. 2, 2009, 12:27:52 PM EDT
                                 Dammit, just got another report it's not coming up - (drook) - (3) - Sept. 4, 2009, 09:29:51 AM EDT
                                     What is comes down to I think... - (folkert) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2009, 03:47:49 PM EDT
                                         How about "ns1.aplus.net"? -NT - (drook) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2009, 04:57:02 PM EDT
                                             Sweet! - (folkert) - Sept. 4, 2009, 07:24:39 PM EDT
         pro2.abac.com == 66.226.64.3 == cooklikeyourgrandmother.com - (folkert) - (13) - Sept. 1, 2009, 06:49:39 PM EDT
             one more, you've got *NO* SPF/DKIM/SenderIP records... - (folkert) - (12) - Sept. 1, 2009, 07:05:18 PM EDT
                 I dont have DKIM senderid spf and Im not blocked :-) - (boxley) - (2) - Sept. 1, 2009, 07:38:42 PM EDT
                     Yes, I understand that Bill. - (folkert) - (1) - Sept. 1, 2009, 07:55:37 PM EDT
                         Re: Yes, I understand that Bill. - (boxley) - Sept. 1, 2009, 08:27:33 PM EDT
                 Bleurgh ... gotta do some reading - (drook) - (8) - Sept. 1, 2009, 08:41:39 PM EDT
                     I find all this stuff rather scary, myself. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Sept. 1, 2009, 08:57:25 PM EDT
                         I guess it's a noble effort. - (static) - (2) - Sept. 1, 2009, 09:04:49 PM EDT
                             I've been thinking about going the OTHER way. - (folkert) - (1) - Sept. 1, 2009, 10:50:45 PM EDT
                                 That's the direction I've been going - (drook) - Sept. 2, 2009, 12:46:47 AM EDT
                     here ya go - (boxley) - (3) - Sept. 1, 2009, 10:44:13 PM EDT
                         Are you serious? - (drook) - (2) - Sept. 2, 2009, 12:38:31 AM EDT
                             stuff like that interests me, but I understand it - (boxley) - (1) - Sept. 2, 2009, 08:05:31 AM EDT
                                 Speaking of sausage, You see the recent... - (folkert) - Sept. 2, 2009, 08:34:25 AM EDT

What kind of monster says “take care”?
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