Cache poisoning for Google's entries is more like it.
To bad they didn't try for www.'clygm'.com
Might have told you more.
More Like Cache Poisoning.
Cache poisoning for Google's entries is more like it.
To bad they didn't try for www.'clygm'.com Might have told you more. |
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looks like that "shortcut" domain might be available.
clygm looks to be available.
Might be something worth exploring, and since "domain tasting" is a thing of the past, it might just be a good thing. |
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How would that help me?
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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) |
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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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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] |
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Dammit, just got another report it's not coming up
This one is local, from right here in Cleveland.
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What is comes down to I think...
Is your DNS servers aren't properly setup with IP addresses.
greg@maxime:~ [0] $ whois -H cooklikeyourgrandmother.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Domain Name: COOKLIKEYOURGRANDMOTHER.COM Registrar: ABACUS AMERICA, INC. DBA NAMES4EVER Whois Server: whois.names4ever.com Referral URL: http://www.names4ever.com Name Server: NS1.ABAC.COM Name Server: NS2.ABAC.COM Status: ok Updated Date: 02-nov-2008 Creation Date: 01-nov-2007 Expiration Date: 01-nov-2009 >>> Last update of whois database: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:44:36 UTC <<< [snip] Record last updated on 2008-11-03 00:00:00 Record created on 2007-11-01 00:00:00 Record expires on 2009-11-01 00:00:00 Domain servers in listed order: ns1.abac.com 216.55.128.4 ns2.abac.com Notice anything missing there? |
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How about "ns1.aplus.net"?
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Sweet!
Just what you need.
Still has not propagated yet. Dude, that sucks! There is a reason I do my own DNS. I've only ever considered using DNSMADEEASY as they have 14 geo-located DCs that can fail over traffic and do it right. But oh well, this might learn ya to run DNS separate from Registrar. https://www.dnsmadee...06/price/dns.html They have a 100% uptime guarantee. $30/year for 5 million DNS queries a month. DNS is critical to making your site WORK, you might want to take the extra step. |