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haha nice! I built the exact opposite the shortest possible URL shortener :) https://t.ly/ https://t.ly/
by TimLeland 5y ago
haha nice! I built the exact opposite the shortest possible URL shortener :) https://t.ly/ https://t.ly/
- caslon 5y agoIt could be shorter still! Stop forcing HTTPS!
- TimLeland 5y agoHTTPS is not required. t.ly works fine without "https:// https://"
- caslon 5y agoReally? The browsers I usually use to test if a site works without HTTPS (IE6 and IE8 on XP SP2) can't load it. Weird!
- alphabet9000 5y agothe http url is a 301 redirect to https so thats why it doesn't load ultimately
- caslon 5y agoDisappointing; that doesn't really count!
- TimLeland 5y agoCurious to how you are still running IE6 :)
- caslon 5y agoIt's the default for XP SP2.
- m463 5y agoso ftp:// ? or is there something shorter?
- caslon 5y agoHTTP!
- hundchenkatze 5y agoI think http is longer than ftp :P
- jawns 5y agoMind sharing some background? I'm curious about how you snagged the domain, how you've managed to monetize it, and what the competition is like in this space.
- schoen 5y agoFor many years (but no longer) Vince Cate's Offshore Information Services had a DNS A record for the ccTLD "ai", so that http://ai/ http://ai/ was a valid URL that worked in browsers. (A few people also had e-mail addresses @ai.) Today, there are no longer any TLDs of any kind with their own A records. https://www.internic.net/domain/root.zone https://www.internic.net/domain/root.zone
- leblancfg 5y agoNeat! That link worked for me on the latest Chrome ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- schoen 5y agoI don't understand how that could be (!).
- necovek 5y agoPerhaps it auto-prepends "www" to it (since that worked for me on FF).
- sharken 5y agoFound this old comment about it (of course it had to be a long URL) https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com/a?áaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂåAæãæãæaæââÁáÆáÆåÅåäæææâáÅæÀåâåÆåÄåáåÀåÅåàæãåÆæááÅåâåÆåÄáÆåÀæãåäåÄâÆåÀåãâÄâàâaâaâââàâåâãâä https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
- mod 5y agoWorks here, too. Chrome on Android. Got a very basic html site with Vi ce Cates' name on it.
- Kelamir 5y agoFirefox, works just fine.
- athenot 5y agoThankfully, your URL can be lengthened to this: https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com/a?áaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂåAæãæãæaæââÁáÆáÆæãáÅåÃæÀáÆ https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
- Retr0spectrum 5y agoYou've shortened 6,463,545 links so far. Assuming you're using a charset of [A-Za-z0-9], that gives you 14,776,336 total possible 4-character URLs. Almost half way there! What's your plan once you reach the 4-character limit? Roll over to 5, or something fancier?
- TimLeland 5y agoYes, you are correct. I don't have anything fancy planned. Users with accounts are able to customize the ending so this will increase the availability. Currently, Bitly is up to 7 characters long when you create a random short URL. T.LY is already 2 characters shorter and there are still plenty of short random URLs 62^5 = 916,132,832
- sethammons 5y agoyears ago, we asked bit.ly if they could vendor our link shortening and tracking. Turned out we were already a couple multiples larger than them in terms of link processing. our use case is a bit different though. Instead of one link given to many, we tend to be one link given to one recipient. Optimizing this kind of problem is interesting and fun.