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Amazon's short URL: http://a.co
- scrapcode 13y agoAre they required to report how much they paid for the domain? I'm interested in seeing numbers if anyone has them.
- thelegit 13y ago$19,329
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoAccording to the .co registry, e.co was sold for $81,000, so I doubt a.co would be that much cheaper.
- thelegit 13y agolol - not gonna lie I may or may not be making fun of the question here... there's no way Amazon would ever release that kind of information.
- Peroni 13y agoSource?
- drsintoma 13y agoI was not aware that 1 character domains where possible until now. I wonder why they are restricted in most main TLDs.
- artursapek 13y agoTwitter uses t.co
- neya 13y agoI guess it's all about the money. The fact the amazon could afford it and I nor you couldn't explains it better, I guess.
- mikeevans 13y agoI'm not sure about any others except Google uses g.co for shortening their own URLs. Edit: And Twitter uses t.co
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- kijeda 13y agoIANA blocked registration of most of them under gTLDs (.COM, .NET, etc.) in 1993, on the thought they may be useful to support extensibility of the DNS down the track. Country-code operators have typically followed that lead as good practice. As they were never really used for that purpose, slowly but surely they have been released into circulation. The applications by registry operators to lift the one- and two-letter domain restrictions are at http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registries/rsep http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registries/rsep
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- RKearney 13y agoA TLD can have an A record, so in theory you could have a "0 character" domain. You could also use it for email, so a@co would be a valid email address if co. had an A or MX record associated with it.
- Peroni 13y agoAs expected, Google own http://g.co http://g.co and twitter own http://t.co http://t.co yet http://f.co http://f.co is available.
- RKearney 13y agoWhy would they need/want f.co? They already own fb.me. f.co is one letter shorter and isn't as easily identifiable as fb.me.
- 27182818284 13y agoThe same reason Google owns Gtaxes. It might be useful in the future and better to have it yourself than someone else? I'd imagine FB would want to squat on it at least.
- mikek 13y agof.me would be excellent.
- miahi 13y agoUnfortunately .yu ccTLD expired.
- jere 13y agoOne of the main reasons I used short URLs before was twitter, but they shorten* all of them for you now. *Unless the original URL is less than 22 characters, in which case they conveniently _lengthen_ it for you. Which includes many of the unshortened links I post. I even recently set up my blog so posts have a ~9 character permalink. So twitter would award me with about a dozen bonus characters.
- umsm 13y agoWhat do people use short URLs for nowadays? I used to run one that was "dynamnic" in the sense that you had a number of services that it could resolve and specific data you would send the services. But it never gained traction. /g/search+query /bing/search+query /amazon/product+search /g.images/image+search etc.
- jere 13y agoI guess that's what I'm asking. The only thing I know it's really useful for is making small QR codes. Of course, a lot of people would disagree about the utility: http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/ http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
- NoahTheDuke 13y agoA coffee shop in my city uses Stampt[0], so I see someone scanning a qr code nearly every day. Still, that tumblr is pretty dang accurate. [0]: http://mobivity.com/stampt/ http://mobivity.com/stampt/
- HelloMcFly 13y agoI use them when sending URLs through text messages.
- Xylakant 13y agoone major use-case is tracking. The short-url goes to a redirector where the visit gets tracked. That's the most annoying part of short URLs.
- eliaskg 13y agoAnd the owner of http://a.pl http://a.pl still hopes for a call from Cupertino.
- juziozd 13y agoDidn't they get the call last year: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409669,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409669,00.asp
- duiker101 13y agothat story makes me sad...
- pestaa 13y agoI might have purchased ap.pl or aa.pl instead. (Which one is their stock identity?)
- Hovertruck 13y agoAAPL
- veesahni 13y agolooks like overstock got http://o.co http://o.co for $350,000 .. is that the ballpark price for a 1 character .co?
- hmart 13y agoLook dk domain http://dk http://dk resolves even without the subdomain.How's that possible?
- axyjo 13y agoDoesn't resolve for me.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agohttp://www.dk http://www.dk redirects to http://www.telenor.dk http://www.telenor.dk
- jabiko 13y agoThis is strange. I was able to resolve the IP using the host command. But curl and ping won't work. $ host dk dk has address 193.163.102.24 dk has IPv6 address 2a01:630:0:40:b1a:b1a:2011:1 $ curl dk curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'dk' $ ping dk ping: unknown host dk $ EDIT: Putting a . behind dk solves the problem.
- niels 13y agoIt's owned by the danish top level register. I guess they just added a dns entry for that.
- aw3c2 13y agoIt is "just a domain". Top level at that. If you control it, you can point it to an IP. There are more, http://shii.org/tech/tld.html http://shii.org/tech/tld.html
- stanleydrew 13y agoNothing special about a tld resolving. You can put an A record on anything. Many companies set up internal DNS names like "go" or "wiki" so that they resolve to helpful internal tools. This is like a public version of that.
- joeframbach 13y agoThe global top-level domain is a dot (.) Point your browser to www.google.com. and it will resolve the same. com. and net. and dk. are top-level domains, but still are "subdomains" under the global ".". The administrator of the dk tld just pointed a dns record at it.
- susi22 13y agoNot working: http://a.co/B0083PWAPW http://a.co/B0083PWAPW Working: http://amzn.com/B0083PWAPW http://amzn.com/B0083PWAPW
- dlhavema 13y agoboth of this links "worked" for me, only one of them took me to the product directly, the other took me just to the homepage with Kindle suggestions instead of the suggestions served up by http://a.co http://a.co i'm guessing that's what you meant.
- alex_doom 13y agoz.com used to go to a site for Nissan's Z
- footpath 13y agohttp://z.cn http://z.cn goes to Amazon China.