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For this exact reason I registered my own 1-letter URL shortener domain and use it to create my own custom redirects whenever I want without submitting to someo

by gesman 13y ago

For this exact reason I registered my own 1-letter URL shortener domain and use it to create my own custom redirects whenever I want without submitting to someone's BS TOS. It's better to promote your own brand than someone else's. Send me email at: g@c.gg :)

johnchristopher 13y ago
I got curious and checked c.gg and I see it is for sale. Are you selling your own shortener domain you used to create your own short URL's ?
- gesman 13y ago
  I tried to build business on it (didn't have time/resources to push it) then sell it in the past, but it didn't happen. Then I started seeing more and more value having your own, really short and easy to type URL shortener - for exact reason author wrote this post. I plan to set it up like my personal "tiny.cc" allowing for vanity urls for easy navigations For example: http://c.gg/regex http://c.gg/regex http://c.gg/az http://c.gg/az
  - zrail 13y ago
    I have the same thing on pkn.me. That just resolves to my normal blog which redirects to the canonical URL. So I can have, for example, http://pkn.me/r http://pkn.me/r for my resume and http://pkn.me/mmp http://pkn.me/mmp for my book landing page. I used to give random 5 letter strings to my posts as their ID but now I actually put some thought into it so I can have good, rememberable short URLs.
anoncow 13y ago
Can you give us some backstory on how you acquired a single letter domain name, please.
- gesman 13y ago
  I wanted to find a 1-letter domain that was the easiest to type on a keyboard (with my 2-finger typing habit). I think that was back in 2006-ish days. So i found that typing keys C + . + GG requires an absolutely minimal amount of physical finger effort as hands are almost perfectly positioned above these keys. So I registered these. In fact back then there were a plenty of other 1-letter domain available up for a grabs. I used to do professional photo business and registered GO.GL - as my first name is Gleb (still have business cards laying around with this address). At the same time i thought that registering GOO.GL would be cool too - but back then the greenland (owner of this TLD) charged $50/yr + the only way you can register is by sending them a FAX. So I didn't bother. I am actually good at picking decent domain names even today.
  - anoncow 13y ago
    Thank you.

by gesman 13y ago

johnchristopher 13y ago

I got curious and checked c.gg and I see it is for sale. Are you selling your own shortener domain you used to create your own short URL's ?

gesman 13y ago
I tried to build business on it (didn't have time/resources to push it) then sell it in the past, but it didn't happen. Then I started seeing more and more value having your own, really short and easy to type URL shortener - for exact reason author wrote this post. I plan to set it up like my personal "tiny.cc" allowing for vanity urls for easy navigations For example: http://c.gg/regex http://c.gg/regex http://c.gg/az http://c.gg/az
- zrail 13y ago
  I have the same thing on pkn.me. That just resolves to my normal blog which redirects to the canonical URL. So I can have, for example, http://pkn.me/r http://pkn.me/r for my resume and http://pkn.me/mmp http://pkn.me/mmp for my book landing page. I used to give random 5 letter strings to my posts as their ID but now I actually put some thought into it so I can have good, rememberable short URLs.

anoncow 13y ago

Can you give us some backstory on how you acquired a single letter domain name, please.

gesman 13y ago
I wanted to find a 1-letter domain that was the easiest to type on a keyboard (with my 2-finger typing habit). I think that was back in 2006-ish days. So i found that typing keys C + . + GG requires an absolutely minimal amount of physical finger effort as hands are almost perfectly positioned above these keys. So I registered these. In fact back then there were a plenty of other 1-letter domain available up for a grabs. I used to do professional photo business and registered GO.GL - as my first name is Gleb (still have business cards laying around with this address). At the same time i thought that registering GOO.GL would be cool too - but back then the greenland (owner of this TLD) charged $50/yr + the only way you can register is by sending them a FAX. So I didn't bother. I am actually good at picking decent domain names even today.
- anoncow 13y ago
  Thank you.