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[Guillaume Parent <gparent AT gparent.org>]

> if you were to create a separate A record for each link, you'd end up at a server,
and with vhosts it would ask you were you think you're going...

Wildcard records won't be different in that regard, but anyway it's trivial to configure a web server so that it serves the same site on more than one domain.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Bjorn Peeters <bjorn AT bjornpeeters.be> wrote:

I even doubt it's technically possible by only using A records for each redirect.

The most simple solution, i suppose, would be to get a tld wildcard in there,
redirecting *.tld to 1 location, and have a script at that location handle content.
if you were to create a separate A record for each link, you'd end up at a server,
and with vhosts it would ask you were you think you're going...

So:
- a tld *dedicated* to short urls
- redirecting everything non-existant to register.tld
- requiring ONLY a link and back-end creating a redirect for it with a short url
- and with an expiration of, say, 3 months?
would be quite interesting and an added value.

but someone will have to check RFC's to see if a wildcard on a tld is allowed (i have my doubts? though .invalid and such do the same iirc)
and someone will have to write the script to handle the wildcards.

On 02/15/2013 07:36 PM, Guillaume Parent wrote:

> Remember: every short url would actually be a domain and would have to have its zone.

I wasn't aware that the RFCs forced you to create zones rather than A records after the TLD. It does change things a bit if that's the case.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Bjorn Peeters <bjorn AT bjornpeeters.be> wrote:

Remember: every short url would actually be a domain and would have to have its zone.
that zone would also have to be announced and propagated...

On 02/15/2013 05:14 PM, Guillaume Parent wrote:

It's not pollution if you make a TLD just for that purpose. It's a service.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Bjorn Peeters <bjorn AT bjornpeeters.be> wrote:

Making shortened urls as domains may be interesting, but it would also pollute the dns?

Interesting and possibly usefull as it may be, there are quite a few details to work out

Hunter 9999 <mail AT hunter-9999.de> wrote:

>Am 15.02.2013 um 10:47 schrieb Simon <simon AT hacknix.net>:
>> On 02/14/13 23:11, Hunter 9999 wrote:
>>> You could use register.url as shortener-service and something like Gw1rk.url as shorted URL.
>>
>> That could work. Putting the hash to the left of the TLD part is an
>> interesting idea.
>
>I thought about that too a few weeks ago. ;-)
>
>> Simon
>
>But I think, to shorten an URL you shouldn't have to register or use your name or email.
>How can we reconcile this with our policies?
>
>Daniel Jäger
>
>
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