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Old 20-08-2005, 14:00   #1 (permalink)
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I was thinking about making a URL shortener site, and i'd like to see if people think it is a good idea. What do you think about the idea?
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I made one, www.dusturl.com Works good but tinyurl rules all unless you got xxxx for an advertising campaign.

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yeah people love anythign these day (in the free domain area) i was gogin to do one aswell actually i think i might od it again now, anyway do you know how you can create your own extensions? like www.yourdomain.rman
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You cant do that, thats ICANNS department, latest domain extention under criticism from bush, .xxx, if you have a lot of $XXXX to spend Random, you may be able to get your own ext
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my budgets in teh ?xx range(for my entire web field) no so domain for me,well no extension anyway, i should be getting a domain in the next week or so
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i'm going to be making a URL redirect site soon as i got the the domain p2g.org which is very short so good for a short url service
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How about a free domains site under a very short domain?
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what do yuo mean i dont understand you
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Buy a short domain and give free subdomains like uni.cc or cbj.net
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