On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Juergen Fenn schneeschmelze@googlemail.com wrote:
2012/11/17 MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com:
I'm not sure I'd say wi.ki is off the table... aside from a domain donation, the Wikimedia Foundation now has an annual budget of somewhere around $30 million, I think. If it wanted to drop a few thousand dollars to buy a shorter domain name, I think it could afford to. The question has become whether doing so is a good idea. :-)
You must be joking. There is http://ur1.ca/ as a free URL shortener already as a Free service. We should use it and please forget about spending too much money on such "cool" URLs...
It's not a matter of "cool urls". Like we don't rely on third parties for other critical services, we shouldn't for a shortener either. URLs shouldn't change and shouldn't die. If that third party resource goes away we'd have a ton of shortened links dead.
Finding a cool, short, url is part of the process of setting up a shortener. Why not suggest some alternatives?
- Ryan