Hi!
Hi there, may I ask what link shorteners provide you that w3id does not? Eg baked in metrics or 10char urls? Just curious why you would want to reimplement.
From what I can see, the target audience of w3id is a relatively small
set of very stable URL prefixes that are used a lot and never change. It also does not aim at making these URLs shorter, it aims at making them stable. Adding URL namespace to it is a manual process, and individual URLs are not stored.
The target of URL shorteners is much bigger set of URLs, many of which are relatively low-use or transient, but which can be created via automatic means in great volumes, which make URL shorter and which are aimed at storing, at least for a while, each URL as individual data piece.
So, for our purposes w3id would not be very useful.