Introducing the dew.is YOURLS-based URL shortener
Caution: This post contains higher than normal levels of geekery. You’ve been warned.
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If you’ve been around the ‘net for a while, you’ve probably seen cryptic URLs (like http://bit.ly/b36LBg) that “magically” take you to a real URL (like https://gordon.dewis.ca/2010/10/25/municipal-election-day/). This “magic” is thanks to URL shortening services like bit.ly, tinyurl.com, and a whole bunch of others.
Well, a little while ago I noticed that Iceland has the .IS top-level domain. And that my last name ends in “is” (well, I’ve known that for a long time).
€39 later and I’m the proud owner of dew.is.
Cool.
So, now I’ve set up YOURLS and have my own URL shortening service at dew.is.
Very cool. And very geeky.
AKA Keeper of Maps, I'm a geocacher who lives in Ottawa, Canada.
Unfortunately Indonesia doesn’t offer top-level domains, so I can’t register squ.id 🙂
And the Netherland Antilles TLD has some fairly strict rules and steep prices for their domains.
Sheila registered Mendon.ca for a year but we did nothing useful with it….
You could have used it for very personalized email addresses, Lib.