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TinyURL got custom aliases

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by
Antonio Ognio
on July 25, 2008
in Geeky stuff and Web
. 1 Comment

I’ve just realized TinyURL got custom aliases, that is, you can customize the part of the URL beyond their domain to point to the desired URL. I like it. I had that idea myself some time ago. So now http://tinyurl.com/gnrfan redirects to this blog. Pretty neat, huh? The only problem, in this specific case it’s I’ve got a 17 characters url shortened to 25 :)

It looks like not all words are available. When I tried to point to the RIAA homepage using the custom alias “suckers” I got a message telling me that custom alias is not available and no, it’s not somebody grabbed it before. Seems fair.

What are you waiting for? Go grab your custom alias now!