Nate True's Weblog http://cre.ations.net/$base_path Thoughts and musings from Nate True, casual inventor."; en-us Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:32:47 -0500 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:32:47 -0500 custom http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[New service: QLNK.net]]> So lately I've been somewhat unsatisfied with URL tiny-ifying services such as TinyURL and URLTea, and decided that it was about time I made my own.

I wanted to do something a little different, so thus was birthed QLNK - named because it was a short-ish domain name that I found and registered.

The basic deal is the same - head over to http://qlnk.net with your long URL, and it will spit out a short URL for your linking pleasure.

The difference, though, is that the unique part goes at the beginning. For example, a link to my blog is http://re.qlnk.net - so it's technically a subdomain rather than a path.

Additionally, if you feel like it, you can claim a custom subdomain, with as many dots in it as you like. For example, you could claim this.is.a.test.qlnk.net just by going to it. If it's free, you can...

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]]> So lately I've been somewhat unsatisfied with URL tiny-ifying services such as TinyURL and URLTea, and decided that it was about time I made my own.

I wanted to do something a little different, so thus was birthed QLNK - named because it was a short-ish domain name that I found and registered.

The basic deal is the same - head over to http://qlnk.net with your long URL, and it will spit out a short URL for your linking pleasure.

The difference, though, is that the unique part goes at the beginning. For example, a link to my blog is http://re.qlnk.net - so it's technically a subdomain rather than a path.

Additionally, if you feel like it, you can claim a custom subdomain, with as many dots in it as you like. For example, you could claim this.is.a.test.qlnk.net just by going to it. If it's free, you can...

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]]> http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/new-service http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/new-service qlnk, tinyurl, url shortener, pleo fell over, service Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:41:53 -0600