Steve Rubel asks Could a Billion TinyURLs Go 404?

November 19th, 2007   Tagged ,
Posted in Links, Web Development  

On his Blog Micro Persuation Steve Rubel asks an important question. I think we need resolvers like this to solve the problem:

http://purl.oclc.org/RSSLOOP/test/

http://purl.rssloop.com/RSSLOOP/test/

where purl.oclc.org and purl.rssloop.com are resolvers for /RSSLOOP/test/. Your browser will have to know what purl resolvers are but this is not hard to do. So even if rssloop.com is sold all links can be moved to a new domain without a problem. Just tell the resolvers where /RSSLOOP/test/ than has to point to .

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  1. Broerse Blog » Blog Archive » Tweetl Beta on November 28th, 2007 12:55 am

    [...] Tweetl creates short Urls for twitter. It doesn’t solve the problems we had with the tinyURL outage mentioned here. [...]

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