Comments on: A Better, More Productive, Short URL

By: jon

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:40:35 +0000

so, what happened to urltea.com ? issue with scalability (looks like it was hosted on dreamhost)? would love to see a writeup, if only brief, on the situation?

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By: Adrian Buerki

Thu, 17 May 2007 16:49:30 +0000

Check out http://traceurl.com

There you can choose the prefix of the generated URL. Thus the short URLs don’t look that cryptic. On top of that you can monitor accesses to the URL, meaning count accesses and see where the visitors come from.

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By: Cloudy Thinking » Blog Archive » Brett Taylor’s UrlTea — Short URLs

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:14:45 +0000

[…] by Brett Tayor translates long, tedious URLs to make them shorter. It’s similar to TinyUrl, but slicker and […]

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By: Brett

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:54:44 +0000

@chris: I see the issue you have. Unfortunately, where urlTea is (currently) hosted, we can’t do a solution like : http://1e3.urltea.com or http://1e3.link.urltea.com/ … but it’s a good idea and we’ll keep it in mind 🙂

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By: Rob

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:47:28 +0000

Chris, this service is great! I’ve added the link to my tool bar and plan to use it. But the one thing I was really wanting to use it for was mp3 files on my site (class teachings from our church). We have teaching files we send out the link for to those who miss class, but we don’t post it on the web site. I like to obscure the actual URL. But when I use urlTea to link to an mp3 file, a page loads but I guess FireFox doesn’t know it’s an mp3? In any case, it will not open up an external player or give me an option to save the file. Any suggestions?

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By: Chris

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:38:25 +0000

Good idea, Brett. I have a suggestion that would solve a problem for me, and probably others as well. Can you allow short URLs without any “/” characters? I know it is more limiting, but something like “NXN.urltea.com” would be very useful. Here’s why.

I use GoDaddy’s DNS service and can make most of the changes I need except for one thing (so far). I like to connect my Gmail for Domains sites to my registered domains through an easy to type URL like “mail.domain.com”. The real URL for Gmail is partnerpage.google.com/domain.com. Unfortunately, GoDaddy’s DNS will not accept this as a valid domain. GoDaddy will let me point to any URL as long as I don’t include a slash “/”. I currently use an external DNS manager to accomplish this, but a free solution would be better. Basically, if I could choose what I call a “clean” URL with no slashes using urltea.com, I could type mail.domain.com and get to my domain’s Gmail start page. Thanks for listening.

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By: Andy

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:28:03 +0000

Nice service, the stats feature will be good when it’s done. Shame that urlt.com was not available though

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By: jason

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:41:30 +0000

Can you elaborate on what shortcomings other tinyurl services have? and what the advantages yours has over them? Just wondering!

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