@simonwoods I would need to check the hyphenated Whois, but it does not resolve; the first shouldn’t have had the space 🙃
@cn Ha! Hmmm it's all yours. I can't break the TIL acronym... I would forever stare at just how wrong it is. 🤪
@simonwoods I favor a today-i-learned domain; tilmb seems like a random collection of letters (I know it’s related to TIL twitter account, but not knowing that, I’d’ve had no idea).
@cn Turns Out the meeting was in us all along.
@Gabz @smokey Yep. I prefer short URLs personally but the 'descriptive' quality does disappear. Hm... wonder if the short URL could work as a manual shortener, for certain links; for example:
You can see Guides at
tilmb.net/guides
... whilst the longer one will be used for where the website ID needs to be as obvious as possible. So I would use both? 🤔
@Bruce Ha! I'm gonna be that guy and say, funnily enough yes: <https://🕸💍.ws>
@simonwoods @Bruce I think we got emoji for free when IDNs came along in the aughts (but, boy, the homograph exclusion rules must be a nightmare).
I assume the URL parser requires ASCII (and thus punycode for IDNs) URLs to work….
@simonwoods The shortener idea is a good one, if you’re going to need short URLs often (and owning one’s own shortener is good practice if one expects the content in which the shortened URL is included to have a long life)….
@smokey It's on my to-do list. At the very least it'll be a constructive project, as part of a larger ambition.