Apple Begins Using 'iTun.es' As Link Shortener

That's a magical and revolutionary way to save characters.

An itunes link shortener at last!

Decades of research and development in many scientific disciplines has gotten us to this point. It was the dream of many. This is why we have computers.

Can we go any further with scientific achievement? What's the point? If this were a game of civilization, the game would be over and we might play 20 more turns at the most.

They prob saw the post here and said "hey thats a good idea".

Its pretty clever.

I assume Microsoft will respond with a domain from the Hitachi islands and bring out http://zunis.hit/ prefix

So they finally did it? Good move from them IMO.

why didn't they choose www.pi.ng???

Omg! how come no one else thought of this??!

by the way, there's a spanish clothing company called ITUN.

wonder for how much they bought out their domain www.itun.es.

PBF said:

by the way, there's a spanish clothing company called ITUN.

wonder for how much they bought out their domain http://www.itun.es.

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Apple had it since 2006......

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2 like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C134 Safari/6533.18.5)

This is such fantastic news. Where I am right now, it's dark and rainy out. But now, after reading this, it's like Steve Jobs himself has parted the clouds and now the sun is shining bright.

goobot said:

Apple had it since 2006......

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ITUN was founded in 1997. Registered their first domain in 1998. Hence my question: how much did Apple buy out their domain for?

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Saving ink!

PBF said:

ITUN was founded in 1997. Registered their first domain in 1998. Hence my question: how much did Apple buy out their domain for?

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I see. But that doesnt mean they have to have every .somthing. A gaming company named bungie has a website and it is bungie.net, it dosnt have bungie.com or anything. So they could have itun.com

Maybe I'm just a grumpy old contrarian, but the point of a URL was to tell you something. It used to be that you'd know what file you were getting, which company in which country you were getting it from, and have some reasonable idea of where abuts the file existed within the site's organizational structure.

Now you're lucky if you even know what you're downloading.

I dunno why we even bother with DNS anymore. Replace the URL bar with a google box, and users can just type 'cool ****', or 'teh funnyz video' and be entertained by whatever comes back.

Grumble grumble...

goobot said:

I see. But that doesnt mean they have to have every .somthing. A gaming company named bungie has a website and it is bungie.net, it dosnt have bungie.com or anything. So they could have itun.com

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I think the point he was going for was that ITUN is a spanish company and .es is typically used for spanish sites.

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wirelessmacuser said:

I've been using the excellent Google extension.

It's the fastest, just one click in Chrome and it's automatically copied to the clipboard ready to be pasted anywhere.

Check it out: http://goo.gl/PiyX

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Here's a goo.gl URL Shortener for those who are using Apple's browser - Safari:

http://goo.gl/cbk3

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I must be one of the very few who doesn't care about this at all. In my eyes all it does is make any link look fraudulent and I would never click on it for fear of being spammed or phished.

Sl.ow ne.ws d.ay.

Since they are referencing unique SKU's one would think they could reuse the shorteners with a simple lookup algorithem. They aren't adding any additional identifying information to each transaction, are they?

Rocketman

goobot said:

They prob saw the post here and said "hey thats a good idea".

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Correct.

Anyone else notice that it now redirects to iTunes.com instead of Apple.com?

huh?

Did they take it down for something? It worked once and now it doesnt for me.