[05:22] <chronomex> crap
[05:22] <chronomex> http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/19/now-even-the-new-york-times-is-entering-the-url-shortening-arena-kinda/
[05:22] <chronomex> the asshats who put up nyturl.com couldn't afford to even keep the domain for two fucking years
[05:22] <chronomex> (I was looking over the wiki page)
[16:53] <PepsiMax> 'nyturl.com' fucking new york times
[16:54] <soultcer> Well the old nyturl.com was an url shortener. The new one is about lingerie.
[16:54] <soultcer> I like the new one better.
[16:54] <PepsiMax> after 2 years?
[16:55] <PepsiMax> they slipped the payment of the domain?
[16:55] <soultcer> At the beginning with a few big shorteners everyone started to say "Make your own shortener for your own domain, so that when the big shortener fails your URLs still work".
[16:55] <soultcer> It think that was a mistake, we should have let everyone use the big shorteners
[16:57] <PepsiMax> I think Googles one is the stronges
[16:57] <SketchCow> I was sure that was going to work.
[16:57] <SketchCow> Positive
[16:57] <PepsiMax> except it is Google.
[16:57] <SketchCow> I am sad it has not worked out
[16:59] <soultcer> I think techcrunch is right, it was never an official project and now they use nyti.ms (which is based on bit.ly's "build your own shortener" bullshit) and simply decided that they don't need the old one anymore
[17:47] <PepsiMax> http://youtu.be/-2ZTmuX3cog?t=40m37s
[17:47] <PepsiMax> hail to the king