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List of Japanese words for domains

Posted on 29. Jul, 2010 Tagged domain name, domains, japanese, tld, top level domain, web

This is a list of Japanese words which end in characters that match popular top level domains. Use this list to find cool romanized Japanese domain names like omoi.de or edama.me.

The data comes from my edict-sql database which pulls it's data from Jim Breen's EDICT Dictionary File and is used within the terms of the EDRDG license.

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02 Feb

How the "to." URL shortener works

Tagged dns, domain, fqdn, networking, networking security, tld, url shortener

to URL imageMy friend Paul tweeted about a new URL shortener like bit.ly and is.gd but with one major difference.  The domain for this shortener is only 2 letters "t-o" and they're not separated by a dot.  The link to the shortener was posted as http://to./ which appears to be an invalid link since it has no top level domain (com, net, org etc.) but low and behold, it worked.

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