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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

I am.

I picked up the domain, twtr.info, from GoDaddy for 99¢ back in November. Today I configured the DNS settings for twtr.info to be an alias for my Adjix account. I use Adjix to shorten a link before sending it via email or twitter. There are many options for link shortening, but I use Adjix because it offers stats and an option to earn ad-revenue.

Here’s an example:

The shortened URL is better for twitter because it doesn’t require many characters; it is better for emails because long URLs are often split onto multiple lines which can change or break the link.

Adjix is still in the early stages as a start-up, but I’ve seen many improvements over the last 6 months. I look forward to seeing where it goes from here.

2 Comments

  1. David 02.16.09

    Hi Shawn,

    Thanks for the tip on adjix; however, I’m not seeing the advantage of using your twtr domain. Why not use adjix link directly?

  2. shawncampbell 02.16.09

    David – I suppose I’m really only using twtr.info instead of adjix.com or ad.vu because I can. I justify the effort in my own mind, but really I just wanted to see if I could get it to work correctly. I do like twtr better than adjix just because it looks like “twitter” which is where I post most of these links. Also, some firewalls have blocked links with “ad” in the domain so this may be a workaround. Typically, custom domains are used as sub-domains so that your domain remains prominent (e.g. using links.yourdomain.com still uses yourdomain.com rather than a 3rd-party domain such as adjix.com).

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