As you might have noticed since the last few days, omniurl.tk have stopped working and now redirect to a parked domain page. Although Netham45 is unsure why this happened, it is possible that it violated Dot.tk TOS. One year ago, OmniURL went down completely once because it was against Dot.tk rules to use their domain name service for a redirect page or URL shortener and the root of ourl.ca needed an actual website as content. I guess this was the trade-off for offering the service for free, but now thanks to Juju (and his Canadian citizenship), Omnimaga now has an even shorter URL shorterner: OURL. The URL is ourl.ca and it works exactly the same as the other one, although it is now hosted directly on Omnimaga server.

As with OmniURL, the syntax for OURL is the following:

-Post: http://ourl.ca/5221/87910 (Topic ID/Post ID)
-Attachment: http://ourl.ca/a/5232/4376 (a/Topic ID/File ID)
-File info page: http://ourl.ca/f/591 (f/Download ID)
-File download: http://ourl.ca/d/591 (d/Download ID)

There is a bug, though: http://ourl.ca no longer forwards directly to the site front page, but rather a page with only OmnomIRC on it. Besides that, the only difference is the URL name, which sounds like someone throwing up, if pronounced in French.

Also, on the forums, OmniURL links are now censored to OURL ones, to avoid old links from breaking.

Pretty cool
Now to hope .ca sites aren't blocked at school like .tk's..

Edit: could it be possible to have it link to more things, ie ezportal pages or boards?

like..
http://ourl.ca/e/25
http://ourl.ca/b/71

Afaict there's still the same extensions (some at least), like /en links to irclogs and /r-en links to the english rules.

That's one thing I'm proud to be Canadian. Get .ca domains for a decent price. ^_^

Quote from: DJ_O on May 13, 2012, 12:10:46 am

As you might have noticed since the last few days, ourl.ca have stopped working and now redirect to a parked domain page. Although Netham45 is unsure why this happened, it is possible that it violated Dot.tk TOS...

I'm pretty sure you mean ourl.ca

You mean omniurl‌.tk The old domain's being censored to the new one.

Quote from: alberthrocks on May 13, 2012, 02:07:37 pm

Quote from: DJ_O on May 13, 2012, 12:10:46 am

As you might have noticed since the last few days, ourl.ca have stopped working and now redirect to a parked domain page. Although Netham45 is unsure why this happened, it is possible that it violated Dot.tk TOS...

I'm pretty sure you mean ourl.ca

You mean omniurl‌.tk The old domain's being censored to the new one.

I'll have to find ways to bypass word filters, it seems

Also, a plus for switching to OURL: now my school won't block me! (*.tk is blocked, probably because it's associated with bad, evil websites )

Yeah, that's pretty much the same for everything that offers free domains (.tk, .co.cc, name it), spammers will register zillions of them in bulk (cuz it's free) and use them to spam.

That's kinda why domain names are paid and have certain restrictions depending of the TLD, they want to make sure the DNS system will be used for good by legit people, or else everything gets blocked because the number of spam registrations outnumbers the number of legit registrations.

Well... it's not to say that spam domains aren't registered en masse either. For instance, there's this website that I went to for investigating how much GoDaddy is losing (the SOPA scandal), and there were a lot of gibberish domains being registered on GoDaddy (like afaklfwiorthqiaoghaio.com). But as always, the majority (I hope ) is legit, so there's no reason to block.