profile.to/bomega
Tue, Sep 18, 2007
In 1997 I started a company called V3 Redirect Services with Eric Visser and Hans Poul Veldhuyzen van Zanten. We bought domainnames in Tonga like come.to, surf.to and go.to and offered people free short urls like http://come.to/boris which we would redirect to their homepages.
We sold that company in 1999 and after that I saw the market for redirect companies decline. I figured that since domain names are so cheap now there wouldn’t be a any demand for these services anymore.
But it seems I was wrong. I just noticed (on the Digital Biographers page) that there is a Facebook App that offers the ‘Profile.to’ domain to shorten your Facebook address. My proile url is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=524032773 which is impossible to remember. So I changed it into http://profile.to/bomega which is easy to remember.
If you have a Facebook profile get your short url here:
http://apps.facebook.com/profiles/
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When i saw your invite for this i thought it was very ironic because of the .to domain.
This reminds me of services like the internet address book where you can get a free john.smith.name domain which you can use as an openID. I wonder where this is going. I hope one day i can type Bram in the browser address bar and get directed to my site. Well, if there’s still something left like an address bar.
also FON came up with their fon.gs (which in the meantime also being used for spam)…