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The entire point of having a domain "name" is to have a human-readable representation of an address. Take the human readable part out of the URL and you're left with useless.


This is why it makes more sense to run your own URL shortener, and make it discoverable using a pattern like rev:canonical:

http://sites.google.com/a/snaplog.com/wiki/short_url


Because:

  http://milkandcookies.net/2008/07/12/?lang=en_US&cntry=US&source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3D123%26lang%3Den-US&geoloc=-45.001,-53.175
is pretty readable and useful!


I'm not sure if you're trying to make a point here but yes, that is pretty readable and useful.


This is an excellent point.




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