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date: 2009/03/03 23:12
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slug: BB783
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title: The shortest URL you will find anywhere
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updated: 2009/03/03 23:12
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Following the path of the venerable tinyurl, http://Tinyarro.ws takes advantage of unicode to make things very, very, very short.

For example, this blog's URL would be `http://➡.ws/콢`_

.. _http\://➡.ws/콢: http://➡.ws/콢

As you can see there is a *tiny arrow* (thus the name of the service) and a seemingly korean character.

The domain name is legal, that's just a one-character unicode name, which seems to be legal according to the rules of the ws TLD. Then a unicode path, again just one character.

Since unicode has several thousand glyphs, it is possible that about a trillion URLs could be done using only a 3-letter path, which is pretty awesome.

Of course you probably can't **type** the damn things, but you can copy&paste them.

If any of this doesn't work for you, get on the unicode wagon already!