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How does http://to./ work?

Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) posted a tweet a few days ago, congratulating http://to./ for launching the shortest URL shortener, and breaking every URL matching regex. I was wondering how the heck does this work?

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Basically, someone has put an A record on the top level domain .to so anyone visiting will go to this service.

It is sort of like how in offices, you usually have http://intranet and http://jobs.intranet and more... It is all clever uses of DNS.

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  • s/clever/plain/
    – wnrph
    Dec 5, 2011 at 0:43

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