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appsto.re, a niched URL shortener for iphone apps

nospam@example.com (Mark Jeftovic) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:53:51 -0500

The other day I stumbled across http://appsto.re, a DNS client domain which is a pretty useful specialized URL shortener for iPhone apps.

A good example is easyDNS' own iPhone app for easyWhois. The iTunes URL is loooooooooooooong and cumbersome, and to be honest, I can't readily remember what shortened URL I created for it on easyURL (I think maybe http://easyurl.net/easyiphone?)

Well with appsto.re, we know it's simply http://appsto.re/easyWhois, and you can view the info for any given app by using http://appsto.re/info/easyWhois.

You can even create your own custom shortened URLs for any given iPhone app.

The other interesting thing about appsto.re that distinguishes it from most of the other URL shorteners out there, is that it actually has a revenue model, since I imagine they can use affiliate links to redirect to the paid apps (sorry guys, our app is free).

Wango Tango!!! TedNugent.com - are you kidding me?

nospam@example.com (Mark Jeftovic) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:02:58 -0500

One of the things I love about this business is finding out some of the ultra-cool websites who use us for DNS. The first couple years of this business I think I had every domain name on the system memorized, not so much now.

But I found out today that TedNugent.com uses easyDNS nameservers ROCK ON.

I always loved the Motor City Madman....

5 questions for YCombinator's Paul Graham

nospam@example.com (Mark Jeftovic) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:44:00 -0400

When we noticed YCombinator's Paul Graham was an easyDNS member we asked him to help us kick off a new format for the "Who Uses easyDNS" blog channel. Rather than just list off this company or that notable tech personality, we're conducting short interviews with them so we can all get a better idea what our membership is all about.

Paul Graham is a champion of the LISP programming language, a prominent essayist and author of the book Hackers and Painters and a VC who who co-founded the seed-stage funder Y Combinator.

To date Y Combinator has funded 102 start-ups and are currently accepting applications for the winter round of fundings, see http://ycombinator.com/w2009.html

Mark Jeftovic conducted this email interview with Paul Graham over June 2008.

MJ: Are you at all disappointed that the development platform of choice behind the Web 2.0 "explosion" was Ruby on Rails instead of Lisp?

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Xe.com - "World's Favorite Currency FX Site"

nospam@example.com (Mark Jeftovic) — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:50:23 -0400

XE.com is a site I was using for years every time I needed to do a quick currency conversion before I realized they were a member. Nice easy and quick interface which allows me to quickly see the direction of the market across all the major currencies. They also provide data feeds via XML and CSV.

They are currently ranked 546 on Alexa

usable.ca

nospam@example.com (Mark Jeftovic) — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:45:14 -0400

I'm always doing whois lookups all day long for various reasons. Today the concept of "usability" struct me as I was previewing YASBS (Yet Another Social Bookmarking Site) and on a whim (many of the whois lookups I conduct are, in fact, whimsical) I looked up usable.ca and got that warm fuzzy feeling I experience when I look up a seemingly random domain name and see those easyDNS nameservers scrolling past my screen "Aha!" I think to myself "...another customer :)" and then I go check out their website and what they're all about.

So the subject of our inaugural installment of "Who Uses easyDNS" is Usable Interactive Development, a web design and custom applications firm here in Toronto with some clients I recognize like Young and Rubicam, i|money and Grocery Gateway (another easyDNS DNS hosting customer)

Who uses easyDNS?

nospam@example.com (Mark Jeftovic) — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:42:01 -0400

This was an idea we had back at the beginning, a kind of take off on "whois" to show "Who Uses" easyDNS. Only problem at the time was: we didn't have any customers yet.

So with regular frequency, a lot of high-end, relevant, fun or otherwise interesting websites that use us as a registrar or more often, as a DNS hosting provider, come to my attention. We'll start highlighting some of them here.