How does the http://to./ domain work?

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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?

Didn't the tweet also link directly to SF: http://serverfault.com/questions/90737/how-the-heck-is-http-to-a-valid-domain-name ? — random, Dec 07 '09 at 07:08
This was asked last week - me and John T both posted answers but I can't seem to find the question anywhere :S Looks like it has vanished — William Hilsum, Dec 07 '09 at 07:30
Dupe: http://superuser.com/questions/78408/how-does-http-to-work/ — random, Dec 07 '09 at 07:37
The tweet did not link directly to the SF question but his next tweet 12 minutes later absolutely did. — Travis, Dec 07 '09 at 17:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 07 '09 at 07:31

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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.

answered Dec 07 '09 at 07:31

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s/clever/plain/ – wnrph Dec 05 '11 at 00:43

How does the http://to./ domain work?

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