Terence EdenFeb 18, 2023

🆕 blog! “Never use a URL shortening service - even if you own it”

The Guardian launched its online adventures back in 1999. At some point, they started using the name "Guardian Unlimited". Hey, the dot com boom made us all do crazy things! As part of that branding, they proudly used the domain GU.com Over time, the branding faded and GU.…

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Show threadSimon Jones

@Edent agree the Guardian should publish a list of the redirects. Breaking all those published links is not good for the web.

On a project with UK Parliament we took the effort to set up a redirect service when their research briefing site switched to 3 standalone sites. It’s worth preserving URLs.

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