After I wrote 'is this the shortest URL ever?', Nic Chilton says he has registered 'http://nboat.tk'.
How short can a canal boat address get?
You could try checkdomain.com, which will tell you which letters relate to which countries. (TK is Turkmenistan, a shady extension by my reckoning). There's no country ending in '.nb'.
But, of course, length doesn't count as much as thickness. What's needed isn't brevity but sense.
If you want a short domain for your boat, try the boat's registration number. Granny Buttons is 54363. Strangely, 54363.com was registered only a few months ago and I've missed out. And the '.co.uk' extension is a bit too long-winded.
I registered grannybuttons.com nearly ten years ago. Don't expect narrowboat.com or kingfisher.co.uk to be still available.
But you might find your boat number is still free.
Next headline
"Granny forgets to check his facts" ;-)
from http://dot.tk
The TK domain is "Tokelau, a country in the South Pacific"
True no .nb, just
# .na – Namibia
# .nc – New Caledonia
Posted by: Nic Chilton | Sunday, 24 August 2008 at 12:00 AM