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Park Your Own Subdomain Free at OfNalts.com (who needs TinyURL?) September 4, 2008

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I don’t recall if I’ve ever announced that you can park your own free subdomain (username) at ofnalts.com, which you can “point” at any website or URL. It makes that complex YouTube video URL (or other long URLs) short, simple, memorable and pretty.

I use it in lieu of TinyURL because I can link to my YouTube videos easily inside a Twitter post… and it’s fun to create my own name instead of using a random code on TinyURL. BTW- you can now park a vanity TinyURL name, but most of the good ones are gone. Alan (fallofautumndistro) already snatched tinyurl.com/youtube! And I parked a few YouTube celebrity names, but had them point to other people’s channel pages. Moo haa haaa. Try tinyurl.com/renetto. Or tinyurl.com/spricket24.

This free little OfNalts application was created by Tim Breslin (of Xlntads). Tim saw a lot of YouTube usernames starting with a word and followed by “ofnalts.” This was prompted because I needed an account for Jo and naltswife didn’t look right. So we went with wifeofnalts. Tim Breslin, while we’re on the subject, is the guy I tried to convince to create a multi-site upload tool before there was TubeMogul. But he blew me off.

Insert footage from “It’s a Wonderful LIfe”: Sam Wainright to Jane Bailey: Still got the nose to the old grindstone, eh? Jane, I offered to let George in on the ground floor in plastics, and he turned me down cold!

Where was I? Oh- Here’s how ofnalts works…

You simply go to www.ofnalts.com, and click “register” (ignore the username/password prompt).
Then you put in your username (whatever you want), password twice, and e-mail address. But no worries- you won’t have to wait for a confirmation e-mail.
Next you enter your long URL and hit confirm. Now you own http://yourname.ofnalts.com.
Now your personalized [insert name].ofnalts.com is listed on the bottom of the ofnalts page, and you can use it anywhere to redirect people to the complex URL. Note you don’t use www.

Sounds more complicated than it is. Once you use it once, you’re hooked.

And a subdomain on ofnalts is a lot more charming than the overused tinyurl.

Comments»

1. Viral Video Wannabe - September 4, 2008

Actually, I grabbed http://tinyurl.com/blogtv

tinyurl.com/youtube was already snatched by youtube. =)

2. sukatra - September 4, 2008

I know there’s a money angle in here somewhere, I just can’t figure out where.

3. Michelle *Potter* - September 4, 2008

what an awesome idea!
I think I might just use it.
Hermioneofnalts = me?

It’s not working. Does it need time to process?

4. Michelle *Potter* - September 4, 2008

ahhhhhhhh it worked!
I love this so much, my username
phonetically” kitten to cat one two three four five” doesn’t roll off the tonge when i have to add that kitten only has 1 t becuase i typoed it and the middle to is a number two
kiten2cat12345

But not I’m hermione of nalts!
I love this so much. Nalts, adopt me?

5. Peter Coffin - September 4, 2008

http://bettervideosthanthevideos.ofnalts.com/

You really need to make a “Roast of Nalts” YouTube channel and get people to make videos insulting you, Naltsy. It’s so fun to do and none of us actually hate you.

…at least not enough to be pissed when you take the partner revenue from youtube.com/roastofnalts channel.

6. somecallmejim - September 4, 2008

http://lobster.ofnalts.com has been deployed.

Oh, here’s the paycheck.ofnalts.com

And the inspiration.ofnalts.com

Of course, all of this is courtesy of the wastedbandwidth.ofnalts.com

Cheers!

7. somecallmejim - September 4, 2008

@5. I love that idea! I’d do one. Maybe 12.

8. sukatra - September 4, 2008

now I wanna come up with a funnier one than yours, and i don’t think that’s possible.

9. NutCheese - September 4, 2008

Did Mr.Safety already get Feltcherofnalts?

10. somecallmejim - September 4, 2008

Okay, it was fun at first, but when I realized that on this site, of all places, nobody took the time to create http://cheese.ofnalts.com , frankly I was disappointed, so much so that I had to express that disappointment in the only way I knew how.

Ah, the things I will one day regret.

11. somecallmejim - September 5, 2008

^Had to change the link. It was just too disturbing before!

12. somecallmejim - September 5, 2008

Okay, one more, but just because I can.

http://nearlyasexploitedasthechildren.ofnalts.com/

13. Marilyn - September 6, 2008

I already have “FanClubofNalts”, but I didn’t set it up correctly. I should have named it “FanClub.ofnalts.com”, instead of “FanClubofNalt.ofnalts.com” Maybe I’ll try making a new one. Although I haven’t uploaded a video to that channel since the NAPPY days.

14. Tomboys - September 7, 2008