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Best use of subdomains ever? (withdjango.com)
3 points by dugmartin on April 19, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


My friend Paul (one of the authors) just shared this url with me. Anyone have any other examples of subdomains as sentences? I'm just curious.


My online portfolio is hello.my.name.is.[myname].me and I redirect all traffic that does not include this prefix to include it. It's a fun and neat little trick. This way if I give my url to someone I can give the short version and when they type it they are redirected to the longer url.


as yuvadam said above, there's nothing special about this, though. you can do this to any site. for the site above, you can just go to *.withdjango.com.


I could set up i.am.just.curio.us



There's nothing special about this.

This works with any domain that has *.example.com pointing to the right place.


Why?




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