Word Press Starts Its Own Shorting URL, Using The ONLY 2 Letter .ME In The World

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WordPress (This blog is published on Word Press) has launched its own URL shorting service and picked a .me to do the trick.

WP.me is designed to allow bloggers to link your blog posts to Twitter.

It isn’t a general purpose URL shortener or rival to Bit.ly: it’s just for those on WordPress.com.

WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said on his Word Press Blog:

WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world.

Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now.

These are all exposed in the using rel=shortlink.

It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones.

The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around.

WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com.

So bloggers how do you use this?

“There is now a “Get Shortlink” button next to your permalink when you edit or write a post, and when you click it you’ll get a popup with the beautiful link already highlighted for your copy and pasting pleasure.”

“If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar.”

How did Word Press get the only 2 letter .me in the world?

Matt says on this blog:

“Our thanks also go out to our friends at GoDaddy and in Montenegro for help with the domain.”

Sounds like they gave it to him.

Nice move by Godaddy to issue this 2 letter .ME to such a good cause instead of auctioning off to the highest bidder.

Filed Under: .ME

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  2. Chris says

    This is definitely good publicity for the .me extension…

    To my knowledge, the shortener is limited to wordpress hosted blogs only (wordpress.com) not the self hosted version (wordpress.org). If you’re looking for a good shortener in the meantime, try the pretty link plugin.

    Chris Lopez, Jr.

  4. mwzd says

    Smart move by GoDaddy.

    I think the publicity this will give .me will be worth a ton more than anyone would have bought that domain for, even in auction, along with the 675 other combos.

    Though maybe they should have asked for to.me 😉

  5. John says

    This is pretty amazing. The .me domains have opened a great opportunity for new businesses.

    WordPress is genius because this is great use of the .me domain.

    – I was just linking in to share info about mybusinessand.me