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GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

You can make QR codes that copy text to a clipboard right? Can’t you just make it a DOI search term? Or pay $2/yr for a redirect domain that you can point to where you want later

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mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Sure, but that $2/yr company goes out of business after 10 years and the QR code stops working.

I guess making the number just copy into your clipboard would be a decent option, but you can also just copy/paste text from images now, so why go through the trouble of QR coding it when that only makes sense to a computer?

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- LostAndSmelly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Even if your registrar goes out of business ICANN will help you restore the domain with a new registrar.
  
  Source it happened to one of my customers.
  
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- qaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  A numerical .xyz domain costs less than a dollar a year and you can make as many links as you want.
  
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  - Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It costs less than a dollar for the first year. After that, who knows.
    
    The plain text is much more reliable than any url.
    
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    qaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    Use the search tool below to innovate on the affordable class of .xyz domains made up of 1.111 billion possible 6-digit, 7-digit, 8-digit, and 9-digit numeric combinations, between ‘000000.xyz’ through ‘999999999.xyz,’ now 99¢ per year, every year.
    
    This is from the registrar itself.
    
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Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Where are you getting domains for $2 per year?

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- Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Namecheap xyz domains are less than $3 after tax for the first year. Subsequent years are around $10.
  
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  - Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    That’s not really $2 per year. Info domains used to be dirt cheap, but even those are pretty expensive after the first year now.
    
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    GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    You can get word-vomit domains that are made for QR/imbedded links. No human is typing those out and they do nothing for SEO, so they’re a pittance.
    
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- emhl@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  .xyz Domains that are just numbers are $1 per year. and netcup has a deal a few times a year that prices .de domains at 1,30€ per year.
  
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