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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

A numerical .xyz domain costs less than a dollar a year, and you can make as many redirect links as you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It costs less than a dollar for the first year. After that, who knows.

The plain text is much more reliable than any url.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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 back in 2017.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Where are you getting domains for $2 per year?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Namecheap xyz domains are less than $3 after tax for the first year. Subsequent years are around $10.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months 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.