Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds your secrets

Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by lucb1e on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:42PM (#16620787)

Not true. I know bitly and googl have those info pages, so I'll check them out when I am curious but am not sure whether I want to alert whereever it leads. I know I'll get more info at best, and don't lose anything at worst. For random URLs, I guess I could try whois lookups, but I'd be much more likely to just check it out than with a short URL which is easily checked out.

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by jstanley on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:54PM (#16620981)

I think you missed my point.

If seeing that the bit.ly URL redirects to a known-urlcanary domain would put you off visiting the URL, then seeing the raw known-urlcanary domain (not behind bit.ly) would also be enough to put you off visiting it.

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by lucb1e on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:25PM (#16622171)

Ah, yes, if that is the alternative, then of course. I thought it was between some shortened link and an unknown domain.

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by e40 on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:28PM (#16622206)

So, doesn't this mean you need to have a bunch of domains, none of which look like urlcanary domains? If you hide behind something like namecheap's whoisguard (customer, not affiliated with them), that would do the trick, right?

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