How I Accidentally Made My Link Shortener into a Malware Honeypot

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  • YOURLS

    🔗 The de facto standard self hosted URL shortener in PHP

  • A couple years ago a client asked me for their own URL shortener service. I found YOURLS (https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS) and reluctantly installed it on a cheap, shared, hosting account.

    Thankfully after a couple years, I convinced them (it took several tries) to use a 3rd party hosted provider.

    Bullet dodged.

  • list

    The Public Suffix List

  • I just made up `blogger.com` as an example. I probably could have picked a better one. `blogspot.com` & its many TLD variations are on the list.

    It looks like the repo where the list is maintained [1] is pretty active. YMMV, I'm not a maintainer or anything..

    [1] https://github.com/publicsuffix/list

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