To continue on my rant about “points of failure” on the Internet, it seems that http://urlTea.com isn’t responding anymore. OpenDNS hints that the domain is not registered with DreamHost anymore.

As a commenter mentioned on my old post on the topic, DreamHost has allegedly shut down url(x), though I do not believe they have something against URL services in particular. Most likely, as Alex King pointed out a while back, some of these services do not have a revenue model, and with arguably lots of traffic, they become hard to maintain.

RandomKitty via Alex King