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Comment 35 by bart.burkhardt, Today (moments ago)

I'm also in the process of launching a URL shortening service.    I really would like to use GAE and I'm really am shocked to see that GAE does not support naked domains!    How can a company like Google just ignore the fact that loads of startups want short URL's to be used in Twitter messages.  It's just totally insane!! A bunch of people must be sleeping, really.    Everyone knows that redirecting from your own provider is not an option, and again it's really bizar to see Google mentioning this as an option, shame on you Google.    The strange thing is that there are already some url shortening services that run on GAE,  like http://ur.ly     Read about this great opensource project here: http://adamstiles.com/2008/07/urly-dang-short-urls-powered-by-google-app-engine/    Please also read this great article: No nudity please, we’re Google (or why you shouldn’t mix naked domains and www on Google App Engine)  http://aralbalkan.com/1425/comment-page-1#comment-258336    Then there’s  http://urlborg.com  another short url service on GAE    All these services probably just added a couple of A-records that point to servers that service ghs.google.com   I could do that do, but as this is not officially supported I find it a bit scary.     Also because ghs.google.com are servers that are load balanced and so, so adding a couple of ip addresses is not what I had in mind to put my short url service in the App Engine cloud.      SO PLEASE GOOGLE, YOU’RE MY FRIEND FOR SO MANY YEARS, WHAT’S GOING ON ? ? ?    HELP  !!!!!