Custom wp.me shortlink address?

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  dailyanalogy · Member · Nov 23, 2010 at 4:55 am

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  Hello, I’ve noticed that the wp.me shortlinks I receive all have the same first five characters. I wonder if WordPress has permanently assigned those five characters to my blog. If so, is there any way to choose which five characters I’d like to use, once for all posts? That would help the shortlinks identify my blog. Could more than five characters be used; perhaps seven? Thanks.

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 23, 2010 at 5:48 am

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  Questions you never thought to ask about short URL links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening

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  dailyanalogy · Member · Nov 23, 2010 at 3:02 pm

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  Here’s an example of what I’m asking. For two of my posts, WordPress assigned these shortlinks:

  http://wp.me/pCkoz-4
  http://wp.me/pCkoz-a

  The character at the end changes, acting as an index to a unique post. The pCkoz- part is the same on both, so I wonder if that string has been assigned to my blog. If so, could I customize that string to:

  http://wp.me/Analogy4

  Again, the 4 is a variable, but the “Analogy” is a constant. This would make a nice premium service.

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  airodyssey · Member · Nov 23, 2010 at 3:09 pm

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  Suggest it to staff then :-)

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