Has Anyone Used Po.st?

[goodgoalie]

I'm trying to get on to www.tgr.ph/taste-of-australia, but when I click on it I get re-directed to po.st, which seems to be some sort of web-hosting site, and I grind to a halt. Is there any way of accessing the above site without joining po.st?

[Fitzer]

How do you know of the original site you are attempting to access, if you are getting redirected to a hosting site it would suggest that the original no longer exists/redirection has failed. However, PO.ST doesn’t appear to be a host but some sort of analytics/address shortening hybrid so it all looks rather odd.

[goodgoalie]

Hi Fitzer, it's a holiday competition in today's Telegraph, and says: to enter the competition, visit tgr.ph/taste-of-australia

[mushroom25]

the link was posted 12m ago today, and the competition closed on the 5th February this year. the link is probably "dead" and unreachable for that reason.

[Fitzer]

Well that’s odd, I assume someone has slipped up somewhere. Quite difficult to search on TGR.PH as they all take you to po.st, quite why the Telegraph are hosting competitions out of the Philippines we can only guess. Which section of the paper, I normally only read the main and the Saturday section. Maybe an email to them to point out that it doesn’t seem to be working, these things can go awry all too easily. Good luck

[Buenchico]

Po.st provides a link-shortening service, similar to those often used by ABers, such Tinyurl and Bitly. However it includes 'custom URLs', so that a user can make the first part of their chosen URL look like their company name (for example). So the people at The Telegraph have chosen to use 'tgr.ph' as their 'virtual domain':
https://www.po.st/shortener/vanity-urls

However something seems to have got a bit mixed up somewhere along the line, as the particular vanity URL you've referred to was designed to redirect to an entry page for a competition which closed ages ago:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/taste-of-australia/competition-terms-and-conditions/