diff --git a/roles/paste/files/class_urlshort_dagd.php b/roles/paste/files/class_urlshort_dagd.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..48b0fd8add
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/paste/files/class_urlshort_dagd.php
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<?php
+/**
+* Sticky Notes pastebin
+* @ver 0.3
+* @license BSD License - www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
+*
+* Copyright (c) 2012 Sayak Banerjee <sayakb@kde.org>
+* Copyright (c) 2013 Athmane Madjoudj <athmane@fedoraproject.org>
+* All rights reserved. Do not remove this copyright notice.
+*/
+
+/**
+ * URL shortener using ur1.ca from Indenti.ca
+ **/
+class URLShortener
+{
+    public function shorten($long_url)
+    {
+        if(preg_match('/^http(s)?:\/\/(.+).fedoraproject.org\/(\d+)\/(\d+)\/$/', $long_url)) {
+            return $long_url;
+        }
+        $ch = curl_init();
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://da.gd/s");
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query(array('url' => $long_url)));
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 2);
+        $result = curl_exec($ch);
+        curl_close($ch);
+        if (!empty($result))
+            return $result;
+        else
+            return false;
+
+    }
+}
+
+?>
diff --git a/roles/paste/tasks/main.yml b/roles/paste/tasks/main.yml
index 931b61b52f..3dbdcfa395 100644
--- a/roles/paste/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/paste/tasks/main.yml
@@ -41,8 +41,15 @@
 
 - name: timeout in case url.ca goes down
   copy: src=class_urlshort.php dest=/usr/share/sticky-notes/classes/class_urlshort.php owner=root group=root mode=644
+  when: env != 'staging'
   notify: reload httpd
 
+- name: timeout in case url.ca goes down (with da.gd patch)
+  copy: src=class_urlshort.php dest=/usr/share/sticky-notes/classes/class_urlshort_dagd.php owner=root group=root mode=644
+  when: env == 'staging'
+  notify: reload httpd
+
+
 - name: set sebooleans so paste can talk to the db
   seboolean: name=httpd_can_network_connect_db state=true persistent=true