tinyurl.com

[mark]

ran across this today in another forum. useful tool for compressing long url's into short ones. the site claims 185 MILLION HITS per month. wow!!! wish it was mine.............

 

[Jonathan]

tinyurl.com is longer than.. owtf.com

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

tinyurl.com is longer than.. owtf.com

Referrer.com provide subdomains service.

 

[mike031]

free sub-domain url forwarding is soooo 1999.. they used to be popular a while ago, i mean.. who uses this things this days?!

 

[Gee]

i tried it and they gave me this wonderful short easy url

http://tinyurl.com/ct3yj :huh:

 

[RTM.net]

free sub-domain url forwarding is soooo 1999.. they used to be popular a while ago, i mean.. who uses this things this days?!

People who simply can't afford domains... or people who want to hide links to affiliate programs... etc.

Rob

P.S. I can certainly believe that tinyurl.com gets 185M hits per month.... they've been around a while, and they are one of the original sites offering URL redirections services.

 

[mike031]

tinyurl.com was regged in 2002.. free url forwarding services were really really hot pre-2000 and maybe a year or two later as well... i never even heard of this place upto today, but anyway.. it is still quiet an accomplishment, their alexa ranking has almost tripled within the past 6 months or so for some reason.. which is odd

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

P.S. I can certainly believe that tinyurl.com gets 185M hits per month.... they've been around a while, and they are one of the original sites offering URL redirections services.

In asia, this is common especially in universities. The value of registering domain names still not affordable. The forwarding service will stay there.

Cheers.

 

[mark]

free sub-domain url forwarding is soooo 1999.. they used to be popular a while ago, i mean.. who uses this things this days?!

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mike: obviously a lot of people even if you assume their hit count is only a tenth of what they claim. in the other forum i ran across people were suggesting its useage primarily to post links to news articles instead of having for example: www.newyorktimes.com/todaysnews/article518954/johnson/13456/04150
or something similiar you can post a much shorter url which obviously gets you to the same place.

 

[mike031]

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mike: obviously a lot of people even if you assume their hit count is only a tenth of what they claim. in the other forum i ran across people were suggesting its useage primarily to post links to news articles instead of having for example: www.newyorktimes.com/todaysnews/article518954/johnson/13456/04150
or something similiar you can post a much shorter url which obviously gets you to the same place.

yea, i know :smartass:

years ago people fell in love with this because it did save a lot of time.. but this days it is easy as 1-2-3 to simply link somebody to whatever url by simply dragging the url/window to wherever you are sending the link to via a messanger program, email, etc.. i guess there is a lot of "old schoolers" who rather do it this way or are unaware of how to manually create a link... but hey, whatever works for ya.. great...

 

[ceo]

The MAIN use of the prog. is to shorten a url.
That's where tinyurl, snipurl etc... came into play & why they were late in the game.
Aff. marketers and email newsletter owners make optimum use of these services for reasons to hide actual URL and to shorten the URL in an email msg....

 

[Mr. DeletedMr. Deleted is verified member.]

I've used www.nip.net before to hide aff links

also check out freedns.afraid.org - they also do url redirects on your own domains. I have a lot of my names there, but you can have 5 yourname.afraid.org (or whatever they have in their system) for a free account.

 

[NavySeals91]

I never really used tinyurl.com but they can come in handy when someone sends a huge link to you, but that is simply ruled out these days.

 

[kodeking]

owtf.com doesn't work correctly. Put http://www.yourdomain.com/file1.html in the box and hit make url. Then go back and enter http://www.yourdomain.com/file2.html in the box and hit make url. The two urls it makes are the same....

 

[Jonathan]

owtf.com doesn't work correctly. Put http://www.yourdomain.com/file1.html in the box and hit make url. Then go back and enter http://www.yourdomain.com/file2.html in the box and hit make url. The two urls it makes are the same....

The random characters have already been generated when you load the first page. So it creates the short url using the first link you provided. If you hit back and attempt to do it again, it won't replace the original short url.

But you knew this - you're the kode king.

 

[RTM.net]

Taking this URL shortening site topic on a shear... I have always been concerned that they would do something like swap PID or affiliate links ... (to their own) ... that would be majorly evil, and I think that they would have been caught by now...

But who knows..

Rob