URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the...

TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service...

automatically redirected to wikipedia.org. URL redirection is done for various reasons: for URL shortening; to prevent broken links when web pages are...

Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New...

URLs, to be easier to type and remember. Most modern blogging and content-syndication software systems support such links. Sometimes URL shortening is...

taken-by=username URL parameter. Information architecture Permalink Persistent uniform resource locator (PURL) URL normalization URL redirection URL shortening HTTP...

Phishing – Form of social engineering Slopsquatting – Type of cybersquatting URL shortening – Web technique Claes, Bell (August 17, 2015). "'Typosquatting': How...

Google URL Shortener, also known as goo.gl, is a URL shortening service owned by Google. It was launched in December 2009, initially used for Google Toolbar...

cases URL shortening isn't needed: "Before looking for alternative URL shortening solutions, you may want to consider if you need a short URL at all...

embedding the attack payload fully inside the address bar, and hosted via URL shortening services rather than needing a full website that is controlled by a...

redirectors, pastebins, base domains from which to delegate subdomains and URL shortening services. On November 23, 1992, inter.net was registered. In the 1990s...

secondary market, the result of the domain name speculation. Many popular URL shortening services are registered in the .ly domain, such as bit.ly (formerly...

government since 2003. YouTube uses the domain hack youtu.be for their URL shortening service. "Statistics | DNS Belgium". DNS Belgium. 2022-12-10. Archived...

domain names. A popular use for the domain is for news organizations for URL shortening purposes, mainly suffixed as "(organization name)ne.ws". Google Search...

dispute resolution services. .gs is a common domain for URL shortening services or general URL shortening. Examples of use include: brook.gs (Brookings Institution)...

used for configuration of website-access issues, such as URL redirection, URL shortening, access control (for different web pages and files), and more...

took place in early 2008. In March 2009, StumbleUpon launched Su.pr, a URL shortening service, primarily to link to Twitter and Facebook statuses and updates...

Web .google, a Google-operated internet top-level domain goo.gl, a URL shortening service Alphabet Inc., Google's holding company which trades as "GOOG"...

and share images and videos on the Internet. The idea was similar to URL shortening, in that each uploaded image was given a relatively short internet address...

blogging activity entirely to Posterous. Posterous also had its own URL shortening service, which as of March 2010 could post to Twitter. Posterous allowed...

dated 20070129040306. Not directly linkable due to the URL blacklist prohibiting URL shortening. van Zanten, Boris Veldhuijzen (February 10, 2008). "'Warp'...

the future: Google Fit API – Will become deprecated. Google URL Shortener – URL shortening service. Started to turn down support on March 30, 2018, was...

Identifier (DOI) Handle System identifiers Link rot OPAC Permalink URL redirection URL shortening Uniform Resource Name (URN) Wayback Machine Services as URN...

that spell words ending in st, such as toa.st or ho.st. It is used for URL shortening domains like The Washington Post's wapo.st, and PlayStation's play.st...

Experian, C-SPAN, happn, and Groupon, each of whom use the domain for URL shortening services. Subdomains under various two-letter .pn domains were offered...

preposition, it became popular to craft memorable URLs called domain hacks that take advantage of this; URL shortening/redirection services and torrent aggregators...

Domain name Current user Usage 0.email Zero Email a.co Amazon.com URL shortener for Amazon, generally used by Amazon in SMS messages for informing purchasers...

additional features such as Open Document Format (ODF) capability, URL shortening services and direct sharing of files to Twitter. On August 14, 2012...

Metcalfe launched a URL shortening service with the domain name vb.ly, which was described as "the Internet's first and only sex-positive URL shortener." The...

2025. Foley, Mary Jo (17 April 2012). "Microsoft adds ODF support, URL shortening to its SkyDrive storage service". ZDNet. Archived from the original...