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2. URL shortening - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening

   Some shortening services, such as goo.gl, tinyurl.com, and bit.ly can generate URLs that are human-readable, although the resulting strings are longer than those generated by a length-optimized service. Finally, URL shortening sites provide detailed information on the clicks a link receives, which can be simpler than setting up an equally ...

3. Bitly - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly

   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 York City. Bitly shortens 600 million links per month, [4] for use in social networking, SMS, and email. Bitly makes money by charging for access to aggregate data created as a result of many ...

4. TinyURL - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyURL

   TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 [1] as a way to post links in newsgroup postings which frequently had long, cumbersome addresses. TinyURL was the first notable URL shortening service and is one of the ...

5. Category:URL-shortening services - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "URL-shortening services" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bitly; G.

6. Wikipedia:URLShortener - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:URLShortener

   The Wikimedia URL Shortener is a feature that allows you to create short URLs for any page on projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order to reuse them elsewhere, for example on social networks, on wikis, or on paper. The feature can be accessed from Meta-Wiki on the special page m:Special:URLShortener. On this page, you will be able ...

7. USA.gov - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA.gov

   There was a URL shortening service, go.USA.gov, that was available to users that had a .gov email address (only .gov URLs were allowed to be submitted for shortening through this service). The service would then generate a random URL following go.USA.gov which would redirect the user to the longer .gov URL stored in the system. This service was ...

8. .ly - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ly

   Many popular URL shortening services are registered in the .ly domain, such as bit.ly (formerly default for use on Twitter). [ 8 ] In October 2010, the domain of " sex-positive " URL shortening service vb.ly, which had been registered in 2009 by American journalist Violet Blue and Ben Metcalfe, was seized by the Libyan web authorities for not ...

9. URL redirection - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection

   With the launch of TinyURL in 2002 a new kind of redirecting service was born, namely URL shortening. Their goal was to make long URLs short, to be able to post them on internet forums. Since 2006, with the 140 character limit on the extremely popular Twitter service, these short URL services have been heavily used.