And, as while I preparing content for the earlier post "URL Shortener goo.gl and bit.ly comparison", I also had to compute how much URL shortener are out there for the Users despite the giants URL's.., tinyurl, bit.ly, and goo.gl..,
Though we just call it URL Shortener, shortens the long URL to simple one but its yield is big and long:
Purpose of URL Shortener
service
Less space - In Twitter and some instant messaging services, there is a total character limit to messages and these URL services make it possible to include a URL as long as it is to a shorten one so that it consumes less space
Avoid URL garbling - Copying a URL that is hundreds of characters long can make the URL garbled. Thus a short URL is more useful to copy from an e-mail message or forum post.
Reading aloud - To accomplish this objective any URL shortening service can be useful. However those which let the user choose the URL are more suited for this task. Some shortening services, such as tinyurl.com and bit.ly, can generate URLs that are human-readable, though the resulting strings are longer than those generated by a length-optimized service.
Manipulating visitors - URL shortening is a special kind of URL redirection, which is sometimes used in pranks, phishing, or affiliate hiding. For example, a TinyURL link could redirect to a well-known shock site. Some of these services (such as the now-defunct br.st) have started filtering all shortened links through services like Google Safe Browsing.
Linking to blacklisted domains - Many sites that accept user submitted content block links to certain domains to cut down on spam. Linking to a URL shortener that redirect to a blacklisted domain allows spammers to bypass this restriction. For this reason, known URL redirection services are often themselves added to spam blacklists.
History
The idea of URL shortening dates to at least 2001.
In 2002 the first notable URL shortening service, TinyURL, was launched, started by Kevin "Gilby" Gilbertson, later its popularity influenced the creation of more similar websites that are simply domain alternatives
TinyURL was Initially Twitter automatically translated long URLs using TinyURL. As of 2009, it uses bit.ly
In May 2009 .tk, which previously was used to generate memorable domains via URL redirection, launched tweak.tk, which generates very short URLs such as http://mxtux.tk/
On 10 August 2009, tr.im, a notice shortening service announced that "statistics can no longer be considered reliable, or reliably available going forward" and that they were shuttering the generation of new shortened URLs, but assured existing tr.im short URLs would "continue to redirect, and will do so until at least December 31, 2009". A blog post on the site attributed this move to several factors, including the lack of suitable revenue generation mechanisms to cover ongoing hosting and maintenance costs, lack of interest among possible purchasers of the service, and Twitter's default use of the bit.ly shortener. This blog post also questioned whether other shortening services can successfully monetize URL shortening in the longer term. A few days later, tr.im reversed itself on this move, announcing it would resume all operations "going forward, indefinitely, while we continue to consider our options in regards to tr.im's future"
On 14 August 2009, WordPress announced the wp.me URL shortener for use when referring to any WordPress.com blog post.
In November 2009, shortened links on bit.ly were accessed 2.1 billion times. Around that time, bit.ly and TinyURL were the most widely used URL shortening services
In December 2009, the URL shortener TO./ NanoURL was launched by .TO. The service creates a URL address which looks like http://to./xxxx, where xxxx represents a combination of random numbers and letters. NanoURL currently generates the shortest URLs of all URL shortening services, because it is hosted on a top level domain (the one of Tonga). This rare form of URL may cause problems with some browsers, which interpret this as a search term and look it up on a search engine, instead of opening it.
On 14 December 2009, Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and Feedburner.)It does, however, have two extensions (standard and lite versions) for Google Chrome. Since September 2010 it has become available via a direct interface. On 21 December 2009, Google also announced a service called YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be
Though we use few Url Shortener services popular like tiny, bit.ly and so on.., but evry one is also familiar with lumps of URL shortener are also out there which is used by some or other around net..,
and here - the list of apparently Infinitely supply of URL shorteners all around.., this might help you to pick few more URL Shortener service that will convience you apart from your favorite services..,
URL Shortener services - listed in alphabetical order
2big.at
2ya.com
23o.net
301url.com
4url.cc
6url.com
a2n.eu
abbrr.com
adjix.com
alturl.com
azqq.com
beam.to
b65.us
bit.ly
budurl.com
burnurl.com
canurl.com
cli.gs
clickMeter.com
cuturls.com
decenturl.com
digbig
doiop
dwarfurl.com
dfl8.me
dy.fi
durl.us
decenturl.com
easyuri.com
easyurl.net
esyurl.com
eweri.com
ezurl.eu
elfurl.com
fon.gs
fire.to
firsturl.de
fly2.ws
fhurl.com
faceto.us
fexr.com
flingk.com
goo.gl
go2cut.com
go2.me
get-url.com
gowat.ch
hurl.ws
hurl.me
hex.io
hurl.it
hosturl.com
hotRedirect.com
hosturl.com
is.gd
idek.net
icanhaz.com
ilix.in
ix.lt
isCool.net
just.as
jmp2.net
kl.am
kissa.be
kindurl.com
krunchd.com
lin.cr
linkbun.ch
lnk.gd
ln-s.net
lnk.in
lookleap.com
linkslice.com
liteurl.net
moourl.co
myurl.in
minilien.com
makeitbrief.com
memurl.com
makeashorterlink.com
muhlink.org
minurl.fr
notlong.com
nn.nf
nsfw.in
ne1.net
nutshellurl.com
notifyurl.com
nanoref.com
netshortcut.com
ow.ly
oboeyasui.com
om.ly
profile.to
piurl.com
pnt.me
poprl.com
plurl.me
parv.us
plumurl.com
paulding.net
pd.am
qlnk.net
qicute.com
quickurl.co.uk
quip-art.com
quip-art.com
redirx.com
rubyurl.com
riz.gd
ru.ly
short.to
snipr.com
snipurl.com
snurl.com
su.pr
short.ie
sn.im
spedr.com
simurl.com
s7y.us
shrinkify.com
starturl.com
shrt.st
sturly.com
shw.me
shorl.com
shrinkster.com
shurl.net
shrunkin.com
shorturl.com
sharetabs.com
sqrl.it
shmyl.com
shrink2one.com
shorturl.de
shorterlink.co.uk
shortlinks.co.uk
smarturl.eu
shim.net
shortenurl.com
shorterlink.com
shortio.com
shrinkr.com
shrinkurl.us
sitelutions.com
shrten.com
safe.mn
shrtnd.com
tinyurl.com
tiny.pl
tiny123.com
tinyvid.io
tinyarro.ws
tinyuri.ca
tr.im
twurl.nl
tiny.cc
to.ly
tnij.org
tighturl.com
tubeurl.com
turo.us
traceurl.com
tiniuri.com
thnlnk.com
truncurl.com
twurl.cc
twirl.at
tweetl.com
twittu.ms
twitterpan.com
tweetburner.com
u.mavrev.com
url.ie
urlzen.com
url.co.uk
urlcover.com
urlhawk.com
urlx.org
urlenco.de
urlcut.com
u6e.de
urlot.com
urlborg.com
url360.me
url9.com
u76.org
ulimit.com
urlao.com
urlbee.com
urlcutter.com
urlTea.com
u.nu
voomr.com
vdirect.com
wapurl.co.uk
w3t.org
webalias.com
weturl.com
xrl.us
xr.com
x.se
xeeurl.com
xaddr.com
xil.in
yep.it
yweb.com
yiyd.com
yatuc.com
zipmyurl.com
zi.ma
zootit.com
Though we just call it URL Shortener, shortens the long URL to simple one but its yield is big and long:
consumes less spaceeven if it is not used regularly by all in earlier times but social networking sites like Twitter later had marked a need to use it compulsorily beyond our personal need of shortening..,
simple and
convenient
Purpose of URL Shortener
service
Less space - In Twitter and some instant messaging services, there is a total character limit to messages and these URL services make it possible to include a URL as long as it is to a shorten one so that it consumes less space
Avoid URL garbling - Copying a URL that is hundreds of characters long can make the URL garbled. Thus a short URL is more useful to copy from an e-mail message or forum post.
Reading aloud - To accomplish this objective any URL shortening service can be useful. However those which let the user choose the URL are more suited for this task. Some shortening services, such as tinyurl.com and bit.ly, can generate URLs that are human-readable, though the resulting strings are longer than those generated by a length-optimized service.
Manipulating visitors - URL shortening is a special kind of URL redirection, which is sometimes used in pranks, phishing, or affiliate hiding. For example, a TinyURL link could redirect to a well-known shock site. Some of these services (such as the now-defunct br.st) have started filtering all shortened links through services like Google Safe Browsing.
Linking to blacklisted domains - Many sites that accept user submitted content block links to certain domains to cut down on spam. Linking to a URL shortener that redirect to a blacklisted domain allows spammers to bypass this restriction. For this reason, known URL redirection services are often themselves added to spam blacklists.
History
The idea of URL shortening dates to at least 2001.
In 2002 the first notable URL shortening service, TinyURL, was launched, started by Kevin "Gilby" Gilbertson, later its popularity influenced the creation of more similar websites that are simply domain alternatives
TinyURL was Initially Twitter automatically translated long URLs using TinyURL. As of 2009, it uses bit.ly
In May 2009 .tk, which previously was used to generate memorable domains via URL redirection, launched tweak.tk, which generates very short URLs such as http://mxtux.tk/
On 10 August 2009, tr.im, a notice shortening service announced that "statistics can no longer be considered reliable, or reliably available going forward" and that they were shuttering the generation of new shortened URLs, but assured existing tr.im short URLs would "continue to redirect, and will do so until at least December 31, 2009". A blog post on the site attributed this move to several factors, including the lack of suitable revenue generation mechanisms to cover ongoing hosting and maintenance costs, lack of interest among possible purchasers of the service, and Twitter's default use of the bit.ly shortener. This blog post also questioned whether other shortening services can successfully monetize URL shortening in the longer term. A few days later, tr.im reversed itself on this move, announcing it would resume all operations "going forward, indefinitely, while we continue to consider our options in regards to tr.im's future"
On 14 August 2009, WordPress announced the wp.me URL shortener for use when referring to any WordPress.com blog post.
In November 2009, shortened links on bit.ly were accessed 2.1 billion times. Around that time, bit.ly and TinyURL were the most widely used URL shortening services
In December 2009, the URL shortener TO./ NanoURL was launched by .TO. The service creates a URL address which looks like http://to./xxxx, where xxxx represents a combination of random numbers and letters. NanoURL currently generates the shortest URLs of all URL shortening services, because it is hosted on a top level domain (the one of Tonga). This rare form of URL may cause problems with some browsers, which interpret this as a search term and look it up on a search engine, instead of opening it.
On 14 December 2009, Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and Feedburner.)It does, however, have two extensions (standard and lite versions) for Google Chrome. Since September 2010 it has become available via a direct interface. On 21 December 2009, Google also announced a service called YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be
Though we use few Url Shortener services popular like tiny, bit.ly and so on.., but evry one is also familiar with lumps of URL shortener are also out there which is used by some or other around net..,
and here - the list of apparently Infinitely supply of URL shorteners all around.., this might help you to pick few more URL Shortener service that will convience you apart from your favorite services..,
URL Shortener services - listed in alphabetical order
2big.at
2ya.com
23o.net
301url.com
4url.cc
6url.com
a2n.eu
abbrr.com
adjix.com
alturl.com
azqq.com
beam.to
b65.us
bit.ly
budurl.com
burnurl.com
canurl.com
cli.gs
clickMeter.com
cuturls.com
decenturl.com
digbig
doiop
dwarfurl.com
dfl8.me
dy.fi
durl.us
decenturl.com
easyuri.com
easyurl.net
esyurl.com
eweri.com
ezurl.eu
elfurl.com
fon.gs
fire.to
firsturl.de
fly2.ws
fhurl.com
faceto.us
fexr.com
flingk.com
goo.gl
go2cut.com
go2.me
get-url.com
gowat.ch
hurl.ws
hurl.me
hex.io
hurl.it
hosturl.com
hotRedirect.com
hosturl.com
is.gd
idek.net
icanhaz.com
ilix.in
ix.lt
isCool.net
just.as
jmp2.net
kl.am
kissa.be
kindurl.com
krunchd.com
lin.cr
linkbun.ch
lnk.gd
ln-s.net
lnk.in
lookleap.com
linkslice.com
liteurl.net
moourl.co
myurl.in
minilien.com
makeitbrief.com
memurl.com
makeashorterlink.com
muhlink.org
minurl.fr
notlong.com
nn.nf
nsfw.in
ne1.net
nutshellurl.com
notifyurl.com
nanoref.com
netshortcut.com
ow.ly
oboeyasui.com
om.ly
profile.to
piurl.com
pnt.me
poprl.com
plurl.me
parv.us
plumurl.com
paulding.net
pd.am
qlnk.net
qicute.com
quickurl.co.uk
quip-art.com
quip-art.com
redirx.com
rubyurl.com
riz.gd
ru.ly
short.to
snipr.com
snipurl.com
snurl.com
su.pr
short.ie
sn.im
spedr.com
simurl.com
s7y.us
shrinkify.com
starturl.com
shrt.st
sturly.com
shw.me
shorl.com
shrinkster.com
shurl.net
shrunkin.com
shorturl.com
sharetabs.com
sqrl.it
shmyl.com
shrink2one.com
shorturl.de
shorterlink.co.uk
shortlinks.co.uk
smarturl.eu
shim.net
shortenurl.com
shorterlink.com
shortio.com
shrinkr.com
shrinkurl.us
sitelutions.com
shrten.com
safe.mn
shrtnd.com
tinyurl.com
tiny.pl
tiny123.com
tinyvid.io
tinyarro.ws
tinyuri.ca
tr.im
twurl.nl
tiny.cc
to.ly
tnij.org
tighturl.com
tubeurl.com
turo.us
traceurl.com
tiniuri.com
thnlnk.com
truncurl.com
twurl.cc
twirl.at
tweetl.com
twittu.ms
twitterpan.com
tweetburner.com
u.mavrev.com
url.ie
urlzen.com
url.co.uk
urlcover.com
urlhawk.com
urlx.org
urlenco.de
urlcut.com
u6e.de
urlot.com
urlborg.com
url360.me
url9.com
u76.org
ulimit.com
urlao.com
urlbee.com
urlcutter.com
urlTea.com
u.nu
voomr.com
vdirect.com
wapurl.co.uk
w3t.org
webalias.com
weturl.com
xrl.us
xr.com
x.se
xeeurl.com
xaddr.com
xil.in
yep.it
yweb.com
yiyd.com
yatuc.com
zipmyurl.com
zi.ma
zootit.com
