Use Free URL Shortener

I you need your URLs shortened, feel free to use my shortener http://shortener.net

 

I used it. But I feel there is bit problem in URL redirection !

 

What do you mean shorten the URL?

 

@stevejeff

it works perfectly. you just have to wait 3 seconds for the page to load.

@ted1986

this is so that when you want to give a url like http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1305093 you can simply make it short to http://www.shortener.net/?dp

 

Yeah ofcourse http://www.shortener.net works fine, but there are some old & famous URL shorteners which are much easier to use for example http://www.tinyurl.com

I have shortened the URL of this page to http://tinyurl.com/ckqeb2
using www.tinyurl.com, this one also shows a preview which I like. And not only this there are many URL shorteners available online.

Paul

 

Why wouldn't I want to use a really short domain-name one like is.gd, u.nu, or tr.im? It seems like the whole point is to have as short a URL as possible at the end of the day; shortener.net is quite a mouthful.

 

tinyurl is a major competetor for ye XD

also, dot tk is awesome for making anything www.website.tk

 

Maybe you should use a domain that doesn't look like a shortener? A lot of the appeal of these websites is to shorten a domain, but many also use them to mask their own domain from the person clicking the link in the beginning. If you could brand a website name like groovystuff.com or something I think you could tap the market of those looking to hide the fact that the URL is shortened and make it look like an original URL.

 

yeah use a shorter and smaller domain. A generic domain that can apply to any category.