You have probably noticed a rapid influx of URL shortening services over the last year – from bit.ly to tinyURL and literally 50+ more. Well now you can create your own. Shorty is a simple tool ...

Farther down the file, under "Site options," look for a line asking for a "Short domain URL." If you've got your own domain name, simply fill it out and be sure to leave off the trailing "/" slash.

LONDON, Sept. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Short URLs and deep links are powerful marketing tools that drive click-through rates, sharing, and conversions. Cli.co is the first free service to ...

When you expand a short URL and see it bounce through several different domains before reaching the final destination, that's suspicious. Legitimate websites rarely need more than one redirect.

Our winners, though, are two organizations that paired über-short URLs with exotic locations – and perfect final products. In second place, NPR’s n.pr, from Puerto Rico.

A first step in keeping URL size down is if the domain used by the URL shortening service itself is small. For example, popular service TinyURL has the domain of tinyurl.com, 11 characters.

In contrast, if the URL was shortened to just the domain, it might be more apparent to a person that they pulled up microsoft.hhr13231j.com instead of Microsoft’s website.

Microsoft included the 1drv.ms URL shortening service in its OneDrive cloud storage service and a similar service (binged.it) for Bing Maps—"branded" domains of the bit.ly domain shortening service.

Google has secured a new domain name, YT.be, which it started forwarding to its goo.gl URL shortening service today. Presumably, Google will use the domain name for shortened links to YouTube videos.

The subject of this article has to do with using a Libyan domain as the foundation for many of our URL redirects -- and my opinion of the general foolishness (and mock-worthy fun) of that practice.