50+ URL Shortening Services (Including Top Sites And Favorites)

Posted by Madhav Tripathi | Posted in Social Media, Web Apps, Web Resources, internet | Posted on 02-09-2009

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Any URL shortener’s main purpose is to shorten a long URL into a short URL.

URL shortener are criticized by many bloggers because sometime they are used for bad purpose but their popularity never gone down. Now you can create your own URL shortening service as TechCrunch and Gigaom use their own URL shorter.

Tinyurl.com is I think oldest URL shorter on the earth, bit.ly is blessed by Twitter so now it is most busy URL shortener. Ow.ly and tr.im are other famous services.

Some URL shortener need to open an account before using them and others you can use without opening an account.

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(1) Bit.ly

(2) Decenturl.com

(3) Digbig

(4) Doiop

(5) Durl

(6) Dwarfurl

(7) Easyurl

(8) Is.gd

(9) Fhurl

(10) Fly2.ws

(11) Tr.im

(12) Lnk.in

(13) Memurl

(14) Metamark

(15) Kimsufi

(16) Moourl

(17) Myurl

(18) Ne1

(19) Notlong

(20) Nutshellurl

(21) Redirx

(22) Rubyurl

(23) Shim.ne

(24) Ow.ly

(25) Shorl

(26) Shortlinks

(27) Shorturl

(28 Lotpatrol

(29) Get-shorty

(30) Shoturl

(31) Shrinkurl

(32) Simurl

(33) Snipurl

(34) Starturl.com

(35) Tighturl

(36) Digipills

(37) Tinyurl

(38) Tubeurl

(39) Turo

(40) Ulimit

(41) Url

(42) Urlcut

(43) Url.ie

(44) Wapurl

(45) Webalias

(46) Yep.it

(47) 6url

(48) Dickensurl

(49) Icanhaz

(50) Bacn.me

(51) Tinyarro.ws

(52) Hugeurl

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bbrian017 said on 02-09-2009
	wow crazy list Madhav. How do you even go about finding all of these? I remember when tiny url came out and it was used by everyone almost like a fad for a bit lol. Thanks for the list bro. p.s. can you look at adding a subscribe to comments plugin? bbrian017´s last blog ..Social Interaction Builds Blog Traffic

Madhav Tripathi said on 02-09-2009
	Hello @bbrian017 I searched on Google to find this all! Thanks for asking for subscribe comment plugin now this plugin is live on TechShali.

Karl Foxley said on 03-09-2009
	This is a comprehensive list. You see new ones pop up nearly every day over at Killer Startups. It will be interesting to see how many stand the test of time and will be about in a year or so. I’m a BudURL fan myself. Thanks for sharing, Karl

GigaTux said on 07-10-2009
	Yet another new one is up at http://ho.io/ I guess the difference for this one is that we promise it’ll be up as long as the Internet exists. It runs on our own servers (we’re primarily a hosting company) so can keep it redirecting with little extra cost to us.

Bob jogson said on 27-02-2010
	Here is another one to add to the list http://hidelink.tk xD