shortenaurl.com | URL Shortner

Jan. 3, 2013 - PRLog -- Welcome to shortenaurl.com! Are you sick of sharing long URL's to your friends? Would you like to rickroll a friend without him having any idea about the link you're referring him to? Then you've come to the right place! Enter any URL in the above field, and we will give you a short and unique shortenaurl.com URL that you can share. Gone are the days where you need to email people long complicated links, you can just shortenaurl it and tell them the simple link which is easy to remember.

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RL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web) in which a Uniform Resource Locator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator) (URL) may be made substantially shorter in length and still direct to the required page. This is achieved by using an HTTP Redirect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_Redirection) on a domain name that is short, which links to the web page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page) that has a long URL. For example, the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening can be shortened to http://bit.ly/urlwiki, http://tinyurl.com/urlwiki,http://is.gd/urlwiki or http://goo.gl/Gmzqv. This is especially convenient for messaging technologies such as Twitter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter) and Identi.ca (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identi.ca) which severely limit the number of characters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_(computing) that may be used in a message. Short URLs allow otherwise long web addresses to be referred to in a tweet. In November 2009, the shortened links of the URL shortening service Bitly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly) were accessed 2.1 billion times.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening#cite_note-1)

Another use of URL shortening is to disguise the underlying address. Although this may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse and for this reason, some URL shortening service providers have found themselves on spam blacklists, because of the use of their redirect services by sites trying to bypass those very same blacklists. Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted.