URL Shortening
Jul. 8th, 2009 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparrFirst came tinyurl. It produced URLs like this:
http://tinyurl.com/xxxxx (and eventually 6 and 7 characters, as it got more popular)
Then came a huge assortment of services with shorter domain names, some with interesting features...
http://is.gd/xxxxx
http://bit.ly/yourowntext
But the ultimate URL shortener, in terms of length, has been achieved... The admins of the TK top level domain (owned by the country Tokelau) have started a service called Tweak.tk, which registers a domain name for every shortened URL, so your long URL shortens to something like this:
http://xxxxx.tk
That's it. No path, no extra stuff, nada. It really can't get much shorter than that (sure, you could do 4 characters, but those are more likely to be registered for real, and there are far less of them).
Bit.ly users can rest assured that Tweak.tk won't be offering custom names, since that would undercut their domain registration business, but they will probably end up offering all the other popular features.
http://tinyurl.com/xxxxx (and eventually 6 and 7 characters, as it got more popular)
Then came a huge assortment of services with shorter domain names, some with interesting features...
http://is.gd/xxxxx
http://bit.ly/yourowntext
But the ultimate URL shortener, in terms of length, has been achieved... The admins of the TK top level domain (owned by the country Tokelau) have started a service called Tweak.tk, which registers a domain name for every shortened URL, so your long URL shortens to something like this:
http://xxxxx.tk
That's it. No path, no extra stuff, nada. It really can't get much shorter than that (sure, you could do 4 characters, but those are more likely to be registered for real, and there are far less of them).
Bit.ly users can rest assured that Tweak.tk won't be offering custom names, since that would undercut their domain registration business, but they will probably end up offering all the other popular features.
