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* ccl.hu
* ccl.hu
* cf.ly (CashFly.com)
* cf.ly (CashFly.com)
* cli.gs - Appears non-incremental
* chilp.it -- seems to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST)
* cl.ly - CloudApp
* cl.ly - CloudApp
* cmt.com - Country Music Television
* cmt.com - Country Music Television
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* 6url.com - HTML redirect, Error 500
* 6url.com - HTML redirect, Error 500


* abra.me - server down as of 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST)
* ad.vu - mirror of adjix.com, application not found
* ad.vu - mirror of adjix.com, application not found
* arm.in - domain for sale as of 21:44, 21 November 2015 (EST)
* arm.in - domain for sale as of 21:44, 21 November 2015 (EST)
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* calyp.co - Server error. 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.
* calyp.co - Server error. 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.
* canurl.com - Website dead
* canurl.com - Website dead
* catchyurl.co
* chod.sk - Appears non-incremental, not resolving
* chod.sk - Appears non-incremental, not resolving
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130126170221/http://come.to/ come.to] - Related to various .to shorteners. Started in 1997, killed in 2013 after [https://web.archive.org/web/20110820081653/http://www.myphotoalbum.com/ parent company] died.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130126170221/http://come.to/ come.to] - Related to various .to shorteners. Started in 1997, killed in 2013 after [https://web.archive.org/web/20110820081653/http://www.myphotoalbum.com/ parent company] died.
* catchyurl.co
* cli.gs - server timeout as of [[User:JesseW|JesseW]] 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST); Appears non-incremental
* clop.in -- domain parked as of 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST)


* da.co - Parked.
* da.co - Parked.

Revision as of 02:52, 22 November 2015

Urlteam
url shortening was a fucking awful idea
url shortening was a fucking awful idea
URL http://urlte.am
Status Online!
Archiving status In progress...
Archiving type Unknown
Project source Old: urlteam-stuff tinyback tinyarchive

New: terroroftinytown-client-grab terroroftinytown

Project tracker http://tracker.archiveteam.org:1337/ (HTTPS)
IRC channel #urlteam (on hackint)

TinyURL, bit.ly and other similar services allow long URLs to be converted to smaller ones on their specific service; the small URL is visited by a consumer and their web browser is redirected to the long URL.

Such services are a ticking timebomb. If they go away, get hacked or sell out millions of links will be lost (see Wikipedia: Link Rot). Archive.org/301Works is acting as an escrow for URL shortener databases, but they rely on URL shorteners to actually give them their databases. Even 301Works founding member bit.ly does not actually share their databases and most other big shorteners don't share theirs either.

301Work cooperation

301works logo.jpg

The fine folks at archive.org have provided us with upload permissions to the 301Works archive: http://www.archive.org/details/301utm. They unfortunately do not want to make them downloadable, but the same data is in our torrents too, just in a different format (we use pipe-delimited, xz-compressed files while 301works uses comma-delimited uncompressed files).

Tools

Terror of Tiny Town

The easiest way to help with scraping is to run the Warrior and select the URLTeam 2 project. You can also run ToTT outside the warrior; to do so, follow the instructions at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/terroroftinytown-client-grab.

URL shorteners

Non-warrior projects

Name Est. number of shorturls Scraping done by Status Comments
http://goo.gl ? User:Scumola started (2011-03-04) goo.gl throttles pulls
http://ff.im ? User:Chronomex only used by FriendFeed, no interface to shorten new URLs
http://4url.cc 1279 (2009-08-14)[1] User:Chronomex dead (2011-02-15)
http://litturl.com 17096 (2010-04-15)[2] User:Chronomex dead (2010-11-18)
http://xs.md 3084 (2009-08-15)[3] User:Chronomex done dead (2010-11-18)
http://url.0daymeme.com 14867 (2009-08-14)[4] User:Chronomex done dead (2010-11-18)
http://tr.im (old) 1990425 - got what we could dead (2011-12-31)
visibli (hex) 16777216 User:Chfoo Warrior In progress
Done. 15104865 301MB
Using links.sharedby.co/links/ as URL prefix. These results are already in the torrent. Latest version uploaded to IA
http://post.ly (Posterous) ? Warrior/EC2 done dead
http://zapd.co Zapd 326592 User:Chfoo Done. 144093 1.7M xxxx.zapd.co. Uploaded to IA
http://bre.ad Bre.ad 120932351 User:Chfoo Incomplete (59771889 examined). 54506 1.2MB de.ad (2013-11-18). Uploaded to IA

Got what I can without overloading their EC2 instance.

Name Number of shorturls Scraping done by Status Comments

For the latest TinyTown updates, please see chfoo's spreadsheet.

Warrior projects

Warrior project name Est. # shorturls Last scraped date Initially scraped date # checked Example URL Incr Comments
tinyurl_7 +/- 10,000,000,000 2024-03-28 2014-11-22 2,592,275,300 http://tinyurl.com/mxzufis N done: sequential to zzzzzz; current: non-sequential, 7 characters; uses custom code
tinyurl-hu_4 +/- ? 2015-11-01 2015-08-13 20,308,700 http://tinyurl.hu/4q22 ? uses custom code
bitly_6 +/- 50,000,000,000 2024-03-28 2014-11-22 3,983,140,700 https://bit.ly/1Zmfo8z N done: non-sequential 6 characters; current: non-sequential, 6 characters; uses custom code
isgd_6 +/- 934,134,706 (as of 2013-05-20) 2024-03-28 2014-11-22 2,129,101,400 http://is.gd/mBNPCM ? done: sequential up to ZZZZZ ; new shorturls: non-sequential, 6 characters; uses custom code
tr-im_gravity4 +/- ? 2014-12-12 2014-12-01 42,813,150 ? ? done: sequential to 42pzz ; dead (2014-JUL-17) ; Appears incremental - Ex: http://tr.im/44tn2 http://tr.im/44tn4
sharedby-co_6 +/- ? 2024-03-28 2015-01-29 42,585,450 ? ? (Also see http://vsb.li. Double redirects via USERNAME.sharedby.co/share/XXXXXX ) (and http://shrd.by ); uses custom code
ur1-ca +/- ? 2014-12-20 2014-12-17 10,874,150 ? ? new shorturls: sequential ; FOSS, run by StatusNet; claims to offer a download of their database, but it just contains garbage
snipurl +/- ? 2015-03-06 2015-01-24 181,015,750 ? Y new shorturls: sequential ; snipr.com / snipurl.com / snurl.com - Appears incremental - Ex: http://snipr.com/27nvst http://snipr.com/27nvtt. snipr.com and snipurl.com work but appear infected with malware. ; uses custom code
snipurl_range2 +/- ? 2015-04-20 2015-03-06 293,372,600 ? ? see snipurl entry; uses custom code
vbly-us +/- ? 2015-11-09 2015-01-11 628,650 http://vbly.us/2mwv Y new shorturls: sequential; 2015-11-09 scape from 2jp6 up to 2mwv (seq # 123000)
arseh-at +/- ? 2015-01-15 2015-01-11 1,842,350 ? Y Appears down; new shorturls: sequential
1r-hu +/- ? 2014-12-02 2014-12-02 1,346,050 ? ? Done
2jump-info +/- ? 2014-12-02 2014-12-02 298,949 ? ? Banned
adjix +/- ? 2015-1-24 2014-12-13 8,615,100 ? ? Appears down; uses custom code
alturl-com +/- ? 2015-05-27 2015-03-06 39,367,900 http://alturl.com/wqok ? Appears to redirect to http://shorturl.com ; Probably sequential/loweralpha; uses custom code
ar-gy +/- ? 2014-12-18 2014-12-17 3,303,100 ? ? Appears down; Argyle Social, main page 404s, existing urls still work
awe-sm +/- ? 2015-04-04 2014-12-24 967,591,000 ? ? main page redirects, doesn't allow for new urls to be publicly shortened, existing urls still work; uses custom code
bull-hn +/- 50,000 2015-11-15 2015-11-15 20,555 http://bull.hn/l/19JQE/ ? Vanity URL shortner for a recruiting company, "Bullhorn Reach"
burl-se +/- 1,500 2015-11-08 2014-11-06 3,250 http://burl.se/428 Y 200 re-checked on 2015-11-08
dwurl-hu +/- 2024-03-28 2015-11-16 41,150 http://dwurl.hu/gMEtiA ( created 01:36, 2 November 2015 (EST)) N Allows public shortening; appears to give 6 character, mixed case alphabetic (no digits), non-incremental URLs
feedly_8 +/- ? 2015-01-03 2015-01-03 129,762,450 ? ? Banned; uses custom code
fwdurl-net +/- ? 2024-03-28 2015-11-16 2,341 http://fwdurl.net/uDRZ4TGAj6V (created Nov 16, 2015)
http://fwdurl.net/aYwa (created Dec 17, 2013)
? responds very slowly; stats (including creation date, & hit count) available by suffixing "!"
kcy-me +/- ? 2014-11-06 2014-11-06 2,952,100 ? ? Shortening service for http://karmacracy.com ; requires free account to create short URLs
korta-nu +/- ? 2015-05-27 2015-04-11 12,767,850 ? ?
migre-me +/- 420,000,000 2024-03-28 2015-11-08 12,290,765 ? Y up to 5 characters, mixed case alphanumeric, currently around rZIfF (as of 02:00, 2 November 2015 (EST))
mysp-ac +/- ? 2015-04-04 2015-02-09 16,245,049 ? ? uses custom code
nig-gr +/- ? 2014-11-06 2014-11-06 279,800 ? ? Home page is a blank black screen. (as of 01:38, 9 November 2015 (EST))
ow-ly +/- ? 2015-03-10 2015-01-20 367,074,900 http://ow.ly/UVFi7 Y owned by Hootsuite; new shorturls: sequential ; (aliases: http://htl.li , http://ht.ly , http://owl.li ); uses custom code
ph-ly +/- ? 2015-04-04 2014-12-13 989,290,500 ? ? Related to the pond called Philadelphia, where links are born and raised, doesn't allow for new urls to be publicly shortened, existing urls still work
piciurl-hu +/- ? 2015-04-11 2015-04-11 255,200 ? Y
pub-vitrue-com +/- ? 2014-11-22 2014-11-16 15,067,550 ? ? Now part of Oracle; uses custom code
shar-es +/- ? 2015-04-08 2014-12-13 1,031,784,400 ? ? Still resolves URLs, but the homepage is 404; related to http://sharethis.com ; uses custom code
shrt-st +/- ? 2014-11-06 2014-11-06 738,600 http://shrt.st/vpz Y Appears down; doesn't allow new urls to be shortened, existing urls still work.
srtn-us +/- ? 2014-11-06 2014-11-06 54,100 ? ? still resolves URLs, but site just shows blank page
t7-hu +/- ? 2014-12-13 2014-12-13 585,800 ? ? Doesn't make any more shorturls
tighturl-com +/- ? 2014-11-22 2014-11-16 3,123,300 http://tighturl.com/30xu
http://tighturl.com/30xv
Y (alias: 2tu.us); appears to do case folding; uses custom code
trap-it +/- ? 2015-02-20 2015-01-01 3,130,300 ? ?
u-to +/- ? 2024-03-28 2015-05-02 52,891,199 ? ? Doesn't allow new shortened URLs, as of 01:57, 19 November 2015 (EST)
u4-hu +/- ? 2014-11-16 2014-11-16 178,250 ? ? Appears down
vgd_6 +/- ? 2024-03-28 2015-02-14 1,739,573,450 ? ? uses custom code
viddy-it +/- ? 2014-12-18 2014-11-16 832,351,700 ? ? dead; viddy; partially saved
waa-ai +/- ? 2014-11-16 2014-11-16 2,151,400 ? ? Requires free login to create shorturls
xco +/- ? 2014-11-22 2014-11-06 80,319,800 http://x.co/1IxUV
http://x.co/1IxUW
Y Appears incremental, but custom ones also exist (up to 10 characters); requires (free) GoDaddy account to create short URLs; uses custom code
xrl-us +/- ? 2015-01-10 2014-12-12 161,601,700 ? ? self-saved; Thank you Metamark for the database dump!
xrl-us_lowercase +/- ? 2015-01-14 2015-01-10 28,675,900 ? ? see xrl-us entry
y-ahoo-it_5 +/- y-ahoo-it_6 +/- y-ahoo-it_8 +/- ? 2015-04-04 2014-11-06 ? ? ? Partial
y-ahoo-it_5: 982,090,300 checked between 2014-11-06 and 2015-02-25
y-ahoo-it_6: 1,670,279,150 checked between 2014-11-06 and 2015-04-03
y-ahoo-it_8: 1,952,022,300 checked between 2014-11-06 and 2015-04-04 . Now dead.
yatuc +/- ? 2014-12-13 2014-12-13 597,150 ? ? Not accepting new urls; uses custom code
yoolink-to +/- ? 2015-11-08 2014-11-16 333,450 http://yoolink.to/1dwa Y Up to 3 characters scraped on 2014-11-16 (a small 2 character segment re-scraped on 2014-11-22); 4 characters (up to 1dwa) scraped starting 2015-11-08
Warrior project name Est. # shorturls Last scraped date Initially scraped date # checked Example URL Incr Comments

Alive

(please keep list alphabetized, and list verification dates inline)

Sources include: http://blog.go2.me/2009/01/exhausting-review-of-link-shorteners.html (last updated 2009-08-14) and http://code.google.com/p/shortenurl/wiki/URLShorteningServices (Updated May 19, 2011; not fully integrated yet)


  • 2.gp -- http://2.gp/GDYZ (created 21:34, 21 November 2015 (EST)) ; 4-character alphanumeric (excluding "similar looking letters"), incremental; seems to check that URL resolves
  • 2.ly -- looks very similar to 2.gp (but not an alias)
  • bc.vc - displays interstitial ads
  • budurl.com - Appears non-incremental
  • buff.ly - Buffer App
  • ccl.hu
  • cf.ly (CashFly.com)
  • chilp.it -- seems to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST)
  • cl.ly - CloudApp
  • cmt.com - Country Music Television
  • cur.lv (CoinURL.com)
  • decenturl.com - Not at all easy to scrape.
  • del.ly - sprinklr
  • df4.us - daringfireball.net
  • dld.bz - "private URL shortening service"
  • dlvr.it - Requires free login; then requires connecting to another service; URLs are shortened when sent through. ( as of 01:36, 2 November 2015 (EST))
  • doiop.com - Appears non-incremental
  • fav.me - Used by DeviantArt. Ex: http://fav.me/d31sfml
  • flip.it - Flipboard
  • flpbd.it - Flipboard
  • fnd.us (See offical shorteners)
  • fos.hu – incremental alphanumeric, but shares pattern with an image sharing service
  • none that start with g, h, or i, yet.
  • kics.it – Restricted access to shourturl creation
  • linkbucks.com
  • ln.is - linkis.com
  • lnq.me - http://lnq.me/DnXtHO ; 6-character, alphanumeric, seems-non-incremental ; http://lnq.me/preview/en/ -- which seems to some kind of bizarre guessing if you put in less than 6 characters (as of 20:33, 21 November 2015 (EST) )
  • m112.hu
  • me2.hu
  • mgnet.me - for torrent magnet URIs.
  • miniurl.hu
  • moourl.com – Random
  • my.dot.tk/tweak - Appears non-incremental
  • nblo.gs -- no obvious way to create URLs from the home page as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)
  • news.me -- no obvious way to create URLs from the home page as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)
  • nohref.hu – Allows custom shorturl & deletes links after a specified time period (or 1 year without use)
  • notlong.com - Appears to be alpha-only - Ex: http://yeitoo.notlong.com/ ; doesn't seem to be allow creating new shorturls, as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)
  • nutshellurl.com - Appears incremental. 301s to a redirector script, which then 301s you to the destination.
  • none that start with o yet.
  • p.pw -- sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST))
  • pear.ly - Used by pearltrees.com. Ex: http://pear.ly/6J1H
  • pnut.co - see nutshellurl.com Ex: http://pnut.co/3a
  • po.st -- "social sharing platform"; no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST))
  • prsm.tc - getprismatic.com
  • none that start with q yet.
  • r.ebay.com
  • rod.gs - up to 3 characters, alphanumeric, creating new ones appears to hang (as of 02:14, 2 November 2015 (EST))
  • sdai.ly – Allows custom shorturl
  • shorl.com - Doesn't appear guessable - Ex: http://shorl.com/tisikestibahu
  • shorte.st - sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape
  • shrinkurl.us - Still resolves, but does not allow creating new URLs ("The URL you entered was not valid or did not exist.")
  • smarturl.eu / joturl.com - Doesn't appear guessable, HTML redirect.
  • smarturl.it - smartURL
  • soa.li - Gigya inc.
  • soc.li - Gigya inc.
  • spne.ws - Silicon Prairie News
  • spnsr.tw - sponsoredtweets.com
  • surl.co.uk - Many shortening options.
  • techme.me - Techmeme
  • tinyarrows.com / ta.gd / ri.ms / ➡.ws / ➨.ws / ➯.ws / ➔.ws / ➞.ws / ➽.ws / ➹.ws / ✩.ws / ✿.ws / ❥.ws / ›.ws / ⌘.ws / ‽.ws / ☁.ws - Appears non-incremental: uses user-defined words for URLs (e.g. http://➡.ws/URLTEAM)
  • tiny.cc - Appears non-incremental
  • totesz.hu/x – Allows custom shorturl
  • trib.al -- Does not appear to allow public creation of new short-URLs; owned by SocialFlow
  • twitthis.com -- requires a Twitter account to create shortURLs (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST))
  • urlcut.com - "We are not currently accepting new redirects at this time." ; existing ones seem to still work, e.g. http://urlcut.com/1xvha (as of 02:09, 2 November 2015 (EST))
  • usite.hu/link.php – Numeric incremental, public database
  • vk.cc -- no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST))
  • none that start with w or x yet.
  • none that start with z yet.

"Official" shorteners

  • bln.gs - Blingee (format: bln.gs/b/28fss0 and bln.gs/b/1)
  • CokeURL.com - Coca-Cola (examples: CokeURL.com/3yuz9 ; CokeURL.com/vs5s ; Cokeurl.com/theaterseat )
  • db.tt - Dropbox
  • di.sn - Disney
  • fb.me - Facebook
  • flic.kr - Flickr
  • fnd.us - Fundrazr.com
  • fxn.ws - Fox News
  • g.co - Google (used for Google products and services)
  • getpocket.com/s/ - Pocket
  • goo.gl - Google
  • go.usa.gov - USA Government (and since they control the Internets, it doesn't get much more official than this)
  • git.io - GitHub only URLs
  • gty.im - Getty Images (format: gty.im/488068439; links by editorial number)
  • gu.com - The Guardian (weird format - https://gu.com/p/3f7ca )
  • hub.me - HubPages
  • ift.tt - IFTTT
  • igg.me - Indiegogo
  • lnkd.in - LinkedIn
  • mfi.re - MediaFire
  • msft.it - Microsoft (or maybe something called "Sprinklr"?)
  • mysp.ac - Myspace
  • nydn.us - New York Daily News
  • off365.ms - Office 365
  • pocket.co - Pocket
  • post.ly - Posterous
  • redd.it - Reddit
  • reut.rs - Reuters
  • rsg.ms - Rockstar Games
  • skfb.ly - Sketchfab
  • spoti.fi - Spotify
  • stanford.io - Stanford University
  • su.pr - StumbleUpon
  • sx3.se - swedishstartupspace.se
  • t.co - Twitter
  • ti.me - Time Magazine
  • tmblr.co - Tumblr
  • tw.appstore.com - Apple App Store
  • uoft.me - University of Toronto
  • upl.nu - Ung Pirat (Youth Pirate Party, Sweden)
  • vstphl.ly - Visit Philly
  • wapo.st - Washington Post
  • wh.gov - White House (format: wh.gov/i3lXR)
  • wp.me - Wordpress.com
  • youtu.be - YouTube
  • hrts.me - University of Hertfordshire. Seems to be 5 characters long. a-z with usage of capitals and non capitals. Includes numbers. Mainly used on https://twitter.com/UniofHerts
bit.ly aliases

A bit.ly alias works just like a bit.ly URL. The shortcode is the same, it sets the same bit.ly cookie, and DNS resolving the address shows the IP addresses are the same as bit.ly. The homepage may be different however.

  • abcn.ws - ABC News (examples: abcn.ws/1aOoijH ; abcn.ws/okiWbi )
  • 1.usa.gov - USA Government
  • 4sq.com - Foursquare
  • 757live.ga
  • ada.ms
  • aje.me - Aljazeera
  • amzn.to - Amazon
  • arfo.sk
  • atfp.co - Foreign Policy
  • bbc.in - BBC
  • bbnew.be
  • bbybgrl.com
  • binged.it - Bing (bonus points for being longer than bing.com)
  • bnkrpt.am - Bankrupting America
  • bzfd.it - Buzzfeed
  • calltrack.es
  • canva.link
  • carrot.cr - Carrot Creative
  • cb.com - Career Builder
  • chzb.gr - Cheezeburger
  • cmplx.it - Complex Magazine
  • cnet.co - CNET
  • cnnmon.ie - CNN Money
  • conta.cc - Constant Contact Inc.
  • corb.is - Corbis Images
  • cot.ag
  • cpurl.net - Current Photographer.com
  • curbed.cc - Curbed.com
  • dag.gy
  • dennysd.in - Denny's Restaurants
  • dtoid.it - Destructoid
  • dwqn.me
  • econ.st - The Economist
  • emarketee.rs - Emarketeers
  • engri.sh - Engrish.com
  • eonli.ne - E! Online
  • es.pn - ESPN
  • fakes.pn - The Fake ESPN (at lockerdome.com)
  • fanpa.ge - Fanpage.it
  • feedly.com/k/ - redirect, see below for their own
  • fencetimesweep.com
  • flts.tk
  • fltsim.me
  • gaw.kr - Gawker
  • geekiss.im - Geekismo
  • grd.to - The Grid TO
  • grn.bz - GreenBiz
  • gtg.lu - GetGlue
  • hoblu.es - House of Blues
  • hub.am - HubSpot
  • huff.to - Huffington Post
  • ift.tt - IFTTT
  • j.mp - bit.ly[5]
  • joga.bo
  • jrnl.to - thejournal.ie
  • kck.st - Kickstarter
  • m.ly
  • marsdd.it - MaRS Discovery District
  • mbist.ro - MediaBistro
  • mojo.ly - Mother Jones
  • muo.fm - MakeUseOf
  • mwne.ws - MarketWired News
  • ncl.uz
  • nie.mn - Neiman Journalism Lab
  • nilegui.de
  • njlle.me
  • nokia.ly - Nokia
  • nyti.ms - New York Times
  • onforb.es - Forbes
  • onion.com - The Onion
  • pops.ci - Popular Science
  • popu.pe - Pop-Up Pantry
  • proof.ly
  • propub.ca - ProPublica
  • psxs.us
  • read.bi - Business Insider
  • rseo.co - realseo
  • s831.us - Studio831 - whatever that is
  • saggia.me
  • sbn.to - sbnation
  • sens.sc
  • shr.li
  • skygrid.me - SkyGrid
  • slackers.co - slackers.com
  • smle.us
  • squid.us - Laughing Squid
  • s.shr.lc - shareaholic - Naive, redirects any shortcode to bit.ly
  • stay.am
  • stjo.es - St. Joseph Media
  • tag.my
  • tcrn.ch - Techcrunch
  • theatln.tc - The Atlantic
  • tnw.co - The Next Web
  • tom.hn - Tom Hillenbrand
  • toms.sh - TOMS Shoes
  • tvt.ag - tvtag.com
  • txpr.de - TexasStore
  • unr.ly - Unruly media
  • usat.ly - USA Today Newspaper
  • vrge.co - The Verge
  • wkdb.it
  • yhoo.it - Yahoo! (not to be confused with y.ahoo.it, their non-bitly public url shortener)
  • zite.to - Zite

Dead or Broken

(please keep list alphabetized)

  • 1link.in - Website dead
  • 6url.com - HTML redirect, Error 500
  • abra.me - server down as of 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST)
  • ad.vu - mirror of adjix.com, application not found
  • arm.in - domain for sale as of 21:44, 21 November 2015 (EST)
  • bacn.me
  • be.vc
  • biglnk.com - dead, replaced with unrelated blog
  • bwtm.co - DNS fails to resolve.
  • calyp.co - Server error. 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.
  • canurl.com - Website dead
  • catchyurl.co
  • chod.sk - Appears non-incremental, not resolving
  • come.to - Related to various .to shorteners. Started in 1997, killed in 2013 after parent company died.
  • cli.gs - server timeout as of JesseW 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST); Appears non-incremental
  • clop.in -- domain parked as of 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST)
  • da.co - Parked.
  • dft.ba - Server gone as of JesseW 01:11, 17 November 2015 (EST) ; site had shutdown message (claiming links would continue to work), from July 2015 through Sept 2015.
  • digg.com - discontinued - [1]
  • dwarfurl.com - Website dead/Numeric, appears incremental: http://dwarfurl.com/08041
  • feedzil.la - Domain parked.
  • go2cut.com - Website dead
  • gob.li - Golbin Ridge Limited. Timed out
  • gonext.org - not resolving
  • go.to - sold its domains on Sedo apparently.
  • go2.me - everything 404s
  • gx.si
  • gyar.eu - Server gone as of 01:07, 17 November 2015 (EST) (examples: http://gyar.eu/c8 ; http:// gyar.eu/agB)
  • hashonomy.com - Timed out
  • href.hu
  • htcdev.net - DNS not resolving.
  • iawtp.me - DNS not resolving
  • icymi.me - DNS not resolving
  • ilix.in - domain parked
  • imfy.us - requires a recaptcha to get to the linked site, and avast goes nuts. DNS fails to resolve.
  • inspr.in - Inspired Beta. Can't find server
  • ix.it - Not resolving
  • jijr.com - Doesn't appear to be a shortener, now parked
  • joomlagyar.hu/usb - DNS not resolving
  • jump.to - dead as of February 1, 2013
  • kissa.be - "Kissa.be url shortener service is shutdown"
  • kl.am - "kl.am Closes its Shell"
  • kuijt.nu - replaced with unrelated site
  • kurl.us - Parked.
  • lk.to
  • lnkurl.com - Website dead
  • marv.ly - DNS fails to resolve.
  • mash.to - Cannot connect.
  • memurl.com - Pronounceable. Broken.
  • me.lt - Connection refused.
  • mens.hm - Not responding (timeout)
  • miklos.dk - Doesn't appear guessable: http://miklos.dk/!z7bA6a - "Vi arbejder på sagen..."
  • mindless.co
  • minilien.com - Doesn't appear guessable: http://minilien.com/?9nyvwnA0gh - Website dead
  • minim.in - Times out
  • minurl.org - Presently in ERROR 404
  • ms.me - Parked.
  • msplinks.com - Used by Myspace[2]
  • mtw.tl - everything 403s
  • muhlink.com - Not resolving
  • myloc.me
  • mytinyurl.com - redirects to an unrelated image
  • myurl.us - cpanel frontend
  • myurl.in
  • myv.bz - Not resolving
  • nyturl.com - NY Times (bonus points for being longer than nyt.com, which they own). Taken by squatters
  • onvzi.com - DNS fails to resolve.
  • otf.me - Empty WordPress site
  • ping.fm - Fails to resolve.
  • pln.so - Not working.
  • plzretwt.me - Fails to resolve.
  • pnt.me - Doesn't appear guessable, too big a space to bruteforce: http://pnt.me/FzAblc
  • pulsene.ws - Expired. Parked by GoDaddy.
  • re.ad - Fails to resolve.
  • redirx.com - Lowercase alpha only, appears sequential or guessable - Ex: http://redirx.com/?wyok. Website still online but does not resolve existing URLs nor does it allow creating new ones (responds with the message: blame the spammers)
  • see.sc - Fails to resolve.
  • s.me - Domain parked.
  • say.ly - redirects to unrelated site
  • s3nt.com - Probably sequential. http://s3nt.com/aa goes somewhere different from /ab . Domain parked.
  • shortlinks.co.uk - Working again. Maybe not.
  • short.to - Domain is parked - Probably sequential/loweralpha: http://short.to/msmp
  • shrinklink.co.uk - Doesn't appear sequential: http://www.shrinklink.co.uk/45bmx , www.shrinklink.co.uk/npk6xp . Domain parked.
  • shrtn.us - myshorturls.appspot.com. 404, does not resolve
  • simurl.com - Doesn't appear guessable - Ex: http://simurl.com/panpes. Website is blank; does not resolve URLs ("This SimURL is now inactive")
  • smf.is - DNS not resolving.
  • sns.mx - SNS Analytics, domain parked
  • sq.com - Now redirects to Singapore Airlines.
  • surl.hu
  • tiny.ly - DNS not resolving.
  • tm.to - Twtmore has "flown away"
  • to.gg - Global Giving, everything 503s
  • traceurl.com - DNS fails to resolve.
  • tr.im (1st generation) - "Be back soon!"
  • tweetburner.com / twurl.nl - Appears incremental, everything 404s
  • twixar.com - "Estamos fora do ar por algum tempo, mas estamos trabalhando para voltar a oferecer o serviço para encurtar URLs longa em breve!"
  • twthpr.co - DNS not resolving.
  • twitpwr.com - Domain parked.
  • twitt.hu
  • u.mavrev.com - Stopped accepting new urls. Now times out
  • u.nu - "The shortest URLs. period." Website dead since at least 1st of october 2010 (http://web.archive.org/web/20100104023208/http://u.nu/)
  • url9.com - Sequential, alphanumeric. Leading 0s are significant. "The site is working correctly."
  • urlborg.com - 404 Not Found.
  • urlcover.com - Domain parked.
  • urlhawk.com - Domain parked.
  • url-press.com - Suspended by web host.
  • urlsinn.com - DNS not resolving.
  • urlsmash.com - DNS not resolving.
  • urltea.com - Dreamhost's coming soon page.
  • urlvi.be - Domain parked.
  • urlx.org - Owner has agreed to share his database
  • uxp.in - still resolves URLs, but site just shows blank page. Domain parked.
  • vibemag.co - Vibe Magazine. Times out
  • vsb.li / links.visibli.com/links/ - The latter uses truncated md5 hex string. See sharedby.co.
  • w3t.org - 403 Forbidden.
  • wlink.us - Domain parked.
  • wl.tl - DNS not resolving.
  • wwy.me
  • xaddr.com - Domain parked.
  • xil.in - Under construction.
  • x.se - Cannot resolve, but www.x.se works.
  • xym.kr - Gibberish (?) Korean text blog.
  • y.ahoo.it - Yahoo
  • yweb.com - Suspicious iframe with long url and fake loading gif image.
  • zi.ma - DNS not resolving.
  • zip.sm - was a redirect to joturl.com. Now times out

Discontinued

  • adjix.com - Still resolves URLs, but site does not work: "The requested application was not found on this server." - Is static host on AWS service.[6]
  • feedly.com/e/ - realized that URL shorteners were bad [7]. Non-cooperative.
  • metamark.net / xrl.us - no longer allowing new urls to be shortened, existing urls still work (Ex. http://xrl.us/bfabog). Uploaded a database dump to Internet archive.
  • urlbrief.com - co-operates with 301Works.org

Archives

Check out Audit2014 and help audit the archives. In particular, the stuff not on Internet Archive needs to be uploaded.

  • See the latest torrent release for URLs before Tinytown. A copy is available at URLTeamTorrentRelease2013July
  • Tinytown results are uploaded to the Internet Archive. They are incremental, so you will need to download them all to get all URLs.
    • They are formatted as follows:
      • Each IA item (which can be downloaded in full via BitTorrent or as a zip file) contains multiple zip files, named PROJECT_NAME.TIMESTAMP.zip (where PROJECT_NAME is the warrior project name (as listed in the table below, and on http://tracker.archiveteam.org:1337/status) and TIMESTAMP is a dash-separated timestamp matching the name of the item.
      • Each zip file contains a subdirectory matching the PROJECT_NAME, which contains a file named PROJECT_NAME.meta.json.xz and one or more files whose names start with one or more underscores, followed by .txt.xz.
      • The xz files can be decompressed with the wikipedia:XZ Utils.
      • The meta.json file is a copy of the project settings (as linked from the table below) at the time the dump was made.
      • The txt files contain the actual URLs, in BEACON format.
      • The simple description of BEACON format is that each line (except for a few header lines) consists of the shortcode, followed by a vertical bar, followed by the original URL.

References

Weblinks

Common URL shortening software

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