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! Shortener | ! Shortener | ||
! Last Checked on | ! Last Checked on | ||
! Notes | ! Notes | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 1o2.ir | | 1o2.ir | ||
| 2016-05-15 | | 2016-05-15 | ||
| site is in Arabic (I think); seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) | | site is in Arabic (I think); seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2tag.nl | | 2tag.nl | ||
| 2016-05-15 | | 2016-05-15 | ||
| seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) | | seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 9en.us | | 9en.us | ||
| 2016-05-15 | | 2016-05-15 | ||
| appears to charge for creating shorturls; seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) | | appears to charge for creating shorturls; seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| ad7.biz | | ad7.biz | ||
| 2016-05-15 | | 2016-05-15 | ||
| pays short URL creators; seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) | | pays short URL creators; seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| adf.ly | | adf.ly | ||
| 2015-11-10 | | 2015-11-10 | ||
| incremental, but displays interstitial ads, so requires custom code; Ex: http://adf . ly/bnpYL ; http://adf . ly/1RP4DP (current as of 01:38, 10 November 2015 (EST)) (alias q.gs ) | | incremental, but displays interstitial ads, so requires custom code; Ex: http://adf . ly/bnpYL ; http://adf . ly/1RP4DP (current as of 01:38, 10 November 2015 (EST)) (alias q.gs ) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| adfoc.us | | adfoc.us | ||
| | | | ||
| displays interstitial ads; appears to block curl; so requires custom code | | displays interstitial ads; appears to block curl; so requires custom code | ||
|- | |- | ||
| asso.in | | asso.in | ||
| 2016-05-15 | | 2016-05-15 | ||
| seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) | | seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| at5.us | | at5.us | ||
| 2016-05-15 | | 2016-05-15 | ||
| seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) | | seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| at.cmt.com | | at.cmt.com | ||
| | | | ||
| Country Music Television - Appears to be a vanity domain hosted on ow.ly infrastructure. | | Country Music Television - Appears to be a vanity domain hosted on ow.ly infrastructure. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| b23 dot ru | | b23 dot ru | ||
| 2016-01-02 | | 2016-01-02 | ||
| seems alive as of 15:05, 2 January 2016 (EST) | | seems alive as of 15:05, 2 January 2016 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| bc.vc | | bc.vc | ||
| | | | ||
| displays interstitial ads ; Example: http://bc . vc/8nCbMs | | displays interstitial ads ; Example: http://bc . vc/8nCbMs | ||
|- | |- | ||
| bernie.to | | bernie.to | ||
| 2016-03-21 | | 2016-03-21 | ||
| No public method for creating shortcodes. Homepage redirects to campaign homepage. 307 Proxy Redirect for (vaild) bernie.to/pb and /vol and same status code for invalid shortcode. Seems to all be custom names, according to those used on reddit: http://reddit.com/domain/bernie.to As of 17:24, 21 March 2016 (EDT) | | No public method for creating shortcodes. Homepage redirects to campaign homepage. 307 Proxy Redirect for (vaild) bernie.to/pb and /vol and same status code for invalid shortcode. Seems to all be custom names, according to those used on reddit: http://reddit.com/domain/bernie.to As of 17:24, 21 March 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| budurl.com | | budurl.com | ||
| 2015-12-06 | | 2015-12-06 | ||
| Appears non-incremental, apparently all custom names; only paying clients allowed to create URLs (checked as of 02:03, 7 December 2015 (EST)) | | Appears non-incremental, apparently all custom names; only paying clients allowed to create URLs (checked as of 02:03, 7 December 2015 (EST)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| buff.ly | | buff.ly | ||
| 2015-12-07 | | 2015-12-07 | ||
| Buffer App ; ex: http://buff . ly/1fPIjQf (301 - existing; 404 - non-existing), non-incremental (checked as of 02:03, 7 December 2015 (EST)) | | Buffer App ; ex: http://buff . ly/1fPIjQf (301 - existing; 404 - non-existing), non-incremental (checked as of 02:03, 7 December 2015 (EST)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| buzurl.com | | buzurl.com | ||
| 2015-12-19 | | 2015-12-19 | ||
| Example: http://buzurl . com/li04 ; link broken, home page is blank as of 23:40, 19 December 2015 (EST) | | Example: http://buzurl . com/li04 ; link broken, home page is blank as of 23:40, 19 December 2015 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| canurl.com | | canurl.com | ||
| 2016-01-02 | | 2016-01-02 | ||
| Contains various random essays on URL shortening & spam; not clear if the shortener still exists as of 15:05, 2 January 2016 (EST) | | Contains various random essays on URL shortening & spam; not clear if the shortener still exists as of 15:05, 2 January 2016 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| cl.ly | | cl.ly | ||
| | | | ||
| CloudApp ; requires application to create short URLs | | CloudApp ; requires application to create short URLs | ||
|- | |- | ||
| cur.lv (CoinURL.com) | | cur.lv (CoinURL.com) | ||
| | | | ||
| Subdomains include: bit, go, in, jump, link, me, my, n, name, now, to. | | Subdomains include: bit, go, in, jump, link, me, my, n, name, now, to. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| decenturl.com | | decenturl.com | ||
| 2016-02-10 | | 2016-02-10 | ||
| Makes human-readable URLs from page titles; not at all easy to scrape. Requires one-time payment and registration to create URLs as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) | | Makes human-readable URLs from page titles; not at all easy to scrape. Requires one-time payment and registration to create URLs as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| del.ly | | del.ly | ||
| | | | ||
| sprinklr | | sprinklr | ||
|- | |- | ||
| dfl8.me | | dfl8.me | ||
| 2016-02-10 | | 2016-02-10 | ||
| previously had an archive of created URLs; requires a (broken) captcha to create URLs as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) | | previously had an archive of created URLs; requires a (broken) captcha to create URLs as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| digbig.com | | digbig.com | ||
| 2016-02-10 | | 2016-02-10 | ||
| no longer accepting new users as of March 1, 2014; site appears to still be up as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) | | no longer accepting new users as of March 1, 2014; site appears to still be up as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| dlvr.it | | dlvr.it | ||
| 2015-11-02 | | 2015-11-02 | ||
| Requires free login; then requires connecting to another service; URLs are shortened when sent through. ( as of 01:36, 2 November 2015 (EST)) | | Requires free login; then requires connecting to another service; URLs are shortened when sent through. ( as of 01:36, 2 November 2015 (EST)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| dogeurl.com | | dogeurl.com | ||
| 2015-12-21 | | 2015-12-21 | ||
| Alive 12-21-2015 Non-incremental, alphabet A-Z a-z 0-9, 6 characters long, with custom option Valid: 301 to destination, Invalid: 302 to https://dogeurl.com/invalid.php | | Alive 12-21-2015 Non-incremental, alphabet A-Z a-z 0-9, 6 characters long, with custom option Valid: 301 to destination, Invalid: 302 to https://dogeurl.com/invalid.php | ||
|- | |- | ||
| doiop.com | | doiop.com | ||
| 2016-02-10 | | 2016-02-10 | ||
| Appears non-incremental ; allows unicode in short codes; appears alive as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) | | Appears non-incremental ; allows unicode in short codes; appears alive as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| durl.me | | durl.me | ||
| 2015-11-21 | | 2015-11-21 | ||
| appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST) | | appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| easyurl.net | | easyurl.net | ||
| 2016-02-10 | | 2016-02-10 | ||
| (alias: atu.ca , readthis.ca , clickthru.ca , redirects.ca ) Appears non-incremental; only available to customers of easyDNS.com ; Ex: http://easyurl.net/afd2f ; seems alive as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) | | (alias: atu.ca , readthis.ca , clickthru.ca , redirects.ca ) Appears non-incremental; only available to customers of easyDNS.com ; Ex: http://easyurl.net/afd2f ; seems alive as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| fav.me | | fav.me | ||
| | | | ||
| Used by DeviantArt. Ex: http://fav . me/d31sfml | | Used by DeviantArt. Ex: http://fav . me/d31sfml | ||
|- | |- | ||
| filoops.info | | filoops.info | ||
| 2016-01-29 | | 2016-01-29 | ||
| Appears to allow public shortening; seems alive as of 01:15, 29 January 2016 (EST) | | Appears to allow public shortening; seems alive as of 01:15, 29 January 2016 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| firsturl.de | | firsturl.de | ||
| 2016-02-17 | | 2016-02-17 | ||
| Appears alive and allowing public shortening as of 01:20, 17 February 2016 (EST) | | Appears alive and allowing public shortening as of 01:20, 17 February 2016 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| flip.it | | flip.it | ||
| | | | ||
| Flipboard | | Flipboard | ||
|- | |- | ||
| flpbd.it | | flpbd.it | ||
| | | | ||
| Flipboard | | Flipboard | ||
|- | |- | ||
| fnd.us | | fnd.us | ||
| | | | ||
| (See offical shorteners) | | (See offical shorteners) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| fos.hu | | fos.hu | ||
| | | | ||
| incremental alphanumeric, but shares pattern with an image sharing service | | incremental alphanumeric, but shares pattern with an image sharing service | ||
|- | |- | ||
| gkurl.us | | gkurl.us | ||
| 2015-11-21 | | 2015-11-21 | ||
| appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST) | | appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| gdurl.com | | gdurl.com | ||
| | | | ||
| allows public shortening of Google Drive public-linked files, example http://gdurl.com/s3tF , not sequential (jumped from http://gdurl.com/8T-v to http://gdurl.com/s3tF when tried two different files seconds after each other), 236,285 urls shortened as of 18:29, 24 February 2016 (EST) , has a public list of "all" permalinks - note this appears to be inaccurate (there is an option to not make the link public in the list when it is created) | | allows public shortening of Google Drive public-linked files, example http://gdurl.com/s3tF , not sequential (jumped from http://gdurl.com/8T-v to http://gdurl.com/s3tF when tried two different files seconds after each other), 236,285 urls shortened as of 18:29, 24 February 2016 (EST) , has a public list of "all" permalinks - note this appears to be inaccurate (there is an option to not make the link public in the list when it is created) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| -H- | | -H- | ||
| | | | ||
| none that start with h | | none that start with h | ||
|- | |- | ||
| idek.net | | idek.net | ||
| 2016-03-13 | | 2016-03-13 | ||
| seems alive, allows public shortening as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT) | | seems alive, allows public shortening as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| ity.im | | ity.im | ||
| 2015-12-19 | | 2015-12-19 | ||
| shows adverts, not clear if it still works as of 23:40, 19 December 2015 (EST) | | shows adverts, not clear if it still works as of 23:40, 19 December 2015 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| -J- | | -J- | ||
| | | | ||
| none that start with j yet. | | none that start with j yet. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| kics.it | | kics.it | ||
| | | | ||
| Restricted access to shourturl creation | | Restricted access to shourturl creation | ||
|- | |- | ||
| l9k.net | | l9k.net | ||
| 2016-03-13 | | 2016-03-13 | ||
| seems alive, allows public shortening as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT) | | seems alive, allows public shortening as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| lien2.com | | lien2.com | ||
| 2015-11-29 | | 2015-11-29 | ||
| http://lien2 . com/go/a6cx ; seems-non-incremental, only 583 shortened urls (as of 02:27, 29 November 2015 (EST) ) | | http://lien2 . com/go/a6cx ; seems-non-incremental, only 583 shortened urls (as of 02:27, 29 November 2015 (EST) ) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| linkbucks.com | | linkbucks.com | ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
|- | |- | ||
| linkbun.ch | | linkbun.ch | ||
| 2016-03-14 | | 2016-03-14 | ||
| combines multiple URLs into one short URL, probably requires custom code -- 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT) | | combines multiple URLs into one short URL, probably requires custom code -- 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| lin.io | | lin.io | ||
| 2015-12-07 | | 2015-12-07 | ||
| uses frame/toolbar (site is alive as of 01:09, 7 December 2015 (EST)) | | uses frame/toolbar (site is alive as of 01:09, 7 December 2015 (EST)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| ln.is | | ln.is | ||
| 2015-12-12 | | 2015-12-12 | ||
| linkis.com (also provides a way to comment on the linked page) ; ex: http://ln . is/vine.co/v/UA0PH -- the destination server appears to be included in the shortcode, which should make it harder to scrape (as of 02:56, 12 December 2015 (EST)) | | linkis.com (also provides a way to comment on the linked page) ; ex: http://ln . is/vine.co/v/UA0PH -- the destination server appears to be included in the shortcode, which should make it harder to scrape (as of 02:56, 12 December 2015 (EST)) | ||
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| lnq.me | | lnq.me | ||
| 2015-11-21 | | 2015-11-21 | ||
| 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) ) | | 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) ) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| lt.tl | | lt.tl | ||
| 2015-12-09 | | 2015-12-09 | ||
| site is up, says "Service will be back soon..." as of 01:31, 9 December 2015 (EST) | | site is up, says "Service will be back soon..." as of 01:31, 9 December 2015 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| ly.my | | ly.my | ||
| 2015-12-07 | | 2015-12-07 | ||
| alive as of 01:09, 7 December 2015 (EST) | | alive as of 01:09, 7 December 2015 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| m112.hu | | m112.hu | ||
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|- | |- | ||
| me2.hu | | me2.hu | ||
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|- | |- | ||
| macte.ch | | macte.ch | ||
| 2016-03-14 | | 2016-03-14 | ||
| seems alive, allows public shortening as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT) | | seems alive, allows public shortening as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| mcaf.ee | | mcaf.ee | ||
| 2016-04-29 | | 2016-04-29 | ||
| seems alive as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT) | | seems alive as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| merky.de | | merky.de | ||
| 2016-03-14 | | 2016-03-14 | ||
| seems alive, allows public shortening as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT) | | seems alive, allows public shortening as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| mgnet.me | | mgnet.me | ||
| | | | ||
| for torrent magnet URIs. | | for torrent magnet URIs. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| miniurl.hu | | miniurl.hu | ||
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|- | |- | ||
| MinURL.fr | | MinURL.fr | ||
| 2015-12-09 | | 2015-12-09 | ||
| site alive as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST) | | site alive as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| moourl.com | | moourl.com | ||
| 2016-03-14 | | 2016-03-14 | ||
| Random (alive as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)) | | Random (alive as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| my.dot.tk/tweak | | my.dot.tk/tweak | ||
| | | | ||
| Appears non-incremental | | Appears non-incremental | ||
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| nblo.gs | | nblo.gs | ||
| 2015-11-07 | | 2015-11-07 | ||
| no obvious way to create URLs from the home page as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST) | | no obvious way to create URLs from the home page as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| nbx.ch | | nbx.ch | ||
| 2015-12-09 | | 2015-12-09 | ||
| private shortener; appears up as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST) | | private shortener; appears up as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| news.me | | news.me | ||
| 2015-11-07 | | 2015-11-07 | ||
| no obvious way to create URLs from the home page as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST) | | no obvious way to create URLs from the home page as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| nohref.hu | | nohref.hu | ||
| | | | ||
| Allows custom shorturl & deletes links after a specified time period (or 1 year without use) | | Allows custom shorturl & deletes links after a specified time period (or 1 year without use) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| notlong.com | | notlong.com | ||
| 2015-11-07 | | 2015-11-07 | ||
| 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) | | 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 | | nutshellurl.com | ||
| 2016-03-20 | | 2016-03-20 | ||
| Appears incremental. 301s to a redirector script, which then 301s you to the destination. Seems alive as of 14:59, 20 March 2016 (EDT) | | Appears incremental. 301s to a redirector script, which then 301s you to the destination. Seems alive as of 14:59, 20 March 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| -O- | | -O- | ||
| | | | ||
| none that start with o, yet | | none that start with o, yet | ||
|- | |- | ||
| p.pw | | p.pw | ||
| 2015-11-07 | | 2015-11-07 | ||
| sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) | | sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| pear.ly | | pear.ly | ||
| 2015-12-05 | | 2015-12-05 | ||
| Used by pearltrees.com. Ex: http://pear.ly/6J1H (returns 301 for existing AND non-existing shorturls as of 15:30, 5 December 2015 (EST)) | | Used by pearltrees.com. Ex: http://pear.ly/6J1H (returns 301 for existing AND non-existing shorturls as of 15:30, 5 December 2015 (EST)) | ||
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| pnut.co | | pnut.co | ||
| | | | ||
| see nutshellurl.com Ex: http://pnut.co/3a (returns 200 on a HEAD request; will need to use GET requests) | | see nutshellurl.com Ex: http://pnut.co/3a (returns 200 on a HEAD request; will need to use GET requests) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| po.st | | po.st | ||
| 2015-11-07 | | 2015-11-07 | ||
| "social sharing platform"; no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) | | "social sharing platform"; no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| poeurl.com | | poeurl.com | ||
| 2015-12-21 | | 2015-12-21 | ||
| Path of Exile URL Shortener - Public interface, but with a whitelist of sites. Appears to be incremental, and a small set so far. Alphabet is A-Z a-z 0-9, three characters as of 12-21-2015. Valid URLs: poeurl.com/uFg, HTTP 301 w/ Location: header. Invalid: HTTP 301 to Location: home.php?e=invalidurl | | Path of Exile URL Shortener - Public interface, but with a whitelist of sites. Appears to be incremental, and a small set so far. Alphabet is A-Z a-z 0-9, three characters as of 12-21-2015. Valid URLs: poeurl.com/uFg, HTTP 301 w/ Location: header. Invalid: HTTP 301 to Location: home.php?e=invalidurl | ||
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| prettylinkpro.com | | prettylinkpro.com | ||
| 2016-02-10 | | 2016-02-10 | ||
| "Affiliate Link Cloaker and URL Shortener for WordPress"; doesn't seem to provide public shortening; unclear what the short URLs look like; site appears alive as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST) | | "Affiliate Link Cloaker and URL Shortener for WordPress"; doesn't seem to provide public shortening; unclear what the short URLs look like; site appears alive as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST) | ||
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| prsm.tc | | prsm.tc | ||
| | | | ||
| getprismatic.com ; ex: http://prsm.tc/GB2HP2 -> http://getprismatic.com/story/1428656915049?share=MzY4MjEx.MTQyODY1NjkxNTA0OQ.gH9aD6dy4y7zDFgIYQcLrW9KaeE -> (via some convoluted mess) http://scvincent.com/2015/04/10/when-reviews-really-matter/ ; non-redirects still get redirected to http://getprismatic.com/404 | | getprismatic.com ; ex: http://prsm.tc/GB2HP2 -> http://getprismatic.com/story/1428656915049?share=MzY4MjEx.MTQyODY1NjkxNTA0OQ.gH9aD6dy4y7zDFgIYQcLrW9KaeE -> (via some convoluted mess) http://scvincent.com/2015/04/10/when-reviews-really-matter/ ; non-redirects still get redirected to http://getprismatic.com/404 | ||
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| ptiturl.com | | ptiturl.com | ||
| 2016-03-20 | | 2016-03-20 | ||
| appears to be in French; seems alive and allowing public shortening as of 14:59, 20 March 2016 (EDT) | | appears to be in French; seems alive and allowing public shortening as of 14:59, 20 March 2016 (EDT) | ||
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| qik.li | | qik.li | ||
| 2015-12-12 | | 2015-12-12 | ||
| site appears to allow public shortening as of 02:24, 12 December 2015 (EST) | | site appears to allow public shortening as of 02:24, 12 December 2015 (EST) | ||
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| qr.net | | qr.net | ||
| 2016-02-10 | | 2016-02-10 | ||
| has a redirect from http://3.ly (but other pages on 3.ly seem to redirect to a parking page, http://www.threely.com ) ex: qr.net/bpEjJ & qr.net/bitdo ; allows public shortening; 6,270,241 made as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST) | | has a redirect from http://3.ly (but other pages on 3.ly seem to redirect to a parking page, http://www.threely.com ) ex: qr.net/bpEjJ & qr.net/bitdo ; allows public shortening; 6,270,241 made as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| qurl.com | | qurl.com | ||
| 2015-12-10 | | 2015-12-10 | ||
| site appears to allow public shortening as of 01:03, 10 December 2015 (EST) (also runs a image sharing service) | | site appears to allow public shortening as of 01:03, 10 December 2015 (EST) (also runs a image sharing service) | ||
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| r.ebay.com | | r.ebay.com | ||
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|- | |- | ||
| rlu dot ru | | rlu dot ru | ||
| 2016-05-15 | | 2016-05-15 | ||
| seems alive as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT) - Allows creation of new shortlinks, does not appear to allow custom shortlinks. Currently issues 4 characters, older links use 3 characters, appears to use [a-zA-Z0-9]*, seems to be sequential: http://rlu . ru/TDzw http://rlu . ru/TDzz Valid returns 301 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 404 (GET and HEAD). (as of 17:18, 15 May 2016 (EDT)) | | seems alive as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT) - Allows creation of new shortlinks, does not appear to allow custom shortlinks. Currently issues 4 characters, older links use 3 characters, appears to use [a-zA-Z0-9]*, seems to be sequential: http://rlu . ru/TDzw http://rlu . ru/TDzz Valid returns 301 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 404 (GET and HEAD). (as of 17:18, 15 May 2016 (EDT)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| s7y.us | | s7y.us | ||
| 2016-03-20 | | 2016-03-20 | ||
| seems alive and allowing public shortening as of 14:59, 20 March 2016 (EDT) | | seems alive and allowing public shortening as of 14:59, 20 March 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| safe.mn | | safe.mn | ||
| 2016-04-03 | | 2016-04-03 | ||
| Claims to provide archive of shortened URLs at safe.mn/static/safemn.zip ; seems alive as of 01:12, 3 April 2016 (EDT) | | Claims to provide archive of shortened URLs at safe.mn/static/safemn.zip ; seems alive as of 01:12, 3 April 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| sdai.ly | | sdai.ly | ||
| | | | ||
| Allows custom shorturl | | Allows custom shorturl | ||
|- | |- | ||
| shadyurl.com | | shadyurl.com | ||
| 2016-04-12 | | 2016-04-12 | ||
| Complex, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 301 (Empty location), ex.: http://www.5z8 dot info/trojan_sunz http://www.5z8 dot info/how-to-stop-immigration-for-good.pdf_w7g7no_yourdick (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | | Complex, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 301 (Empty location), ex.: http://www.5z8 dot info/trojan_sunz http://www.5z8 dot info/how-to-stop-immigration-for-good.pdf_w7g7no_yourdick (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| shorl dot com | | shorl dot com | ||
| 2016-04-12 | | 2016-04-12 | ||
| <s>Doesn't appear guessable</s>, Alphabet is "Koremutake", an alphabet of 128 phonetically unique phonemes, which is documented here: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/599ba4c17599cd213005. Will need custom code to accommodate a custom alphabet, but it is absolutely guessable. Random, Valid: 200 (No Location header), Invalid: 404, http://shorl dot com/[a-z]{13}, ex.: http://shorl dot com/tisikestibahu http://shorl dot com/stugipenefife (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | | <s>Doesn't appear guessable</s>, Alphabet is "Koremutake", an alphabet of 128 phonetically unique phonemes, which is documented here: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/599ba4c17599cd213005. Will need custom code to accommodate a custom alphabet, but it is absolutely guessable. Random, Valid: 200 (No Location header), Invalid: 404, http://shorl dot com/[a-z]{13}, ex.: http://shorl dot com/tisikestibahu http://shorl dot com/stugipenefife (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| shorte.st | | shorte.st | ||
| | | | ||
| sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape | | sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape | ||
|- | |- | ||
| shorturl.com | | shorturl.com | ||
| 2016-04-12 | | 2016-04-12 | ||
| Random, Valid: 302 (Location header correct), Invalid: 200, http://alturl dot com/[a-z0-9]{5}, ex.: http://alturl dot com/j5vmv (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | | Random, Valid: 302 (Location header correct), Invalid: 200, http://alturl dot com/[a-z0-9]{5}, ex.: http://alturl dot com/j5vmv (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| shrinkurl.us | | shrinkurl.us | ||
| | | | ||
| Still resolves, but does not allow creating new URLs ("The URL you entered was not valid or did not exist.") | | Still resolves, but does not allow creating new URLs ("The URL you entered was not valid or did not exist.") | ||
|- | |- | ||
| smallr.net | | smallr.net | ||
| 2016-04-12 | | 2016-04-12 | ||
| Likely sequential, Allows custom URLs, Must include trailing '/', Valid: 301 (Location correct), Invalid: 404, http://smallr.net/[a-z0-9]{1-4}/, ex.: http://smallr.net/5em/ (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | | Likely sequential, Allows custom URLs, Must include trailing '/', Valid: 301 (Location correct), Invalid: 404, http://smallr.net/[a-z0-9]{1-4}/, ex.: http://smallr.net/5em/ (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| smarturl.eu / joturl.com | | smarturl.eu / joturl.com | ||
| | | | ||
| Doesn't appear guessable, HTML redirect. | | Doesn't appear guessable, HTML redirect. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| smarturl.it | | smarturl.it | ||
| | | | ||
| smartURL | | smartURL | ||
|- | |- | ||
| smurl.name | | smurl.name | ||
| 2016-04-12 | | 2016-04-12 | ||
| 60 seconds ads, Random, ex.: http://smurl.name/yMuzr (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | | 60 seconds ads, Random, ex.: http://smurl.name/yMuzr (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| soa.li | | soa.li | ||
| | | | ||
| Gigya inc. | | Gigya inc. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| soc.li | | soc.li | ||
| | | | ||
| Gigya inc. | | Gigya inc. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| soli.dm | | soli.dm | ||
| 2015-12-16 | | 2015-12-16 | ||
| Solid Media Group - Domain registered 2014-05-26, Google search shows 566 results as of 12-16-2015. Alphabet: A-Z a-z 0-9 (typically 5 characters long). Valid HTTP Code is 301, invalid is 404. Nonsequential shorturls, no public ability to create shorturls. | | Solid Media Group - Domain registered 2014-05-26, Google search shows 566 results as of 12-16-2015. Alphabet: A-Z a-z 0-9 (typically 5 characters long). Valid HTTP Code is 301, invalid is 404. Nonsequential shorturls, no public ability to create shorturls. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| sp2.ro | | sp2.ro | ||
| 2016-04-12 | | 2016-04-12 | ||
| Likely random, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 302, http://sp2.ro/[a-f0-9]{6}, ex.: http://sp2.ro/d05889 (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | | Likely random, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 302, http://sp2.ro/[a-f0-9]{6}, ex.: http://sp2.ro/d05889 (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| spnsr.tw | | spnsr.tw | ||
| | | | ||
| sponsoredtweets.com | | sponsoredtweets.com | ||
|- | |- | ||
| surl.co.uk | | surl.co.uk | ||
| | | | ||
| Many shortening options. | | Many shortening options. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| t1p.de / ogy.de / 0cn.de / kurzelinks.de | | t1p.de / ogy.de / 0cn.de / kurzelinks.de | ||
| 2016-03-15 | | 2016-03-15 | ||
| Alive as of 11:17, 15 March 2016 (EDT); http://t1p(dot)de/ggl, non-sequential, custom URLs possible; Valid returns HTTP 302 with Location set; Invalid returns HTTP 301 to error page with requested shortener URL in Location header | | Alive as of 11:17, 15 March 2016 (EDT); http://t1p(dot)de/ggl, non-sequential, custom URLs possible; Valid returns HTTP 302 with Location set; Invalid returns HTTP 301 to error page with requested shortener URL in Location header | ||
|- | |- | ||
| techme.me | | techme.me | ||
| | | | ||
| Techmeme | | Techmeme | ||
|- | |- | ||
| tinyarrows.com / ta.gd / ri.ms / ➡.ws / ➨.ws / ➯.ws / ➔.ws / ➞.ws / ➽.ws / ➹.ws / ✩.ws / ✿.ws / ❥.ws / ›.ws / ⌘.ws / ‽.ws / ☁.ws | | 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) | | Appears non-incremental: uses user-defined words for URLs (e.g. http://➡.ws/URLTEAM) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| tiny.cc | | tiny.cc | ||
| 2015-12-12 | | 2015-12-12 | ||
| Appears non-incremental (alive as of 18:21, 12 December 2015 (EST)) | | Appears non-incremental (alive as of 18:21, 12 December 2015 (EST)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| tiny.ly | | tiny.ly | ||
| 2016-01-01 | | 2016-01-01 | ||
| Appears alive as of 04:09, 1 January 2016 (EST) | | Appears alive as of 04:09, 1 January 2016 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| totesz.hu/x | | totesz.hu/x | ||
| | | | ||
| Allows custom shorturl | | Allows custom shorturl | ||
|- | |- | ||
| trib.al (alias: gizmo.do ) | | trib.al (alias: gizmo.do ) | ||
| | | | ||
| Does not appear to allow public creation of new short-URLs; owned by SocialFlow | | Does not appear to allow public creation of new short-URLs; owned by SocialFlow | ||
|- | |- | ||
| twitthis.com | | twitthis.com | ||
| 2015-11-07 | | 2015-11-07 | ||
| requires a Twitter account to create shortURLs (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) | | requires a Twitter account to create shortURLs (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| twiturl dot de | | twiturl dot de | ||
| 2016-04-12 | | 2016-04-12 | ||
| Custom urls only?, goes via two redirects, Valid: 302 (Location ends with '&loc=LINK', LINK is the original URL), Invalid: 302 (Location ends with '&loc=http://www dot twiturl.de'), ex.:http://twiturl dot de/gudet (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | | Custom urls only?, goes via two redirects, Valid: 302 (Location ends with '&loc=LINK', LINK is the original URL), Invalid: 302 (Location ends with '&loc=http://www dot twiturl.de'), ex.:http://twiturl dot de/gudet (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| trunc.it | | trunc.it | ||
| 2015-12-12 | | 2015-12-12 | ||
| closed, but still resolving existing URLs as of 17:43, 12 December 2015 (EST); http://trunc . it/pssga ; returns 301 for existing and non-existing shortcodes | | closed, but still resolving existing URLs as of 17:43, 12 December 2015 (EST); http://trunc . it/pssga ; returns 301 for existing and non-existing shortcodes | ||
|- | |- | ||
| untiny.me | | untiny.me | ||
| 2016-04-29 | | 2016-04-29 | ||
| seems alive as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT) | | seems alive as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| url.az | | url.az | ||
| 2016-04-29 | | 2016-04-29 | ||
| Pays for URLs shortened through it (presumably with ads, thereby likely more difficult to scrape) as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT) | | Pays for URLs shortened through it (presumably with ads, thereby likely more difficult to scrape) as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| url.ie | | url.ie | ||
| 2016-04-29 | | 2016-04-29 | ||
| Returns 302 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 404 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace has reached 4 characters. Alive as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT) | | Returns 302 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 404 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace has reached 4 characters. Alive as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| urlcut.com | | urlcut.com | ||
| 2015-12-05 | | 2015-12-05 | ||
| "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)) ; it returns 302 for both existing *AND* non-existing URLs, preventing its scraping with the default code (as of 00:49, 5 December 2015 (EST)) | | "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)) ; it returns 302 for both existing *AND* non-existing URLs, preventing its scraping with the default code (as of 00:49, 5 December 2015 (EST)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| usite.hu/link.php | | usite.hu/link.php | ||
| | | | ||
| Numeric incremental, public database | | Numeric incremental, public database | ||
|- | |- | ||
| u.to | | u.to | ||
| 2015-12-19 | | 2015-12-19 | ||
| requires GET (not HEAD) requests; returns 302 with target in Location header, 404 for invalid ; Example: http://u . to/HzA-Aw ; as of 23:40, 19 December 2015 (EST) | | requires GET (not HEAD) requests; returns 302 with target in Location header, 404 for invalid ; Example: http://u . to/HzA-Aw ; as of 23:40, 19 December 2015 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| viralurl.com (alias vur.me , viralurl.biz , vurl.bz , virl.ws ) | | viralurl.com (alias vur.me , viralurl.biz , vurl.bz , virl.ws ) | ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
|- | |- | ||
| vk.cc | | vk.cc | ||
| 2015-11-07 | | 2015-11-07 | ||
| no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) | | no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| vzturl.com | | vzturl.com | ||
| 2016-02-10 | | 2016-02-10 | ||
| example: http://vzturl.com/apa83 ; appears to allow public shortening, alive as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST) | | example: http://vzturl.com/apa83 ; appears to allow public shortening, alive as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| wapurl.co.uk | | wapurl.co.uk | ||
| 2016-04-29 | | 2016-04-29 | ||
| seems alive as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT) | | seems alive as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| wowurl.com | | wowurl.com | ||
| 2016-04-29 | | 2016-04-29 | ||
| Returns 302 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 200 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace has reached 5 characters. They supposedly have 540373 urls. Alive as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT) | | Returns 302 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 200 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace has reached 5 characters. They supposedly have 540373 urls. Alive as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| xurl.es | | xurl.es | ||
| 2016-05-15 | | 2016-05-15 | ||
| seems alive as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT) - Allows creation of new shortlinks, currently 5 characters (lowercase + digits), appears to be random. http://xurl . es/7dnv0 Allows converting a shortlink into a custom link. Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 302 with Location: http://xurl . es for both GET and HEAD. (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT)) | | seems alive as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT) - Allows creation of new shortlinks, currently 5 characters (lowercase + digits), appears to be random. http://xurl . es/7dnv0 Allows converting a shortlink into a custom link. Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 302 with Location: http://xurl . es for both GET and HEAD. (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| xxsURL.de | | xxsURL.de | ||
| 2016-04-14 | | 2016-04-14 | ||
| seems alive as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT) | | seems alive as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| y2u.be | | y2u.be | ||
| | | | ||
| meant for YouTube videos, simply redirects anything to the corresponding YouTube ID, i.e. http://www.y2u . be/7458qm becomes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7458qm (as such, not relevant to URLTeam) | | meant for YouTube videos, simply redirects anything to the corresponding YouTube ID, i.e. http://www.y2u . be/7458qm becomes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7458qm (as such, not relevant to URLTeam) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| yatuc.com | | yatuc.com | ||
| 2016-05-15 | | 2016-05-15 | ||
| seems alive as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT) - "temporarily disabled" but still resolves shortlinks. Shortlinks appear to be 3 characters (lowercase + digits + "_") (may be random judging from gaps) http://yatuc . com/u_k http://yatuc . com/vr0 Doesn't appear to allow custom shortlinks. Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 302 with Location: http://yatuc . com for both GET and HEAD (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT)) | | seems alive as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT) - "temporarily disabled" but still resolves shortlinks. Shortlinks appear to be 3 characters (lowercase + digits + "_") (may be random judging from gaps) http://yatuc . com/u_k http://yatuc . com/vr0 Doesn't appear to allow custom shortlinks. Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 302 with Location: http://yatuc . com for both GET and HEAD (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| yep.it | | yep.it | ||
| 2015-11-07 | | 2015-11-07 | ||
| allows custom shortcodes; validates provided URL; example: http://yep . it/bgnhpu ; seems non-incremental, only lowercase letters; appears to make the whole database available via: http://yep . it/stat.php?page=5719 (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) | | allows custom shortcodes; validates provided URL; example: http://yep . it/bgnhpu ; seems non-incremental, only lowercase letters; appears to make the whole database available via: http://yep . it/stat.php?page=5719 (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| zi.ma | | zi.ma | ||
| 2016-04-14 | | 2016-04-14 | ||
| DNS didn't resolve at one point, but seems alive (although it's not totally clear it offers url shortening) as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT) Appears to combine multiple URLs into one short URL (see linkbun.ch) | | DNS didn't resolve at one point, but seems alive (although it's not totally clear it offers url shortening) as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT) Appears to combine multiple URLs into one short URL (see linkbun.ch) | ||
|- | |- | ||
| zurl.ws | | zurl.ws | ||
| 2016-05-15 | | 2016-05-15 | ||
| seems alive as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT) - Currently cannot create account/shortlinks, resolves existing. Shortlinks appear to be 3 character (lowercase + digits), appears to be sequential (judging from patterns in sequential shorturls). Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 200 with error page. GET and HEAD (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT)) | | seems alive as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT) - Currently cannot create account/shortlinks, resolves existing. Shortlinks appear to be 3 character (lowercase + digits), appears to be sequential (judging from patterns in sequential shorturls). Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 200 with error page. GET and HEAD (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT)) | ||
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! Shortener | ! Shortener | ||
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! Notes | ! Notes | ||
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''' Official Shorteners ''' | ''' Official Shorteners ''' |
Revision as of 05:47, 17 May 2016
Can anyone think of any additional fields that would be useful to sort on?
Alive
Shortener | Last Checked on | Notes |
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1o2.ir | 2016-05-15 | site is in Arabic (I think); seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) |
2tag.nl | 2016-05-15 | seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) |
9en.us | 2016-05-15 | appears to charge for creating shorturls; seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) |
ad7.biz | 2016-05-15 | pays short URL creators; seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) |
adf.ly | 2015-11-10 | incremental, but displays interstitial ads, so requires custom code; Ex: http://adf . ly/bnpYL ; http://adf . ly/1RP4DP (current as of 01:38, 10 November 2015 (EST)) (alias q.gs ) |
adfoc.us | displays interstitial ads; appears to block curl; so requires custom code | |
asso.in | 2016-05-15 | seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) |
at5.us | 2016-05-15 | seems alive as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT) |
at.cmt.com | Country Music Television - Appears to be a vanity domain hosted on ow.ly infrastructure. | |
b23 dot ru | 2016-01-02 | seems alive as of 15:05, 2 January 2016 (EST) |
bc.vc | displays interstitial ads ; Example: http://bc . vc/8nCbMs | |
bernie.to | 2016-03-21 | No public method for creating shortcodes. Homepage redirects to campaign homepage. 307 Proxy Redirect for (vaild) bernie.to/pb and /vol and same status code for invalid shortcode. Seems to all be custom names, according to those used on reddit: http://reddit.com/domain/bernie.to As of 17:24, 21 March 2016 (EDT) |
budurl.com | 2015-12-06 | Appears non-incremental, apparently all custom names; only paying clients allowed to create URLs (checked as of 02:03, 7 December 2015 (EST)) |
buff.ly | 2015-12-07 | Buffer App ; ex: http://buff . ly/1fPIjQf (301 - existing; 404 - non-existing), non-incremental (checked as of 02:03, 7 December 2015 (EST)) |
buzurl.com | 2015-12-19 | Example: http://buzurl . com/li04 ; link broken, home page is blank as of 23:40, 19 December 2015 (EST) |
canurl.com | 2016-01-02 | Contains various random essays on URL shortening & spam; not clear if the shortener still exists as of 15:05, 2 January 2016 (EST) |
cl.ly | CloudApp ; requires application to create short URLs | |
cur.lv (CoinURL.com) | Subdomains include: bit, go, in, jump, link, me, my, n, name, now, to. | |
decenturl.com | 2016-02-10 | Makes human-readable URLs from page titles; not at all easy to scrape. Requires one-time payment and registration to create URLs as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) |
del.ly | sprinklr | |
dfl8.me | 2016-02-10 | previously had an archive of created URLs; requires a (broken) captcha to create URLs as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) |
digbig.com | 2016-02-10 | no longer accepting new users as of March 1, 2014; site appears to still be up as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) |
dlvr.it | 2015-11-02 | Requires free login; then requires connecting to another service; URLs are shortened when sent through. ( as of 01:36, 2 November 2015 (EST)) |
dogeurl.com | 2015-12-21 | Alive 12-21-2015 Non-incremental, alphabet A-Z a-z 0-9, 6 characters long, with custom option Valid: 301 to destination, Invalid: 302 to https://dogeurl.com/invalid.php |
doiop.com | 2016-02-10 | Appears non-incremental ; allows unicode in short codes; appears alive as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) |
durl.me | 2015-11-21 | appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST) |
easyurl.net | 2016-02-10 | (alias: atu.ca , readthis.ca , clickthru.ca , redirects.ca ) Appears non-incremental; only available to customers of easyDNS.com ; Ex: http://easyurl.net/afd2f ; seems alive as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST) |
fav.me | Used by DeviantArt. Ex: http://fav . me/d31sfml | |
filoops.info | 2016-01-29 | Appears to allow public shortening; seems alive as of 01:15, 29 January 2016 (EST) |
firsturl.de | 2016-02-17 | Appears alive and allowing public shortening as of 01:20, 17 February 2016 (EST) |
flip.it | ||
flpbd.it | ||
fnd.us | (See offical shorteners) | |
fos.hu | incremental alphanumeric, but shares pattern with an image sharing service | |
gkurl.us | 2015-11-21 | appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST) |
gdurl.com | allows public shortening of Google Drive public-linked files, example http://gdurl.com/s3tF , not sequential (jumped from http://gdurl.com/8T-v to http://gdurl.com/s3tF when tried two different files seconds after each other), 236,285 urls shortened as of 18:29, 24 February 2016 (EST) , has a public list of "all" permalinks - note this appears to be inaccurate (there is an option to not make the link public in the list when it is created) | |
-H- | none that start with h | |
idek.net | 2016-03-13 | seems alive, allows public shortening as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT) |
ity.im | 2015-12-19 | shows adverts, not clear if it still works as of 23:40, 19 December 2015 (EST) |
-J- | none that start with j yet. | |
kics.it | Restricted access to shourturl creation | |
l9k.net | 2016-03-13 | seems alive, allows public shortening as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT) |
lien2.com | 2015-11-29 | http://lien2 . com/go/a6cx ; seems-non-incremental, only 583 shortened urls (as of 02:27, 29 November 2015 (EST) ) |
linkbucks.com | ||
linkbun.ch | 2016-03-14 | combines multiple URLs into one short URL, probably requires custom code -- 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT) |
lin.io | 2015-12-07 | uses frame/toolbar (site is alive as of 01:09, 7 December 2015 (EST)) |
ln.is | 2015-12-12 | linkis.com (also provides a way to comment on the linked page) ; ex: http://ln . is/vine.co/v/UA0PH -- the destination server appears to be included in the shortcode, which should make it harder to scrape (as of 02:56, 12 December 2015 (EST)) |
lnq.me | 2015-11-21 | 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) ) |
lt.tl | 2015-12-09 | site is up, says "Service will be back soon..." as of 01:31, 9 December 2015 (EST) |
ly.my | 2015-12-07 | alive as of 01:09, 7 December 2015 (EST) |
m112.hu | ||
me2.hu | ||
macte.ch | 2016-03-14 | seems alive, allows public shortening as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT) |
mcaf.ee | 2016-04-29 | seems alive as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT) |
merky.de | 2016-03-14 | seems alive, allows public shortening as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT) |
mgnet.me | for torrent magnet URIs. | |
miniurl.hu | ||
MinURL.fr | 2015-12-09 | site alive as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST) |
moourl.com | 2016-03-14 | Random (alive as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)) |
my.dot.tk/tweak | Appears non-incremental | |
nblo.gs | 2015-11-07 | no obvious way to create URLs from the home page as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST) |
nbx.ch | 2015-12-09 | private shortener; appears up as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST) |
news.me | 2015-11-07 | 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 | 2015-11-07 | 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 | 2016-03-20 | Appears incremental. 301s to a redirector script, which then 301s you to the destination. Seems alive as of 14:59, 20 March 2016 (EDT) |
-O- | none that start with o, yet | |
p.pw | 2015-11-07 | sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) |
pear.ly | 2015-12-05 | Used by pearltrees.com. Ex: http://pear.ly/6J1H (returns 301 for existing AND non-existing shorturls as of 15:30, 5 December 2015 (EST)) |
pnut.co | see nutshellurl.com Ex: http://pnut.co/3a (returns 200 on a HEAD request; will need to use GET requests) | |
po.st | 2015-11-07 | "social sharing platform"; no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) |
poeurl.com | 2015-12-21 | Path of Exile URL Shortener - Public interface, but with a whitelist of sites. Appears to be incremental, and a small set so far. Alphabet is A-Z a-z 0-9, three characters as of 12-21-2015. Valid URLs: poeurl.com/uFg, HTTP 301 w/ Location: header. Invalid: HTTP 301 to Location: home.php?e=invalidurl |
prettylinkpro.com | 2016-02-10 | "Affiliate Link Cloaker and URL Shortener for WordPress"; doesn't seem to provide public shortening; unclear what the short URLs look like; site appears alive as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST) |
prsm.tc | getprismatic.com ; ex: http://prsm.tc/GB2HP2 -> http://getprismatic.com/story/1428656915049?share=MzY4MjEx.MTQyODY1NjkxNTA0OQ.gH9aD6dy4y7zDFgIYQcLrW9KaeE -> (via some convoluted mess) http://scvincent.com/2015/04/10/when-reviews-really-matter/ ; non-redirects still get redirected to http://getprismatic.com/404 | |
ptiturl.com | 2016-03-20 | appears to be in French; seems alive and allowing public shortening as of 14:59, 20 March 2016 (EDT) |
qik.li | 2015-12-12 | site appears to allow public shortening as of 02:24, 12 December 2015 (EST) |
qr.net | 2016-02-10 | has a redirect from http://3.ly (but other pages on 3.ly seem to redirect to a parking page, http://www.threely.com ) ex: qr.net/bpEjJ & qr.net/bitdo ; allows public shortening; 6,270,241 made as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST) |
qurl.com | 2015-12-10 | site appears to allow public shortening as of 01:03, 10 December 2015 (EST) (also runs a image sharing service) |
r.ebay.com | ||
rlu dot ru | 2016-05-15 | seems alive as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT) - Allows creation of new shortlinks, does not appear to allow custom shortlinks. Currently issues 4 characters, older links use 3 characters, appears to use [a-zA-Z0-9]*, seems to be sequential: http://rlu . ru/TDzw http://rlu . ru/TDzz Valid returns 301 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 404 (GET and HEAD). (as of 17:18, 15 May 2016 (EDT)) |
s7y.us | 2016-03-20 | seems alive and allowing public shortening as of 14:59, 20 March 2016 (EDT) |
safe.mn | 2016-04-03 | Claims to provide archive of shortened URLs at safe.mn/static/safemn.zip ; seems alive as of 01:12, 3 April 2016 (EDT) |
sdai.ly | Allows custom shorturl | |
shadyurl.com | 2016-04-12 | Complex, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 301 (Empty location), ex.: http://www.5z8 dot info/trojan_sunz http://www.5z8 dot info/how-to-stop-immigration-for-good.pdf_w7g7no_yourdick (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) |
shorl dot com | 2016-04-12 | |
shorte.st | sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape | |
shorturl.com | 2016-04-12 | Random, Valid: 302 (Location header correct), Invalid: 200, http://alturl dot com/[a-z0-9]{5}, ex.: http://alturl dot com/j5vmv (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) |
shrinkurl.us | Still resolves, but does not allow creating new URLs ("The URL you entered was not valid or did not exist.") | |
smallr.net | 2016-04-12 | Likely sequential, Allows custom URLs, Must include trailing '/', Valid: 301 (Location correct), Invalid: 404, http://smallr.net/[a-z0-9]{1-4}/, ex.: http://smallr.net/5em/ (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) |
smarturl.eu / joturl.com | Doesn't appear guessable, HTML redirect. | |
smarturl.it | smartURL | |
smurl.name | 2016-04-12 | 60 seconds ads, Random, ex.: http://smurl.name/yMuzr (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) |
soa.li | Gigya inc. | |
soc.li | Gigya inc. | |
soli.dm | 2015-12-16 | Solid Media Group - Domain registered 2014-05-26, Google search shows 566 results as of 12-16-2015. Alphabet: A-Z a-z 0-9 (typically 5 characters long). Valid HTTP Code is 301, invalid is 404. Nonsequential shorturls, no public ability to create shorturls. |
sp2.ro | 2016-04-12 | Likely random, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 302, http://sp2.ro/[a-f0-9]{6}, ex.: http://sp2.ro/d05889 (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) |
spnsr.tw | sponsoredtweets.com | |
surl.co.uk | Many shortening options. | |
t1p.de / ogy.de / 0cn.de / kurzelinks.de | 2016-03-15 | Alive as of 11:17, 15 March 2016 (EDT); http://t1p(dot)de/ggl, non-sequential, custom URLs possible; Valid returns HTTP 302 with Location set; Invalid returns HTTP 301 to error page with requested shortener URL in Location header |
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 | 2015-12-12 | Appears non-incremental (alive as of 18:21, 12 December 2015 (EST)) |
tiny.ly | 2016-01-01 | Appears alive as of 04:09, 1 January 2016 (EST) |
totesz.hu/x | Allows custom shorturl | |
trib.al (alias: gizmo.do ) | Does not appear to allow public creation of new short-URLs; owned by SocialFlow | |
twitthis.com | 2015-11-07 | requires a Twitter account to create shortURLs (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) |
twiturl dot de | 2016-04-12 | Custom urls only?, goes via two redirects, Valid: 302 (Location ends with '&loc=LINK', LINK is the original URL), Invalid: 302 (Location ends with '&loc=http://www dot twiturl.de'), ex.:http://twiturl dot de/gudet (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)) |
trunc.it | 2015-12-12 | closed, but still resolving existing URLs as of 17:43, 12 December 2015 (EST); http://trunc . it/pssga ; returns 301 for existing and non-existing shortcodes |
untiny.me | 2016-04-29 | seems alive as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT) |
url.az | 2016-04-29 | Pays for URLs shortened through it (presumably with ads, thereby likely more difficult to scrape) as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT) |
url.ie | 2016-04-29 | Returns 302 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 404 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace has reached 4 characters. Alive as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT) |
urlcut.com | 2015-12-05 | "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)) ; it returns 302 for both existing *AND* non-existing URLs, preventing its scraping with the default code (as of 00:49, 5 December 2015 (EST)) |
usite.hu/link.php | Numeric incremental, public database | |
u.to | 2015-12-19 | requires GET (not HEAD) requests; returns 302 with target in Location header, 404 for invalid ; Example: http://u . to/HzA-Aw ; as of 23:40, 19 December 2015 (EST) |
viralurl.com (alias vur.me , viralurl.biz , vurl.bz , virl.ws ) | ||
vk.cc | 2015-11-07 | no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) |
vzturl.com | 2016-02-10 | example: http://vzturl.com/apa83 ; appears to allow public shortening, alive as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST) |
wapurl.co.uk | 2016-04-29 | seems alive as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT) |
wowurl.com | 2016-04-29 | Returns 302 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 200 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace has reached 5 characters. They supposedly have 540373 urls. Alive as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT) |
xurl.es | 2016-05-15 | seems alive as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT) - Allows creation of new shortlinks, currently 5 characters (lowercase + digits), appears to be random. http://xurl . es/7dnv0 Allows converting a shortlink into a custom link. Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 302 with Location: http://xurl . es for both GET and HEAD. (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT)) |
xxsURL.de | 2016-04-14 | seems alive as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT) |
y2u.be | meant for YouTube videos, simply redirects anything to the corresponding YouTube ID, i.e. http://www.y2u . be/7458qm becomes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7458qm (as such, not relevant to URLTeam) | |
yatuc.com | 2016-05-15 | seems alive as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT) - "temporarily disabled" but still resolves shortlinks. Shortlinks appear to be 3 characters (lowercase + digits + "_") (may be random judging from gaps) http://yatuc . com/u_k http://yatuc . com/vr0 Doesn't appear to allow custom shortlinks. Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 302 with Location: http://yatuc . com for both GET and HEAD (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT)) |
yep.it | 2015-11-07 | allows custom shortcodes; validates provided URL; example: http://yep . it/bgnhpu ; seems non-incremental, only lowercase letters; appears to make the whole database available via: http://yep . it/stat.php?page=5719 (as of 20:08, 7 November 2015 (EST)) |
zi.ma | 2016-04-14 | DNS didn't resolve at one point, but seems alive (although it's not totally clear it offers url shortening) as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT) Appears to combine multiple URLs into one short URL (see linkbun.ch) |
zurl.ws | 2016-05-15 | seems alive as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT) - Currently cannot create account/shortlinks, resolves existing. Shortlinks appear to be 3 character (lowercase + digits), appears to be sequential (judging from patterns in sequential shorturls). Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 200 with error page. GET and HEAD (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT)) |
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ask.fm | Ex: http://ask.fm/a/40k05kgp -> http://ask.fm/Q7Niki/answer/42128504404 ; seems non-incremental | |
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