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Although Tiny.url was the first URL shortening service back in 2002, several other competitors - all using ad revenue to pay for the facility - have entered the URL shortening marketplace. Bit.ly said ...

There was a time when TinyURL was all you needed to get control of a monster-sized URL that you wanted to share with friends. Now, Google and Facebook are getting into the link shortening business, ...

If you daily send a lot of links to your friends / Twitter followers it’s very likely that you’ve started using a URL shortener. It’s fast, easy and so web 2.0 to send a shortened URL, you can’t deny ...

Sharing long links over Facebook, X/Twitter, and other social sites can be a pain if the sites develop a technical slag. The best practice, therefore, is to shorten the URL that never expires. That ...

QR codes went from zero to hero during the pandemic. But are people still using QR codes as much now that the pandemic is under control? Apparently so. During the first half of 2022, Bit.ly saw a 152% ...

As you might remember from our coverage only a few days ago, NIC.ly (the Libyan domain registry) blocked the vb.ly domain for being a “sex friendly URL shortener”. That rose fear in many that one of ...

The federal government has launched a publicly accessible URL shortener in collaboration with popular short URL site bit.ly. Called 1.usa.gov, the URL shortener automatically creates a short address ...