Just built a new URL shortening service



is.gd - a URL shortener. Mmmm, tasty URLs!
https://bitly.com
URL Shortener | X.co URL Redirection Service by Go Daddy
notlong Free Short URL Redirection: Make a long URL notlong
Free Short URL Redirection - YEP that URL!
ur1 Generator
Snipurl / Snurl / Snipr / Sn.im / Cl.lk - Snippetty snip snip with your looong URLs! Short URL goodness since 2001
Ow.ly - Shorten urls, share files and track visits - Owly
Metamark - Free Short URL redirection - Make long URLs short
http://simurl.com
Dot TK - Free Domains for All
Tiny URL | a Simple URL Shortener
doiop.com
TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a tiny URL
Shrink your URL with to.ly
alturl.com - get yourname.alturl.com - part of the ShortURL.com network.
URL.ie - free URL truncation / shortening service
moourl.com
Tiny.pl - Skracanie linkw. Zamie za dugi adres na krtki i atwy!
http://hurlme.com
v.gd - The ethical URL shortener

There are a few others. :)
 
ShadowCaster said:
Idk, getting some weird errors, can you check it out? testing
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LMAO!

Thanks for this @ShadowCaster:

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Cool. I built one of these way back when tinyurl was the major one. Ran the site, and sold the code to others. Didn't make a lot but it was my first ever 'product' I think.

Edit: and it was the first site I ever sold links on.
Damn I miss that site lol.
 
I think most devs have wrote a url shortener at some point. Although the geotargetting feature looks legit.
 
Looking nice ... a short video on typical options will be great for novice users (this service may be helpful - http://www.wickedfire.com/links-seo/174526-explain-your-business-60-secs.html)

What extra you offer then bit.ly ? (One extra was Geo targeting I noticed)

They are established one and if you want to get pass to them then you need to capitalise those things in which they are lack of.

Would love to see your reply on extra offer from you.

Best of luck for your new ventures ... checked your blog as well, nice one.
 
it was about time someone took the initiative to create a new URL shortening service. Well done.
 
Owned a couple of url shorteners like 5-6 years ago, got buttloads of traffic and then buttloads of complaining emails as the urls were used for spamming web/email/fucking everything. Even complaints to the host. Made a bit of money off the ad revenue, but spent a lot of time trying to police the urls and the complaints. Ended up deleting the site.

Just installed this on a site for internal use only, it allows you to turn off user registrations etc. Very simple to install, good admin panel as well. PHP Scripts - Shortix
 
What's your plan for it ?

How you are going to promote it ?

Is it simply for fun or any serious business thought ?

As mikeshinobi mentioned several other such kind of service available and many of them just created and forgotten ?

Two experienced friends raised vital point as well ... any planning for it ...

Douglife said:
Did I miss something? Is there any reason not to use Bitly?

I had the exact same wordpress theme on dlife.co, doing the same thing. About a month after I began promoting it, it was bombed using shorteners for comment spam to adult stuff. Be careful.
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edward_b said:
Owned a couple of url shorteners like 5-6 years ago, got buttloads of traffic and then buttloads of complaining emails as the urls were used for spamming web/email/fucking everything. Even complaints to the host. Made a bit of money off the ad revenue, but spent a lot of time trying to police the urls and the complaints. Ended up deleting the site.
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The site looks beautiful, good job on the design. its great.

BUT get ready to be raped by spammers once its found.

- Build in some filters so spammers cant register 100s or 1000s of URLs en masse.
- Have some kind of system setup so when their URL is naughty and you nuke it you can redirect it to your owner lander and make some ad impression $$ off the still incoming traffic

and shit son. close/protect some of those ports on that box!

Nmap scan report for iiin.co (216.70.87.137)
Host is up (0.036s latency).
rDNS record for 216.70.87.137: dv.penguiiin.com
Not shown: 983 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp filtered smtp
53/tcp open domain
80/tcp open http
106/tcp open pop3pw
110/tcp open pop3
135/tcp filtered msrpc
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
143/tcp open imap
443/tcp open https
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
465/tcp open smtps
993/tcp open imaps
995/tcp open pop3s
3306/tcp open mysql
8443/tcp open https-alt
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I like your design, looks really nice.

My brain is conditioned to go to bitly everytime I need to shorten, just because I've been doing it for so long.

Like many others, I made a url shortening service just for my own social media posting automation and even then I forgot to use it or used bitly or Googles url shortner.

Yea definitely watch that your domain doesn't get put on a "list" on BHW and those other forums, next thing you know your domain will be part of ever blackhats scrapebox url shortening add on and you'll get nothing but spam/complaints.

oh yea and close those freaking netbios ports lol why are you using a windows server?
 
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