You have probably noticed a rapid influx of URL shortening services over the last year – from bit.ly to tinyURL and literally 50+ more. Well now you can create your own. Shorty is a simple tool which ...

Ever wonder how The New York Times shortens its links on Twitter to “nyti.ms,” followed by some combo of letters and numbers? If not, maybe you should. In 2010 social media traffic to news sites ...

Google might soon truncate the full address of websites you visit. By only showing the domain name of a website in the address bar rather than the full URL, Google’s move could actually help people ...

I have it on good authority that Google acquired the domain name, which was originally registered back in May 2003, from a Belgian Internet entrepreneur, but didn’t make its identity known throughout ...

Short URLs are handy for cleaning up long links, but they also hide the true destination. If you want to avoid malware or a phishing scam, blindly clicking that link isn't your best bet—there are ...

When the revolution in Libya began, many Americans, savvy to the ways of international diplomacy, raised an important point: what would happen to bit.ly? The .ly in bit.ly, after all, is the top-level ...

URL shortening services are a dime a dozen, and despite wishes for them to vanish (with good reason) they’re here to stay and more popular than ever given the abundance of social services that thrive ...

You may be familiar with some of the shortest internet domains used by major companies, such as m.me and fb.me from Facebook (Meta) and Twitter's t.co URL shortener. But, it's possible for live domain ...

Buff Link is a URL shortening service similar to TinyURL. You can use this tool to shorten URLs while retaining the colorado.edu domain. Short URLs can also be used to set up vanity URLs for marketing ...

Google has acquired G.co to use as the exclusive domain for shortened URLs of its sites, following in the footsteps of other major Internet companies that have bought .co domains recently and ...