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Urlteam
url shortening was a fucking awful idea^[1]
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

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

fetcher.pl: Perl-based scraper by User:Chronomex
TinyBack: Python 2.x-based, distributed scraper (formerly used)
Terror of Tiny Town: currently used by ArchiveTeam

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.

Researching URL Shorteners

Here's what to do when you've come across a new URL shortener that should be archived. At minimum, please follow the first step. Anything beyond that is more helpful. Even if you don't know of any shorteners not on the list, additions, updates or verification of the information in existing shortener entries is very welcome!

Add it to the Alive section of this page in alphabetical order and include the current date. Please include whatever information you have, but at the absolute minimum, we need the domain.
- To add a new shortener to the Alive section, you can follow this template:

|-  
| shortener url || date (YYYY-MM-DD)  
| information you have gathered on the shortener

Check the homepage. Is there a public method to create a shorturl? If so, create one and include it in the entry. If not, note that in the entry.
If you were able to create a shorturl, try making a second. Is it sequential? For example, if the first link was foo.bar/dbE4g and the second link is foo.bar/dbE4h (or very close to it), it's probably sequential. If you get foo.bar/dbE4g followed by foo.bar/g4rTh, it's probably random. Note in the entry whether the shorturls are random or sequential.
Run curl -I http://url.short/validshortcode and see which HTTP status code is returned. Also note whether it returns the destination in the Location: header. Note both in the entry.
Run curl -I http://url.short/invalidshortcode and see which HTTP status code is returned. Note that in the entry.
If the above fails, make a note of it in the entry and try using curl -i instead of curl -I
Check the homepage, and see if they give a total number of shorturls that their service provides. If so, note that in the entry.
There are browser plugins/extensions available to make the requests described above from your browser for those without access to curl/command line. (Examples: Advanced REST Client, REST Console)

Common numbers

Suitable for use as sequence numbers.

26 letters + 10 digits	36
26 lower case letters + 26 upper case letters + 10 digits	62
36 possibilities ** 3 characters	46656
62 possibilities ** 3 characters	238328
62 ** 4 characters	14776336
62 ** 5	916132832
62 ** 6	56,800,235,584 (too big to cover completely)

URL shorteners

Non-warrior projects

Name	Est. number of shorturls	Scraping done by	Status	Comments	# in dump	Example URL
http://goo.gl	?	User:Scumola	started (2011-03-04)	goo.gl throttles pulls ; (this apparently didn't make it in the last old-style dump)	0	n/a
ff.im	?	User:Chronomex	Dead	only used by FriendFeed, no interface to shorten new URLs; redirects to Facebook as of 18:51, 19 June 2016 (EDT)	1,189,782	http://ff . im/2p
4url.cc	1279 (2009-08-14)^[2]	User:Chronomex	Dead	dead (2011-02-15); redirect to ad-laden site as of 18:51, 19 June 2016 (EDT)	1,279	http://4url . cc/Q
http://litturl.com	17096 (2010-04-15)^[3]	User:Chronomex	dead	dead (2010-11-18); no DNS as of 18:51, 19 June 2016 (EDT)	17,096	http://litturl.com/ZTT
http://xs.md	3084 (2009-08-15)^[4]	User:Chronomex	done	dead (2010-11-18); homepage claims to be "a private folder" as of 18:51, 19 June 2016 (EDT)	3,084	http://xs.md/AAZ
http://url.0daymeme.com	14867 (2009-08-14)^[5]	User:Chronomex	done	dead (2010-11-18)	14,867
http://tr.im (old)	1990425	?	got what we could	dead (2011-12-31)	1,990,425
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 (divided up in 11 files in the last old-style dump);	153,281,595	http://post.ly/3000a
http://zapd.co Zapd	326592	User:Chfoo	Done. 144093 1.7M	xxxx.zapd.co. Uploaded to IA	0
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.	0
http://arseh.at	?	?	?	also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.	23,655
http://bit.ly	?	?	?	divided up into 3,835 files in the last old-style dump, totaling 39 GB (compressed!); also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.	1,507,816,439
http://is.gd	?	?	?	divided up into 125 files (totally 8.5 GB) in the last old-style dump; also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.	302,434,257
http://kl.am	?	?	?	Dead (as of 03:00, 3 December 2015 (EST))	1,870,335
http://links.sharedby.co	?	?	?	in a file called links.sharedby.co-links.txt.xz in the last old-style dump	9,298,101
http://ow.ly	?	?	?	divided up into 23 files (totaling 4.5 GB) in the last old-style dump; also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.	328,901,265
http://surl.ws	?	?	?	Yes, there really are only 48 listed.	48
http://tny.im	?	?	?		1,614
http://snipurl.com	?	?	?	divided up into 8 files in the last old-style dump (for a total of 6.8 GB compressed, though); also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.	368,750,225
http://tinyurl.com	?	?	?	divided up into 60 files (totaling 9.4 GB) in the last old-style dump; also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.	470,413,092
http://tr.im (new)	?	?	?	in the last old-style dump as a file called tr.im-relaunched.txt.xz	1,266,068
http://ur1.ca	?	?	?	(Note this is named "ur" followed by the digit one, not L.) This got from 0 to dzzzz There is also a Warrior project, ur1-ca, below, that continued the grab up to j5tc9.	8,432,282
http://vbly.us	?	?	?	also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.	114,924
http://xym.kr	?	?	?		144
twitter-unrolled-urls-spritzer-stream	?	?	?	in a 4.6GB file named: twitter-unrolled-urls-spritzer-stream-20111015-20130318.txt.xz ; there's a note about it in the README file	257,993,902
Name	Number of shorturls	Scraping done by	Status	Comments	# in dump	Example URL

# in dump refers to the number of short URLs included in the last old-style dump, URLTeamTorrentRelease2013July.

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

Warrior projects

Pink background refers to currently running projects; gray background to ones that aren't currently making new short URLs.

Use {{subst:urlteam blank warrior entry|}} to add new entries. The parameters are project-name, example URL, and comment, in that order.

Warrior project name	Est. # shorturls	Last scraped date	Initially scraped date	# checked	Example URL	Incr	Comments
0rz-tw +/-	?	2016-06-19	2015-12-20	904,730,750	http://0rz.tw/6eX6j	?	Has a list of existing URLs on front page; all 5 characters long; scrape (2015-12 -- 2016-06) checked all 5 character possibilities, found 23,009,383 shortcodes.
1r-hu +/-	?	2014-12-02	2014-12-02	1,346,050	?	?	Done
2-gp +/-	?	2015-12-20	2015-12-14	17,780,989	http://2.gp/GDYZ (created 21:34, 21 November 2015 (EST))	Y	4-character alphanumeric (excluding "similar looking letters"); seems to check that URL resolves; returns 302 for existing AND non-existing shortcodes (just returns "Location: /" for non-existing ones); checked all 4 character ones, and some 5 characters in 2015-12-14 through 2015-12-20 scrape
2jump-info +/-	?	2014-12-02	2014-12-02	298,949	?	?	Banned
2-ly +/-	?	2015-12-20	2015-12-14	21,739,150	http://2.ly/xr	Y	looks very similar to 2.gp (but not an alias); returns 302 for existing AND non-existing shortcodes (just returns "Location: /" for non-existing ones); checked all 4 character ones, and some 5 characters in 2015-12-14 through 2015-12-20 scrape
7-ly +/-	?	2016-03-13	2016-02-27	19,822,700	http://7 dot ly/G9	?	seems alive as of 02:12, 26 December 2015 (EST); stopped after accidentally storing a bunch of redirects to the home page
adjix +/-	?	2015-1-24	2014-12-13	8,615,100	http://adjix.com/45fj	?	Alive; uses custom code. Rechecked 20 july 2016.
a-gg +/-	?	2016-02-27	2016-02-27	17,150	http://a.gg/es	Y	292 found on 2016-02-27; nice picture of a robot; seems alive as of 02:12, 26 December 2015 (EST)
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
arseh-at +/-	?	2015-01-15	2015-01-11	1,842,350	?	Y	Appears down; new shorturls: sequential
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
bit-do +/-	?	2023-05-31	2016-06-20	0	http://bit . do/ag4	?	seemed alive as of 2016-06-05; error message says it support digits, letters, dash and underscore; testing seems to show case folding, but they claim (in the FAQ) to be case-sensitive, so we have to test for that.
bitly_6 +/-	50,000,000,000	2023-05-31	2014-11-22	4,822,102,800	https://bit.ly/1Zmfo8z	N	done: non-sequential 6 characters; current: non-sequential, 6 characters; 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	2016-06-09	2014-11-06	11,650	http://burl.se/428	Y	200 re-checked on 2015-11-08 ; 63 more found on 2016-06-09
ccl-hu +/-	?	2015-12-15	2015-12-15	97,261	http://ccl.hu/h0pyr	?	seems to always return 301, even for non-existing links; random sample didn't find any real ones (checked as of 02:03, 7 December 2015 (EST)); nothing found in 100,000 checks -- I think it's dead. Alive Rechecked 20 july 2016.
chilp-it +/-	?	2015-12-15	2015-12-15	20,000	http://chilp.it/1d9c9d1	N	seems to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST) ; returns 301 for existing AND non-existing shortcodes (just returns "Location: http://chilp.it/404.php" for non-existing ones); non-incremental; appears to just use lowercase letters and digits; attempted scraping FAILED -- need to look into why
cutt.us +/-	?	2016-02-27	2016-01-10	78,596,278	http://cutt.us/url-shortener http://cutt.us/bitdo	?	Requires GET and content regex. Seems blocked as of 2016-02-27, will try again in a while.
da-gd +/-	165,000	2016-06-16	2015-12-14	902,018,849	http://da.gd/dZdp8	N	source code: https://github.com/relrod/dagd - Of note, this shortener will pass along anything after the slash: da.gd/g -> google.com; da.gd/g/mail -> google.com/mail ; paused between 2016-02-22 and 2016-03-06 as it seemed to be reacting badly; finished scanning all the 5 character ones -- found 94,400 entries on 2016-06-16. We need to find out if it supports 6 character ones.
df4-us +/-	25,133	2015-12-18	2015-12-18	47,850	http://df4.us/mn4	?	daringfireball.net private shortener : Alive 12-17-2015, no public method to create new URLs. Alphabet appears to be a-z 0-9, most results are 3 characters or less (df4.us/mn4, df4.us/8, df4.us/ib) Valid URLs 301, location is included in header. Invalid URLs 302 to http://daringfireball.net ; on 2015-12-18 -- did a scan of everything up through 3 characters; last found one was seq # 31903 (om7) ; run a rescan next year
db-tt +/-	?	2015-12-12	2015-12-05	43,421,600	https://db.tt/FnHZSr77 https://db.tt/b5gwXppx	N	Official shortner for Dropbox ; most 8 characters; seen a few that are 7 characters) Only found 21 redirects in over 40 million searches; the space has over 200 trillion possibilities.
dld-bz +/-		2015-12-15	2015-12-05	48,897,650	http://dld.bz/dGjTy	?	"private URL shortening service"; found 8,639,481 in first scrape; we've pretty much covered everything through 4 characters, plus part of 5
dwurl-hu +/-		2015-11-16	2015-11-16	3,473,050	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
flip-it +/-	?	2023-05-31	2016-06-6	7,323,750	flip.it/3gM3q flip.it/0KQWN	?	Flipboard -- Heavily used, 5 characters, [a-zA-Z0-9_], looks random from recent google site:flip.it results. GET and HEAD, valid: 302 with destination in Location:, invalid: 404
fos-hu /queue +/-	?	2016-06-06	2016-06-06	672,650	http://fos.hu/b54 http://fos.hu/b55	?	incremental alphanumeric, but shares pattern with an image sharing service -- Allows creation of new shortlinks, 3 characters, [a-z0-9], sequential. Attached image sharing service: http://fos.hu/b56 (points to http://fos.hu/?funkcio=kepnezegeto&h=46cda5622ef666c7af4ec58b56bd0c0c) GET and HEAD, valid returns 302 with destination in Location:, invalid returns 302 to Location: http://fos.hu/?nincsmeg ; Found 15,958 in 2016-06 scrape.
fwdurl-net +/-	?	2016-03-06	2015-11-16	35,151,181	http://fwdurl.net/uDRZ4TGAj6V (created Nov 16, 2015) http://fwdurl.net/aYwa (created Dec 17, 2013) http://fwdurl.net/bjkDtwYAoWSF (created Dec 4, 2015) http://fwdurl.net/JEcCYlS1Qywv (created Dec 28, 2015)	?	responds very slowly; stats (including creation date, & hit count) available by suffixing "!"
hec-su +/-	518175	2015-12-25	2015-12-21	0	https://hec.su/cm5B	Y	hec-su was doing some type of slow ban; will need to figure out a way around it
hoblu-es +/-	?	2023-05-31	2016-06-21	0	http://hoblu.es/acb	?	private, for the House of Blues concert venue chain; 1-3(maybe 4) character; uppercase, lowercase and digits; legacy 6 Char links (looks like imported bitly links); some Custom strings; existing: 301, Location; not existing: 302, 404 private: /admin, /admin/
isgd_6 +/-	934,134,706 (as of 2013-05-20)	2016-05-27	2014-11-22	2,585,756,925	http://is.gd/mBNPCM	?	done: sequential up to ZZZZZ ; new shorturls: non-sequential, 6 characters; uses custom code; paused for now (on 2016-05-27) since it switched to HTTPS only, and some of the warriors haven't been updated to support that. TODO: Fix this.
jdem-cz +/-	1,424,052	2015-12-15	2015-12-15	1,000	http://jdem.cz/bw388	Y(?)	random (?) last digit; attempted scraping FAILED -- need to look into why
kcy-me +/-	?	2015-11-22	2014-11-06	5,239,050	http://kcy.me/28trr	?	Shortening service for http://karmacracy.com ; requires free account to create short URLs ; ran initially for one day, re-checked a year later
korta-nu +/-	?	2015-11-22	2015-04-11	12,767,850	http://korta.nu/9ob	?	Initial run ended on 2015-05-27; doing a 2nd pass through the 3-character values starting 2015-11-22
lnk-sk +/-	24,000	2015-12-28	2015-12-18	6,564,050	http://lnk.sk/6aw	Y	site is alive as of 01:31, 9 December 2015 (EST); returns 302 for both existing and non-existing URLs; 82,310 found in scrape up to rxJQ. Dead 403 on both main webpage and test url Rechecked 20 july 2016.
lurl-no +/-	2,518	2015-12-18	2015-12-18	3,700	http://lurl.no/aZ	Y	site is up, says "Note: as a result of huge amounts of spam, new lurls are currently disabled." as of 01:31, 9 December 2015 (EST); grabbed all of them on 2015-12-18.
migre-me +/-	423,747,675	2016-05-04	2015-11-08	441,363,315	http://migre.me/sd9AB	Y	up to 5 characters, mixed case alphanumeric, currently around sot00 (as of 03:01, 14 December 2015 (EST)); Interestingly, the 3,822,506 codes from 4JXAG to 50000 are all empty. 4JXAG was created at "07/06/2011 17:06:46" while 50000 was created at "07/06/2011 03:00:00". 50je0 was created at 07/06/2011 17:05:05^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}. So it looks like it was handing out both ranges for a few hours, then cut over to just 5's, leaving three million empty. Fascinating. Also, the 10,090,448 codes from 6jF0S (created at 05/12/2011 às 03:43:37) to 70001 (created at 23/11/2011 às 02:22:08) appear to be empty. As of 2016-05-04, we got ALL of it, although since it is still active, we'll need to do a re-check periodically.
mrte.ch +/-	?	2016-04-29	2016-03-14	113,153,450	http://mrte dot ch/3tc	?	No new URLs allowed (due to spam), but existing ones still work; HEAD request gives 301 for short URLs; 307 for not found; as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT) ; everything 404s as of 2016-04-29 02:15:15 -- we found 54,880,485 short links.
mysp-ac +/-	?	2015-04-04	2015-02-09	16,245,049	?	?	uses custom code
nig-gr +/-	?	2015-12-06	2014-11-06	15,145,600	?	?	Home page is a blank black screen. (as of 01:38, 9 November 2015 (EST)); re-scan of 2-character range (nothing new found); and 4 character range on 2015-12-06 (started on the 4th, ran till the 7th)
nsfw-in +/-	?	2016-04-24	2016-04-13	2,469,650	nsfw . in/TRo	?	Almost incremental, Valid: 200 (No Location header), Invalid: 404, http://nsfw dot in/[a-zA-Z]{1-3} (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)); 102,199 found in 2016-04 scrape. May be sold, Alive Rechecked 20 july 2016.
oak-ctx-ly +/-	?	2016-04-24	2016-03-31	30,217,950	http://oak.ctx.ly/r/rew	?	Returns 301 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 404 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace seems to have reached about 5 characters. Alive as of 07:01, 30 March 2016 (EDT); 7,408,862 found in 2016-03 scrape
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 +/-	?	2015-12-01	2015-04-11	255,950	http://piciurl.hu/7wr	Y	Initial scrape done on 2015-04-11; new scrape done on 2015-12-01 (up to seq# 11043)
p-ly +/-	62,000	2016-06-05	2015-12-09	1,205,082,200	http://p.ly/abcd	?	(aka re.p.ly) ; it has a shut down message (added sometime between May 1, 2012 and June 14, 2012) but promises to keep existing URLs working as of 01:03, 10 December 2015 (EST) (had 61,306 short URLs as of May 1, 2012); this WB entry shows some short URLs (5 characters, alphanumeric); paused for a while during 2016-02 for unclear reasons
pub-vitrue-com +/-	?	2014-11-22	2014-11-16	15,067,550	?	?	Now part of Oracle; uses custom code
qr-cx +/-	2,377,573	2015-12-08	2015-12-08	5,200	http://qr.cx/Us5p	?	not allowing new shorturls as of 02:09, 9 December 2015 (EST); They made a full dump available after we emailed them! Here: http://qr.cx/dataset/qrcx_all_06eec9b9-1f29-4860-bd91-49c2d517d87d.7z^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]} (IA item coming soon)
rod-gs +/-	?	2015-12-05	2015-12-05	6,250	http://rod.gs/1Fl	Y	up to 3 characters, alphanumeric, creating new ones appears to hang (as of 02:14, 2 November 2015 (EST)) (returns 301 for existing; 404 for non-existing); searched up to 1aqa on 2015-12-05. Alive Rechecked 20 july 2016.
sharedby-co_6 +/-	?	2023-05-31	2015-01-29	71,924,350	http://sharedby.co/pHdLKr	?	(Also see http://vsb.li. Double redirects via USERNAME.sharedby.co/share/XXXXXX ) (and http://shrd.by ); uses custom code. Alive Rechecked 20 july 2016.
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. Alive Rechecked 20 july 2016.
shortn-me +/-	?	2016-04-16	2016-04-14	1,008,050	http://shortn . me/k3pL	?	Likely sequential (Create fails), Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 301 (Location: index.php), http://shortn dot me/[a-zA-Z0-9]{1-4}, (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT)); appeared to be down on April 16 -- should probably re-start it sometime.
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.
s-id +/-	?	2016-03-16	2016-02-27	19,268,596	http://s.id/Wb	Y	Run by PANDI, the registrar for the .id TLD; 20,901 found in 2016-02 scrape
srtn-us +/-	?	2015-12-01	2014-11-06	55,800	http://srtn.us/10zd	Y	still resolves URLs, but site just shows blank page; first scrape on 2014-11-06; re-checked from seq# 47929 through 48441 on 2015-12-01
snipurl +/-	?	2015-03-06	2015-01-24	181,015,750	?	Y	new shorturls: sequential ; snipr.com / snipurl.com / snurl.com / sn.im - 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. Dead 404 Rechecked 20 july 2016.
snipurl_range2 +/-	?	2015-04-20	2015-03-06	293,372,600	?	?	see snipurl entry; uses custom code
spne-ws +/-	?	2015-12-20	2015-12-20	134,600	http://spne.ws/9iN	?	Silicon Prairie News private shortener ; Valid HTTP code is 301. Invalid is 301 as well, but to "http://www.siliconprairienews.com/?awesm=spne.ws_1&utm_medium=spne.ws-root&utm_source=direct-spne.ws&utm_content=root" - Alphabet is A-Z a-z 0-9, most appear to be 3 or less characters. No apparent method to publicly create new URLs. ; 6,898 found in first scrape; re-check in a year or so. Alive Rechecked 20 july 2016.
sx3-se +/-	?	2016-01-1	2016-01-1	7,000	http://sx3.se/7	?	private shortener for swedishstartupspace.se; 948 found
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
tiny-tw +/-	813,979	2016-05-05	2016-05-07	1,778,200	tiny.tw/3OZk	Y	Returns 301 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 301 with empty Location header for invalid URLs. Sequential alphanumeric with uppercase. Namespace has reached 4 characters. Alive as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
tinyurl_7 +/-	10,000,000,000	2023-05-31	2014-11-22	3,065,726,275	http://tinyurl.com/mxzufis	N	done: sequential to zzzzzz; current: non-sequential, 7 characters; uses custom code
tiny-pl +/-	?	2016-04-24	2016-04-13	20,229,750	tiny . pl/g78rl	?	Sequential, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 301 (Location: http://tiny dot pl/404.php), http://tiny dot pl/[a-z0-9]{1-5}; 730,015 found in 2016-04 scrape
tinyurl-hu_4 +/-	?	2015-11-01	2015-08-13	20,308,700	http://tinyurl.hu/4q22	?	uses custom code
trap-it +/-	?	2015-02-20	2015-01-01	3,130,300	?	?	first scrape (only covering 5-character codes) from 2015-01-01 through 2015-02-20; next scrape (starting at 0c4uk) began on 2015-12-04 -- unable to load anything (although manual checks of previously found ones seemed to work)
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. Examples redirect to homepage, may be alive Rechecked 20 july 2016.
ur1-ca +/-	?	2016-06-16	2014-12-17	25,560,250	http://ur1 . ca/5bi	Y	new shorturls: sequential ; FOSS, run by StatusNet; claims to offer a download of their database, but it just contains garbage; 2014-12-17 through 2014-12-20 scrape found 8,343,158 shortcodes from dzzzz to j5tc9; 2016-06-09 through 2016-06-16 scrape started with 1 character ones (until I noticed we had already done that, then it switched to continuing where the other one left off) and found about 11 million more shortcodes. Stopped it when it started throwing errors, which was about a two days after it stopped returning any results; last result was pbnnp (seq #49369792). Dead Rechecked 20 july 2016.
u-to +/-	?	2015-11-19	2015-05-02	54,190,499	http://u . to/5pkIDw	?	Doesn't allow new shortened URLs, as of 01:57, 19 November 2015 (EST); checked all the 4 character possibilities; found 13,315,311 URLs. Alive Rechecked 20 july 2016.
u4-hu +/-	?	2014-11-16	2014-11-16	178,250	http://u4.hu/x/5Oz	?	Appears down. Alive Rechecked 20 july 2016.
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)
vgd_6 +/-	20,606,232	2023-05-31	2015-02-14	2,285,901,100	v . gd /FFF54S ; v . gd /urlteam ; https://v . gd/ulrA0Q	?	uses custom code ; it would be named v-gd, but it was one of the earliest projects, and the naming convention hadn't settled down yet ; obscure sibling of is.gd; Not sequential, is random. Has random customization options (standard, lower case, and lower case pronounceable) Allows custom URLs and different protocols (http, ftp, see IANA list of URIs for more). "data:", however is banned. Returns 301 with URL in location header for valid URLs. Returns 404 for invalid URLs. Says on homepage (as of 22:28, 5 May 2016 (EDT)) "Shortening 20,606,232 URLs". Alive Rechecked 20 july 2016.
viddy-it +/-	?	2014-12-18	2014-11-16	832,351,700	?	?	dead; viddy; partially saved
waa-ai +/-	?	2016-03-20	2014-11-16	2,182,850	?	?	Requires free login to create shorturls ; initial run for one day on 2014-11-16; another one-day run on 2016-03-20
wowurl-com +/-	540,373	2016-06-09	2016-05-05	18,555,750		Y	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); As of 00:04, 10 June 2016 (EDT), it seemed to ignore the first character of the 5 digit shortcodes (i.e. returned the same URL for any first character). As such, stopped at b1qo8 (seemed to be mostly spam, in any case), after finding 1,712,131.
xco +/-	?	2014-11-22	2014-11-06	80,319,800	http://x dot co/1IxUV http://x dot co/1IxUW http://x dot co/5PSLK	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
xxsurl-de +/-	?	2016-05-16	2016-05-14	3,097,300	http://xxsURL . de/11wyx	?	seems alive as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT) -- Allows creation of new shortlinks, currently 5 characters (lowercase + digits, have not seen any upper case letters) appears to be sequential and lowercase. (http://xxsURL . de/11wyx http://xxsurl . de/11wyy) Allows for custom shortlinks. Valid returns 302, invalid returns 200 with error page, for both GET and HEAD requests, destination in Location header. Appears to provide an incomplete(?) list of shortlinks and a top 20. ; 1,303,470 found in 2016-05 scrape. Dead Rechecked 20 july 2016.
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 +/- AND yatuc-com +/-	~ 33,000	2016-05-16 (for one day)	2014-12-13 (for one day)	597,150 (in yatuc job); 7,945,300 (in yatuc-com job)	http://yatuc . com/u_k ; http://yatuc . com/vr0	?	"temporarily disabled" but still resolves shortlinks. Shortlinks appear to be 3 characters (lowercase + digits + "_") (may be random judging from gaps) 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)); uses custom code (for yatuc, not yatuc-com job). Dead requires password to add new short urls Rechecked 20 july 2016.
yoolink-to +/-	?	2016-06-09	2014-11-16	344,100	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 between 2015-11-08 and 2015-11-09; 4 characters (from 1dw6 to 1e45) scraped on 2016-06-09
zurl-ws +/-	2,647	2016-05-16	2016-05-17	2,139,600	http://zurl.ws/39x	Y	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)). Alive requirs account to use Rechecked 20 july 2016.
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^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]} (last updated 2009-08-14), http://code.google.com/p/shortenurl/wiki/URLShorteningServices^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]} (Updated May 19, 2011; not fully integrated yet), https://www.hashtags.org/platforms/twitter/list-of-url-shorteners/^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}, http://bit.do/list-of-url-shorteners.php^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]} (as of 01:49, 10 February 2016 (EST)), http://blogtimenow.com/free-lists/free-url-shortener-services-shrink-links/^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]} (as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT))

Shortener	Last Checked on	Notes
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
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
at5.us	2016-05-15
at.cmt.com		Country Music Television - Appears to be a vanity domain hosted on ow.ly infrastructure.
b23 dot ru	2016-01-02
bc.vc	2016-06-05	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
cmplx.it	2016-06-19	4 to 5 Character, some legacy 6 Character(bitly) asdASD123 some 1 char, 2 char example: cmplx.it/Sh5j existing: 301, location: not existing: 404 seems pretty slow, 25k google hits
cur.lv (CoinURL.com)	2016-05-18	Subdomains include: bit, go, in, jump, link, me, my, n, name, now, to. -- Allows creation of new shortlinks, displays interstitial ads. Appears sequential, 5 characters, [a-z0-9]. Javascript updates HTML body: `ifr.src = "http://cur . lv/redirect_curlv.php?code=" + escape(c) + "&ticket=" + ticket + "&r=" + (document.referrer ? escape(document.referrer) : );` (note spaces in ifr.src for spam filter), destination link in `<a ..id="skip-ad" >` cur . lv/ypc7w and cur . lv/ypc7x
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	2016-05-18	sprinklr -- Used on twitter by @DellOutlet and @DellCaresKR (and elsewhere?) to link to various marketing campaigns. Appears to use a 4 numerical digits "601" + [0-9] + 5 characters [a-zA-Z0-9], not clear if sequential or otherwise (recent links seem to be of the form 601#Bxxxx) http://del.ly/6012BoNrp del.ly/6010BUbi6 (301 Redirect, destination in Location:, invalid returns 301 to http://del.ly/error?url=[invalid code])
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/durl.kr	2016-06-19	appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST) ex: http://durl . me/7ainhy http://durl . me/cfvj3d http://durl . me/cf9ssv Non Sequential, random 6 Char, Charset asd123, 165k hits(google) pretty slow, displays warning on new(low frequent?) sites. last twitterpost is from 2009 Redirect: 302 Location, 200 div content a href url no redirect: 404 very weird, has 2 ways of redirecting. Links for 200-Pages have to be extracted from html
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)
fanpa.ge	2016-06-19	3-5 Character asdASD123 Google sees 40k links, basically all 5 Character. some 3 Character links like asd, private? allows Custom urls redirect: 301, location no redirect: 404
fav.me	2016-05-18	Used by DeviantArt. Ex: http://fav . me/d31sfml -- Appears to be in heavy use on twitter (probably elsewhere), 7 characters, [a-z0-9], could be sequential judging from the pattern on twitter posts. fav.me/da33t4q fav.me/da33pmb Seems to restrict by user-agent: using `user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36` (GET and HEAD) provides a 301 redirect, destination in Location:, without 403 Forbidden. Invalid: 404
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)
fnd.us		(See offical shorteners)
gkurl.us	2015-11-21	appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST)
gdurl.com	2016-05-28	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) -- for GET and HEAD, valid returns 307 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 404
hive.co/l	2016-05-30	this is an component of the hive.co website: artists can create shortned urls of their tracks. Seems to also resolve to some other links too. Characters (i hadn't seen any other characters in the links as of now): "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789" Url format: hive.co/l/a hive.co/l/aa hive.co/l/aaa hive.co/l/aaaa and so on. Custom named ones found. (positions 1 and 2 are already archived) Status codes: 404 Not found, 302 redirect. example curl -i output http://paste.harrycross.me/view/6fcacf91#b5hwPAqom5CAJqVEELvF9Y89VvHnsnMm.
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	2016-05-28	Claims to be the "Social Advertising Network", appears to offer keyword highlighting, iframe and link-redirect advertising. Requires an account to create links, needs more investigation.
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
macte.ch	2016-03-14	seems alive, allows public shortening as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)
mcaf.ee	2016-04-29
merky.de	2016-03-14	seems alive, allows public shortening as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)
mgnet.me	2016-05-28	for torrent magnet URIs. -- Allows creation of new links, allows custom links. Sequentially generated: http://mgnet.me/bOwH7Kc http://mgnet.me/bOwH7K6 http://mgnet.me/bOwH7qZ (Also found examples: Oct 2014 ZxVD8CX; May 6 2016 bwxF6mZ) Unsure of ordering pattern. GET and HEAD request 200 status code (GET returns page with magnet link) with magnet link in header Magnet-Uri, Invalid code returns 302 with mgnet.me in Location header (both GET and HEAD).
MinURL.fr	2015-12-09
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))
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	2016-06-10	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 no longer resolves, prsm.tc resolves but returns 503 with "Back-end server is at capacity" reason as of 03:31, 10 June 2016 (EDT)
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	2016-06-10	Working and producing new shortlinks. Currently 6 characters, [a-zA-z1-9], looks random. Responds to both GET and HEAD requests. Valid returns 301 to rover.ebay(.com,co.uk,de,etc), then another 301 to ebay. (com,co.uk,etc)/itm/.. (How long are expired item listings kept? These likely expire at the same time.) Invalid returns 301 to http://pages.ebay.com, then another 301 to http://www.ebay.com - ex: r.ebay.com/gjbfkl r.ebay.com/rOhipo r.ebay.com/IH3etu r.ebay.com/eF1ofu
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)
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	~~Doesn't appear guessable~~, 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		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))
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	2016-06-10	smartURL -- smarturl.it, hyperurl.co - Allows creation, returns 'hyperurl.co' shortlinks, 6 character, [a-z0-9], appears case insensitive, allows custom code on hyperurl.co to all, custom on smarturl.it to "verified accounts". Can redirect to different links based on country and device (additional marketing options for "enterprise" accounts). Duplicate links get a new code. Responds to both GET and HEAD. Valid returns 301 with destination in Location header. Invalid returns 404. hyperurl.co/cxmdix hyperurl.co/le1lsr hyperurl.co/2br774 hyperurl.co/9cud4f
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
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
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)
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
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)
yep.it	2016-06-14	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)); claims 36,383 URLs as of 00:58, 15 June 2016 (EDT)
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)
Shortener	Last Checked on	Notes

"Official" shorteners

ask.fm - Ex: http://ask.fm/a/40k05kgp -> http://ask.fm/Q7Niki/answer/42128504404 ; seems non-incremental
bln.gs - Blingee (format: bln.gs/b/28fss0 and bln.gs/b/1)
bsa.ly - private shortener for BuySellAds.com as of 15:05, 2 January 2016 (EST)
CokeURL.com - Coca-Cola (examples: CokeURL.com/3yuz9 ; CokeURL.com/vs5s ; Cokeurl.com/theaterseat )
di.sn - Disney - Appears to have a few different schemes: di.sn/rht, di.sn/6015ByMqD, di.sn/6006IwjY, di.sn/a05C. Valid response = 301 to URL with "Location: " header. Invalid response: 301 to /error?url=theinvalidurlgoeshere in "Location: " header. No apparent public method to create URLs.
disq.us - Disqus
eepurl.com - MailChimp (allowed public shortening for a while, only allows use by MailChimp customers as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST))
fb.me - Facebook
flic.kr - Flickr
fnd.us - Fundrazr.com
fxn.ws - Fox News (Examples: fxn.ws/18KBPhy, fxn.ws/1MqIqKs, fxn.ws/1jAAK0M) - Valid response: 301 with URL in Location: header. Invalid response: 302 with www.foxnews.com in Location: header. Space appears to be too large to search.
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 - Public form at git.io, only accepts github.com URLs. URLs appear to be sequential for some operations. Valid URLs: git.io/xYTU, git.io/vtrEf, git.io/bQ6v7Q - Valid = 302, invalid = 404.
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 http://igg.me/at/defendbitcoinmagazine ; http://igg.me/at/1NaE6yoZIaY most seem to use chosen names
lnkd.in - LinkedIn
mfi.re - MediaFire
mir.cr - Mirror Creator mirrorcreator.com
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
qr.ae - Quora
redd.it - Reddit
reut.rs - Reuters
rsg.ms - Rockstar Games
skfb.ly - Sketchfab
spoti.fi - Spotify
stanford.io - Stanford University
su.pr - StumbleUpon
t.co - Twitter
ti.me - Time Magazine
tl dot gd - Maybe Sequential, site specific, maps to www.twitlonger.com, ex.: http://tl dot gd/79aumf -> http://www.twitlonger.com/show/79aumf, ex.: http://tl dot gd/n_1sn6j78 -> http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sn6j78 (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
tmblr.co - Tumblr (redirects to www.tumblr.com which does the actual redirection); Z4fZpx1gfu_mU ;

ZIKCSm1uGRMbv ; ZAvEqsfi4_rO ; Zqar4t1x8GPpN ; ZJ8Wby1L9QRac The shortcodes are TOO LONG for terroroftinytown to handle...

tmi.me - Likely sequential, Not URL but message shortener, first example also serves as info, ex.: http://tmi.me/43vkS http://tmi.me/1fdmrO (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
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) (as of 20:53, 5 December 2015 (EST), has no database, just expands wh.gov into www.whitehouse.gov)
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
aje.me - Aljazeera
amzn.to - Amazon
arfo.sk
atfp.co - Foreign Policy
bbc.in - BBC
bbybgrl.com
binged.it - Bing (bonus points for being longer than bing.com)
bzfd.it - Buzzfeed
canva.link
carrot.cr - Carrot Creative
cb.com - Career Builder
chzb.gr - Cheezeburger
cnet.co - CNET
cnnmon.ie - CNN Money
conta.cc - Constant Contact Inc.
corb.is - Corbis Images
cot.ag
curbed.cc - Curbed.com
dag.gy
econ.st - The Economist
emarketee.rs - Emarketeers
engri.sh - Engrish.com
eonli.ne - E! Online
es.pn - ESPN
feedly.com/k/ - redirect, see below for their own
fltsim.me
grd.to - The Grid TO
hub.am - HubSpot
huff.to - Huffington Post
ift.tt - IFTTT
j.mp - bit.ly^[6]
jrnl.to - thejournal.ie
kck.st - Kickstarter
kore.us
lemde.fr -- alive as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST)
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
nokia.ly - Nokia
nyti.ms - New York Times
onforb.es - Forbes
onion.com - The Onion
proof.ly
read.bi - Business Insider
rnk.me - as of 02:24, 12 December 2015 (EST)
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
squid.us - Laughing Squid
stay.am
stjo.es - St. Joseph Media
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)
yfrog.com - ImageShack, although it may be down as of 00:58, 15 June 2016 (EDT)
zite.to - Zite

Dead or Broken

(please keep list alphabetized)

1click.im - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
1dl.us - For sale as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
1link.in - Website dead
1url.com - Server not responding as of 01:10, 10 February 2016 (EST)
2big.at - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
301.to - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
307.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
4ks.net - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
4zip.in - For sale as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
6url.com - HTML redirect, Error 500 ; Windows IIS blank page as of 02:13, 26 December 2015 (EST)
7rz.de -- "Under Construction" page as of 02:13, 26 December 2015 (EST)
7vd.cn -- Server not responding as of 04:04, 1 January 2016 (EST) ; was Baidu Short URL service. Example: http://7vd.cn/rjtS

aa.cx - Redirects to a non-English VPS site as of 00:58, 15 June 2016 (EDT)
abcurl.net - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
abra.me - server down as of 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST)
ad4.us - For sale as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
adcraft.co - parking page as of 19:43, 9 January 2016 (EST)
adcrun.ch - parking page as of 18:06, 12 December 2015 (EST)
adspl.us - parking page as of 21:05, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
ad.vu - mirror of adjix.com, application not found; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
adfro.gs - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
adnld.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
adshor.tk - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
adzip.us - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
afx.cc - Just the letters "afx" in a giant, bright green font as of 02:13, 26 December 2015 (EST)
a.gd - redirects to eg.gg which is a (somewhat entertaining) parking page as of 02:13, 26 December 2015 (EST)
aka.gr -- "This account has been suspended" as of 03:57, 1 January 2016 (EST) It was a Greek url shortener, written by Konstantinos Botonakis, with sponsored ads. Ex: http://aka.gr/bit
a.nf - seems to allow public shortening; has list of recent short URLs, and totals (9279 total); appears alive as 02:12, 26 December 2015 (EST) ; server not responding as of 23:38, 26 February 2016 (EST)
ar.gy - GitHub holding page as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)
arm.in - domain for sale as of 21:44, 21 November 2015 (EST)
articleshrine.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
arst.ch - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
aurls.info - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)

bacn.me
be.vc
biglnk.com - dead, replaced with unrelated blog
biturl.net - for sale as of 01:01, 6 June 2016 (EDT)
bizz.cc - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
bloat.me - parking page as of 15:05, 2 January 2016 (EST)
Buk.me - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)
buraga.org - seems to be a social network, not a url shortener as of 01:01, 6 June 2016 (EDT)
bwtm.co - DNS fails to resolve.

calyp.co - Server error. 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.
canurl.com - Website dead
catchylink.com - Advertising a mutual fund as of 01:31, 13 December 2015 (EST)
catchyurl.co
cf.ly (CashFly.com) -- redirects to happydaydeals4you.com as of 02:04, 7 December 2015 (EST)
chod.sk - Appears non-incremental, not resolving
cliccami.info - Apache default page as of 15:33, 2 January 2016 (EST)
cli.gs - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST); Appears non-incremental
clk.my - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)
cl.lk - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
clop.in -- domain parked as of 21:52, 21 November 2015 (EST)
Crum.pl - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)
come.to - (wayback of homepage) Related to various .to shorteners. Started in 1997, killed in 2013 after parent company died.
coge.la -- just a logo as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST)

da.co - Parked as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)
dft.ba - Server gone as of 01:11, 17 November 2015 (EST) ; site had shutdown message (claiming links would continue to work), from July 2015 through Sept 2015. "Don't forget to be awesome - custom shortened name", by DFTBA Records. Examples: http://dft.ba/-aWOr ; http://dft.ba/-bitdo ; http://dft.ba/-urlshortener
digg.com - discontinued - [1]
dollarfalls.info - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
do.my - Blank page as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)
dopen.us - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
dwarfurl.com - Numeric, appears incremental: http://dwarfurl.com/08041 ; domain for sale as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)

easy.tc - DNS not resolving.
easyuri.com - Appears hex incremental with last digit random/checksum: http://easyuri.com/1339f , http://easyuri.com/133a3 ; blank page as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)
eqent.me - Improper redirect to bitly.

fa.by - Shut down on Apr 8, 2012 (according to Wayback). Last checked 01:22, 17 February 2016 (EST)
feedzil.la - Domain parked; server doesn't respond as of 01:22, 17 February 2016 (EST)
fff.to - Parking page as of 01:22, 17 February 2016 (EST)
fire.to - Server doesn't respond as of 01:22, 17 February 2016 (EST)
flpbd.it - Flipboard -- Appears down as of 02:45, 19 May 2016 (EDT)
fly2.ws - Empty page as of 01:22, 17 February 2016 (EST)
fon.gs - server down as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST); DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
freak.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
fuzzy.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
fwd4.me - redirects to a site about traffic cameras as of 22:00, 21 November 2015 (EST)
fwib.net - parking page as of 01:22, 17 February 2016 (EST)

gl.am - Empty as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)
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
g.ro.lt - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
gurl.es - Server not responding as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)
gx.si
gyar.eu - Server gone as of 01:07, 17 November 2015 (EST) (examples: http://gyar.eu/c8 ; http:// gyar.eu/agB)

hao.jp - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
hashonomy.com - Timed out
hex.io - Gandi parking page as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)
hj.to -- server requests HTTP Basic auth as of 22:05, 21 November 2015 (EST)
hmm.ph -- Domain for sale as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)
hop.im -- a personal homepage as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)
href.hu
href.in - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
htcdev.net - DNS not resolving.
hurl.no - Shut down sometime between March 5, 2011 and May 29, 2011 due to an influx of spam. As of 02:24, 3 December 2015 (EST), the domain appears to be owned by someone else.

iawtp.me - DNS not resolving
icanhaz.com - Contains a "closed as of June 2010" message as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)
icymi.me - DNS not resolving
iKr.me - Asian-script spam site as of 02:24, 3 December 2015 (EST)
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
irt.me - DNS not resolving as of 02:24, 3 December 2015 (EST)
its.my - Just a advert as of 04:07, 1 January 2016 (EST)
ix.it - Not resolving

jijr.com - Doesn't appear to be a shortener, now parked as of 04:07, 1 January 2016 (EST)
joomlagyar.hu/usb - DNS not resolving
jump.to - dead as of February 1, 2013

kaaf.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
keTKP.in - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)
Kots.Nu - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)
kisa.ch - Domain for sale as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT)
kissa.be - "Kissa.be url shortener service is shutdown"
kl.am - "kl.am Closes its Shell" (server not available as of 15:48, 13 March 2016 (EDT))
kly.so - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
krunchd.com - redirects to a real estate site as of 00:58, 15 June 2016 (EDT)
krz.ch - redirects to idealizer.ch (SEO company) as of 02:24, 3 December 2015 (EST)
kuijt.nu - replaced with unrelated site
kurl.us - Parked.
k.vu - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)

l.gg - server not responding as of 01:31, 13 December 2015 (EST)
liltext.com - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
linkee.com - shut down with a notice on July 23, 2014
liurl.cn - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
lk.to
ln-s.net - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
ln-s dot ru - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
LNK.by - Cyrillic domain parking page as of 01:09, 7 December 2015 (EST)
lnk.gd - "This account has been suspended. Either the domain has been overused, or the reseller ran out of resources." as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)
lnk.ly - DNS not resolving as of 01:09, 7 December 2015 (EST)
lnk.ms - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
lnk.nu - parking page as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)
lnkurl.com - Website empty as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)
l.pr - LinksPreadeR (review from TechCrunch^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}) - DNS not resolving as of 01:09, 7 December 2015 (EST)
lru.jp - Just shows a login form as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)
lst.bz - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
lurl.no - Server doesn't respond as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)

m112.hu - Link creation (and website) appears to be broken as of 22:28, 28 May 2016 (EDT)
mangk.us - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
marv.ly - DNS fails to resolve.
mash.to - Cannot connect ; Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
memurl.com - Pronounceable. Broken.
me.lt - Connection refused.
me2.hu - DNS error as of 22:28, 28 May 2016 (EDT)
mens.hm - Not responding (timeout)
micURL.com - parking page as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)
miklos.dk - Doesn't appear guessable: http://miklos.dk/!z7bA6a - "Vi arbejder på sagen..."
min2.me - now a CDN called bit2me (?) as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)
miniurl.hu - Times out as of 22:28, 28 May 2016 (EDT)
mindless.co
minilien.com - Doesn't appear guessable: http://minilien.com/?9nyvwnA0gh - Website dead
minilink.org - parking page as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)
minim.in - Times out
miniurl.com - Just an ad page as of 00:53, 14 March 2016 (EDT)
minurl.org - Presently in ERROR 404
mke.me - Service Temporarily Unavailable as of 00:58, 15 June 2016 (EDT)
ms.me - Parked.
msplinks.com - Used by Myspace[2]
mtw.tl - everything 403s
muhlink.com - Not resolving
myloc.me - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
MySp.in - parking page as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)
mytinyurl.com - redirects to an unrelated image
myurl.us - cpanel frontend
MyURL.in - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
myv.bz - Not resolving

ndurl.com - redirects to site offering "Minecraft for Free" as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)
nm.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
nn.nf - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
not.my - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
nyturl.com - NY Times (bonus points for being longer than nyt.com, which they own). Taken by squatters
nxy.in - Just displays "HNY 2016!" as of 15:00, 20 March 2016 (EDT)

oc1.us - parking page as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)
omf.gd - DNS not responding as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST) ; Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
om.ly - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
onvzi.com - DNS fails to resolve.
orz.se - domain registrar as of 01:11, 3 April 2016 (EDT)
otf.me - Empty WordPress site
o-x.fr - Non-loading adverts as of 01:11, 3 April 2016 (EDT)

para.pt - parking page as of 01:31, 13 December 2015 (EST)
Pendek.in - parking page as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)
Pic.gd - appears to be an image sharing site as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)
Piko.me - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
PiURL.com - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
ping.fm - Fails to resolve.
pli.gs - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
pln.so - Not working.
Plo.cc - parking page as of 01:53, 9 December 2015 (EST)
plzretwt.me - Fails to resolve.
pnut.co - see nutshellurl.com ~~Ex: http://pnut.co/3a (returns 200 on a HEAD request; will need to use GET requests)~~ -- Connection times out (nutshellurl.com still working, see Alive) as of 03:45, 10 June 2016 (EDT)
pp.gg - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
pt2.me - default server page as of 02:09, 9 December 2015 (EST)
pulsene.ws - Expired. Parked by GoDaddy.
Puke.It - parking page as of 02:09, 9 December 2015 (EST)

qlnk.net - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
qu.tc - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
qurlyq.com - Javascript redirect. Appears sequential: http://qurlyq.com/5nf. Domain parked.
qux.in - Parking page as of 01:04, 10 December 2015 (EST)

rb6.me - redirects to "coming soon" page as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)
RDE.me - GoDaddy parking page as of 01:04, 10 December 2015 (EST)
re.ad - Fails to resolve.
readthis.ca - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
reallytinyurl.com - A non-English blog of some kind as of 15:00, 20 March 2016 (EDT)
redir.ec - 403 Forbidden as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)
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)
reducelnk.com - redirects to a web directory as of 03:08, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
retwt.me - Server fails to respond as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
r.im - page is blank (but contains title) as of 01:04, 10 December 2015 (EST)
riz.gd - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
RT.nu - parking page as of 01:11, 3 April 2016 (EDT)
RubyURL.com - DNS not responding as of 02:24, 12 December 2015 (EST) ; Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
rurl.org - Service Temporarily Unavailable as of 00:58, 15 June 2016 (EDT)
rww.tw - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)

Sai.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
sameurl.com - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
say.ly - redirects to unrelated site
scriptzon.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
scrnch.me - DNS not responding as of 01:15, 29 January 2016 (EST)
sdai.ly - Allows custom shorturl -- DNS does not resolve as of 03:45, 10 June 2016 (EDT)
sdut.us - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
see.sc - Fails to resolve.
Short.ie - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
shortlinks.co.uk - Working again. Maybe not. ; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
short.nr - DNS not responding as of 01:31, 13 December 2015 (EST)
short.to - Domain is parked - Probably sequential/loweralpha: http://short.to/msmp ; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
Short.Url - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 7 December 2015 (EST)
shortxlink.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
shout.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
show.my - Likely dead (Folder listing) (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
shrinkify.com - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
shrinklink.co.uk - Doesn't appear sequential: http://www.shrinklink.co.uk/45bmx , www.shrinklink.co.uk/npk6xp . Domain parked.
shrinkurl.us -- ~~Still resolves, but does not allow creating new URLs ("The URL you entered was not valid or did not exist.")~~ - Connection refused as of 03:45, 10 June 2016 (EDT)
shrten.com - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
Shrtn.com - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
shrtn.us - myshorturls.appspot.com. 404, does not resolve
shrt.st - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
Shw.me - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
simurl.com - Doesn't appear guessable - Ex: http://simurl.com/panpes. Website is blank; does not resolve URLs ("This SimURL is now inactive") ; parking page as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)
siteo.us - returns "521 Origin Down" as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)
slki dot ru - Not a shortener, not sure if it integrates one. (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
sl.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
smallr.com - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
s.me - Domain parked.
smf.is - DNS not resolving.
smfu.in - Currently not working, site exists. (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
smsh.me - Dead: Cannot connect to database. (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
snipie.com - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
snipurl.com - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
snpurl.biz - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
srnk.net - redirects to tiny-url.info as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT)
sns.mx - SNS Analytics, domain parked
snurl.com - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
socialcampaign.com - Times out as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
song.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
spedr.com - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
sq.com - Now redirects to Singapore Airlines.
srs.li - Not a shortener (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
surl.hu – Last contact on 2014-07-16, nearly 2M sURLs gone. Domain taken but idle now ; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
SwU.me - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
s3nt.com - Probably sequential. http://s3nt.com/aa goes somewhere different from /ab . Domain parked.
s4c.in - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)

tgr.me - Dead (403) (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
theminiurl.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT)
TimesURL.at - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
tini.us - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
tiniuri.com - Account suspended as of 00:58, 15 June 2016 (EDT)
TinyPl.us - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
tinyuri.ca - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
tllg.net - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
tm.to - Twtmore has "flown away"
tnij.org - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
to.gg - Global Giving, everything 503s
to.je - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
to.vg - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
tpm.ly - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
traceurl.com - DNS fails to resolve.
trumpink.lt - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
tsort.us - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
tweetburner.com / twurl.nl - Appears incremental, everything 404s
tweet.me - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
tweez.me - redirects to vurl.com (which 404s) as of 04:04, 1 January 2016 (EST) ; was described as a "Free Premium URL Shortening Service"
Twip.us - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
twitpwr.com - Domain parked.
twitterurl.net - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
twitterurl.org - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
twitt.hu
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.
twtr.us - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
twurl.cc - Dead (21:46, 12 April 2016 (EDT))
twurl.nl - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
tw6.us - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)

u.bb - No DNS as of 01:15, 29 January 2016 (EST)
u76.org - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
ub0.cc - redirects to software site http://www.shareitforpca.com/ as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
uiop.me - just lists an email address as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
ulu.lu - Gandi domain parking page as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
u.mavrev.com - Stopped accepting new urls. Now times out. Shows a shared webhosting notice as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
unfaker.it - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
u.nu - "The shortest URLs. period." Website dead since at least 1st of october 2010 (http://web.archive.org/web/20100104023208/http://u.nu/) ; Now it is "an East-West informed pan-cultural wellness community based in NYC" as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
updating.me - not a URL shortening service as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
urizy.com - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
url360.me - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
url4.eu - Site for sale as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
url9.com - Sequential, alphanumeric. Leading 0s are significant. "The site is working correctly."
URL.AG - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
urlborg.com - 404 Not Found.
URLCorta.es - For sale as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
url.co.uk - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
urlcover.com - Domain parked.
urlG.info - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
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.
urlu.ms - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
urlvi.be - Domain parked.
urlx.ie - Redirects to software site as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
urlx.org - Owner has agreed to share his database
ur.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
URLZ.at - Redirects to a clothing store as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
urlzen.com - For sale as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
use.my - DNS not responding as of 02:37, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
uxp.in - ~~still resolves URLs, but site just shows blank page~~. Domain parked.

vb.ly - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST) (but see above)
vibemag.co - Vibe Magazine. Times out
vi.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 7 December 2015 (EST)
virl.co - "Have fun with interesting lists" as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
vl.am - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
vm.lc - Just the words "Short is cool..." as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
vsb.li / links.visibli.com/links/ - The latter uses truncated md5 hex string. See sharedby.co.
VTC.es - For sale as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
vurl.com - 404 as of 04:04, 1 January 2016 (EST)

w3t.org - 403 Forbidden; construction page as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
w55.de - Just the domain name on the page as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
wa.la - For sale as of 02:44, 29 April 2016 (EDT)
wipi.es - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)
wlink.us - Domain parked.
wl.tl - DNS not resolving.
wwy.me - Server not responding as of 04:04, 1 January 2016 (EST)

xaddr.com - Domain parked.
xil.in - Under construction.
XiY.net - Attempts to resolve existing shortlinks return "Account Suspended". Does not appear to allow creation of new shortlinks. Seems to have issued 4 characters using [a-zA-Z0-9?] - http://xiy . net/9Hw3 http://xiy . net/?vfk (as of 17:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT))
xr.com - Doesn't resolve as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT)
xrl.in - Domain for sale as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT)
xrt.me - Spam blog as of 02:37, 14 May 2016 (EDT)
x.se - Cannot resolve, but www.x.se works.
xym.kr - Gibberish (?) Korean text blog.

y.ahoo.it - Yahoo
ye.pe - Running an empty instance of OwnCloud as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT)
yiyd.com - Directory listing for a spam site as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT)
yweb.com - Suspicious iframe with long url and fake loading gif image.

zip.li - parking page as of 17:51, 12 December 2015 (EST)
zip.sm - was a redirect to joturl.com. Now times out
ZipMyURL.com - Server not responding as of 16:36, 12 December 2015 (EST)
zud.me - Allows creation of new shortlinks, but throws 404 when resolving. May be fixed at some point. Currently issuing 3 character shortlink (lowercase a-z so far), appears sequential. http://zud . me/xxd http://zud . me/xxe No custom shortlinks. Returns 404 error when resolving a shortlink (as of 01:39, 15 May 2016 (EDT))
zz.gd - Was shut down due to spam sometime around 2010. Existing URLs do not seem to resolve as of 02:50, 14 May 2016 (EDT)

External list

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LD-D8mBBYdqS37oJ86VSb-fQwgM1R5tYGA3hjn6vQiE/edit#gid=0 This list is freely commentable (if you need write access PM luckcolor on archiveteam ircs) and it's managed by luckcolors. It lists dead shortners with archived data wich we can use to make a browsable archive. Last updated 20 june 2016.

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.^[7]
feedly.com/e/ - realized that URL shorteners were bad ^[8]. Non-cooperative.
icanhaz.com -- shut down sometime around June 2010; IA dump that should be un-darked.
lks.uk.to -- no DNS as of 03:01, 15 December 2015 (EST) ; has a dump on IA in 301Works; need to ping them about un-darking it.
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.
pnt.me - Doesn't appear guessable, too big a space to bruteforce: http://pnt.me/FzAblc (DNS not responding as of 16:15, 12 December 2015 (EST)) IA dump that should be un-darked.
s.tt - shortener of http://repost.us^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}. There is a dump on IA: https://archive.org/details/stt-7-18-14 -- but it is still restricted, contrary to 301works rules ("a closing company will agree to allow 301Works to publish the mappings", as stated here). Someone should ping IA about this.
urlbrief.com - supposedly co-operated with 301Works.org -- but the collection is empty, and DNS doesn't respond as of 02:44, 15 December 2015 (EST). Someone should ping IA and ask them to un-dark the collection, if there is anything, per the 301works rules.
va.mu - server is down as of 23:04, 15 December 2015 (EST); 16 items on IA that should be un-darked.
Zapt.In - 404's as of 23:10, 15 December 2015 (EST) ; https://archive.org/details/ZaptinShortedUrlsIn20113110 should be un-darked; appears to be under controll of IA as of 30.5.16, 18:31 CEST

External lists to integrate

(not yet checked or de-duplicated, please move them (and comment with at least the date) when you do check them)

shortenurl/wiki/URLShorteningServices and longurl.org/services

From: http://code.google.com/p/shortenurl/wiki/URLShorteningServices^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]} From http://longurl.org/services^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}

(filtered out ones with no DNS, or a server that didn't respond with status code 200)

hiderefer.com / nullrefer.com -- blocked by browser as a "web forgery", seems up but unclear what it exactly does as of 01:11, 3 April 2016 (EDT)
omoikane.net - redirect to megatokyo as of 01:11, 3 April 2016 (EDT)
Z.PE - loads zaloapp.com, a messaging app from vietnam. 18:31, 30 May 2016 (CEST)

(here's a list of ones from the above sources whose servers returned non-200; the status code is prefixed)

301  b2l.me - redirects to shareaholic.com as of ~~~~~
301  bizj.us - redirects to bizjournals.com (may still be an official shortener) as of ~~~~~
301  clck dot ru - seems alive; site is in Russian, as of ~~~~~
301  cl.ly - redirects to getcloudapp.com as of ~~~~~
301  cort.as
301  dai.ly
301  dlvr.it
301  fbshare.me
301  ff.im
301  firsturl.net
301  flq.us
301  fuseurl.com
301  fwd4.me
301  go.ign.com
301  goshrink.com
301  hulu.com
301  hurl.me
301  hurl.ws
301  ir.pe
301  J2j.de
301  klck.me
301  lnkd.in
301  minurl.fr
301  moby.to
301  nbc.co
301  ow.ly
301  post.ly
301  profile.to
301  pub.vitrue.com
301  redirx.com
301  ri.ms
301  SFU.ca
301  shrinkr.com
301  starturl.com
301  ta.gd
301  tnw.to
301  togoto.us
301  to.ly
301  toysr.us
301  tra.kz
301  tra.kz
301  twhub.com
301  urlBorg.com
301  urlcut.com
301  vgn.am
301  Voizle.com
301  x.vu
301  yuarel.com
301  zi.mu
302  2su.de
302  eweri.com
302  fav.me
302  fb.me
302  flic.kr
302  go.9nl.com
302  Good.ly
302  go.usa.gov
302  hsblinks.com
302  ix.lt
302  liip.to
302  linkbee.com
302  lt.tl
302  ooqx.com
302  qy.fi
302  r.im
302  shrt.fr
302  shrt.ws
302  surl.co.uk
302  tinylink.in
302  t.lh.com
302  twitclicks.com
302  URLoo.com
302  wp.me
302  xrl.us
302  xurl.jp
302  z0p.de
302  Zi.pe
403  clop.in
403  htxt.it
403  ilix.in
403  ping.fm
403  rickroll.it
403  shink.de
403  shrunkin.com
403  twirl.at
403  urlcover.com
403  urli.nl
403  URLi.nl
403  urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com
403  zzang.kr
404  ctvr.us
404  ru.ly
404  shar.es
404  totc.us
404  urlenco.de
405  4ms.me
405  4sq.com
405  azc.cc
405  bcool.bz
405  bravo.ly
405  chzb.gr
405  conta.cc
405  cot.ag
405  crks.me
405  digg.com
405  huff.to
405  lat.ms
405  nblo.gs
405  n.pr
405  nyti.ms
405  onforb.es
405  on.mktw.net
405  politi.co
405  qte.me
405  read.bi
405  slate.me
405  tbd.ly
405  tcrn.ch
405  tgr.ph
405  tny.com
405  urls.im
405  usat.ly
405  wapo.st
405  yhoo.it
503  t.cn - redirect to weibo.com as of ~~~~~

Mashable

From http://mashable.com/2008/01/08/url-shortening-services^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}

Not copied in yet

vanityurlshorteners.com

Not copied in yet

dig.do

From http://dig.do/about/url-shortener^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}

Sorted by HTTP status returned as of 15:48, 15 May 2016 (EDT) Ones that returned 200 listed first.

clicky.me
dai3.net
domainonair.com
dstats.net
fur.ly
hotshorturl.com
ik.my
infovak.com
ity.im
itz.bz
j.gs
l1nks.org
miniurl.com
multiurl.com
nowlinks.net
nsyed.com
omani.ac
ooze.us
ozn.st
s2r.co
seomafia.net
shr.tn
sitereview.me
sk.gy
soo.gd
tip.pe

000	HTTP://1y.lt/
000	HTTP://adlock.in/
000	HTTP://hide4.me/
000	HTTP://iiiii.in/
000	HTTP://shrinkonce.com/
301	HTTP://4u2bn.com/
301	HTTP://adbooth.com/
301	HTTP://adbooth.net/
301	HTTP://b2s.me/
301	HTTP://cc.cr/
301	HTTP://cf6.co/
301	HTTP://ilikear.ch/
301	HTTP://magiclinker.com/
301	HTTP://multiurlscript.com/
301	HTTP://nicbit.com/
301	HTTP://shrt.in/
301	HTTP://ty.by/
302	HTTP://jetzt-hier-klicken.de/
302	HTTP://mrte.ch/
302	HTTP://tab.bz/
403	HTTP://adfa.st/
403	HTTP://adurl.biz/
403	HTTP://bih.cc/
403	HTTP://gooplu.com/
403	HTTP://short2.in/
403	HTTP://swyze.com/
403	HTTP://tinylord.com/
403	HTTP://tinyurl.ms/
500	HTTP://onelink.ir/

hongkiat.com

From http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/url-shortening-services-the-ultimate-list/^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}

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English Wikipedia (deleted)

From https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=List+of+URL+shorteners&timestamp=20130302152210^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}

7.ly

abbrr.com

beam.to
big.at
bitly.com
BurnURL.com

clck dot ru
cliccami.info
clickthru.ca
cli.gs
cl.lk
cl.ly
clop.in
conta.cc
cot.ag
crks.me
ctvr.us
cutt.us
dai.ly
decenturl.com
dfl8.me
dfl.me
digbig.com
DigBig.com
digg.com
Digg.com
disq.us
dld.bz
dlvr.it
doiop.com
do.my
dopen.us
dy.fi
EasyURI.com
EasyURL.net
EsyURL.com
eweri.com
fa.by
fav.me
fb.me
fbshare.me
fff.to
ff.im
fire.to
firsturl.de
firsturl.net
flic.kr
flq.us
fly2.ws
Fly.ws
fon.gs
freak.to
fuseurl.com
fuzzy.to
fwd4.me
fwib.net
ge.tt
gizmo.do
gl.am
gocut.com
go.ign.com
go.me
goshrink.com
go.usa.gov
g.ro.lt
gurl.es
hex.io
hmm.ph
hsblinks.com
htxt.it
huff.to
hulu.com
Hurl.it
hurl.me
icanhaz.com
idek.net
ilix.in
is.gd Yes
its.my
ix.lt
jijr.com
j.mp
Just.as
kissa.be
kl.am
klck.me
korta.nu
krunchd.com
l9k.net
lat.ms
liip.to
liltext.com
lin.cr
linkbee.com
linkbun.ch
link.in
liurl.cn
lnkd.in
lnk.gd
lnk.in
lnk.ms
lnkurl.com
ln-s dot ru
ln-s.net
lns.net
lru.jp
lt.tl
lurl.no
macte.ch
make.my
mash.to
merky.de
minilien.com
miniurl.com
minurl.fr
mke.me
moby.to
moourl.com
mrte.ch
myloc.me
myurl.in
MyURL.in
nblo.gs
nn.nf
notlong.com
not.my
n.pr
nsfw.in
nutshellurl.com
nxy.in
nyti.ms
oc1.us
omf.gd
ominusadvertisers.info
om.ly
omoikane.net
on.cnn.com
onforb.es
on.mktw.net
orz.se
o-x.fr
ping.fm
PiURL.com
pli.gs
politi.co
poprl.com
post.ly
pp.gg
profile.to
Profile.to
ptiturl.com
QLNK.net
qu.tc
qy.fi
rb6.me
read.bi
readthis.ca
reallytinyurl.com
redir.ec
redirects.ca
redirx.com
RedirX.com
r.im
ri.ms
riz.gd
rt.nu
rubyurl.com
ru.ly
rurl.org
rww.tw
s4c.in
s7y.us
safe.mn
sameurl.com
sdut.us
shar.es
sharetabs.com
shink.de
shorl.com
short.ie
shortlinks.co.uk
shout.to
show.my
shrinkify.com
Shrinkify.com
shrinkr.com
shrinkster.com
shrten.com
shrt.fr
shrt.st
shrunkin.com
shurl.net
shw.me
simurl.com
SimURL.com
slate.me
smallr.com
smsh.me
smurl.name
sn.im
snipr.com
snurl.com
sp2.ro
spedr.com
srs.li
starturl.com
StartURL.com
sturly.com
surl.co.uk
surl.hu
sy.us
ta.gd
tbd.ly
t.cn
t.co
tcrn.ch
tgr.me
tgr.ph
tighturl.com
TightURL.com
tiniuri.com
tinyarro.ws
tiny.cc
tiny.com
tinylink.in
tiny.ly
tiny.pl
tinyuri.ca
tinyurl.com
tinyvid.io
tl.gd
t.lh.com
tmi.me
tnij.org
Tnij.org
tnw.to
tny.com
togoto.us
totc.us
toysr.us
tpm.ly
TraceURL.com
tra.kz
tr.im
trunc.it
TubeURL.com
turo.us
tweetburner.com
twhub.com
twirl.at
twitclicks.com
twitterurl.net
twitterurl.org
twiturl.de
twurl.cc
twurl.nl
u76.org
ub0.cc
ue.de
ulu.lu
u.mavrev.com
u.nu
updating.me
url360.me
url4.eu
url.az
urlborg.com
urlbrief.com
url.com
url.co.uk
urlcover.com
urlcut.com
URLHawk.com
url.ie
URL.ie
urli.nl
urlot.com
urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com
urls.im
urlx.ie
urlx.org
urlzen.com
usat.ly
use.my
vgn.am
vl.am
vm.lc
w55.de
WapURL.co.uk
wipi.es
wp.me
wt.org
xaddr.com
XeeURL.com
xr.com
xrl.in
xrl.us
x.se
xurl.es
xurl.jp
x.vu
ya.com
ye.pe
yhoo.it
yi.tl
yiyd.com
yuarel.com
yweb.com
z0p.de
zi.ma
zi.mu
zipmyurl.com
zud.me
zzang.kr
zz.gd

tiny-url.info

Seems to provide a centralized place to create shortcodes on multiple services. Provides sample shortlinks for each service, whether provider gives direct forwards, previews, ads or frames. Unfortunately it does not seem to have been updated for several years and the "state" column shows green for services that are down.

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References

Weblinks

Common URL shortening software

Ha-ha! Please don't run a URL shortening service.

YOURLS (aka http://yourls.org )

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Archiving projects	APKMirror · Archive.is · BetaArchive · Government Backup (#datarefuge · ftp-gov) · Gmane · Internet Archive · It Died · Megalodon.jp · OldApps.com · OldVersion.com · OSBetaArchive · TEXTFILES.COM · The Dead, the Dying & The Damned · The Mail Archive · UK Web Archive · WebCite · Vaporwave.me
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Cloud hosting/file sharing	aDrive · AnyHub · Box · Dropbox · Docstoc · Fast.io · Google Drive · Google Groups Files · iCloud · Fileplanet · LayerVault · MediaCrush · MediaFire · Mega · MegaUpload · MobileMe · OneDrive · Pomf.se · RapidShare · Ubuntu One · Yahoo! Briefcase
Corporations	Apple · IBM · Google · Loblaw · Lycos Europe · Microsoft · Yahoo!
Events	Arab Spring · Great Ape-Snake War · Spanish Revolution
Font Repos	DaFont · Google Web Fonts · GNU FreeFont · Fontspace
Forums/Message boards	4chan · Captain Luffy Forums · College Confidential · Discourse · DSLReports · ESPN Forums · Facepunch Forums · forums.starwars.com · HeavenGames · JamiiForums · Invisionfree · NeoGAF · Textream · The Classic Horror Film Board · Yahoo! Messages · Yahoo! Neighbors · Yuku.com · Zetaboards
Gaming	Atomicgamer · Bazaar.tf · City of Heroes · Club Nintendo · Clutch · Counter-Strike: Global Offensive · CS:GO Lounge · Desura · Dota 2 · Dota 2 Lounge · Emulation Zone · ESEA · GameBanana · GameMaker Sandbox · GameTrailers · Halo · Heroes of Newerth · HLTV.org · HQ Trivia · Infinite Crisis · joinDOTA · League of Legends · Liquipedia · Minecraft.net · Player.me · Playfire · Raptr · SingStar · Steam · SteamDB · SteamGridDB · Team Fortress 2 · TF2 Outpost · Warhammer · Xfire
Image hosting	500px · AOL Pictures · Blipfoto · Blingee · Canv.as · Camera+ · Cameroid · DailyBooth · Degree Confluence Project · DeviantART · Demotivalo.net · Flickr · Fotoalbum.hu · Fotolog.com · Fotopedia · Frontback · Geograph Britain and Ireland · Giphy · GTF Képhost · ImageShack · Imgh.us · Imgur · Inkblazers · Instagram · Kepfeltoltes.hu · Kephost.com · Kephost.hu · Kepkezelo.com · Keptarad.hu · Madden GIFERATOR · MLKSHK · Microsoft Clip Art · Microsoft Photosynth · Nokia Memories · noob.hu · Odysee · Panoramio · Photobucket · Picasa · Picplz · Pixiv · Portalgraphics.net · PSharing · Ptch · puu.sh · Rawporter · Relay.im · ScreenshotsDatabase.com · Sketch · Smack Jeeves · Snapjoy · Streetfiles · Tabblo · Tinypic · Trovebox · TwitPic · Wallbase · Wallhaven · Webshots · Wikimedia Commons
Knowledge/Wikis	arXiv · Citizendium · Clipboard.com · Deletionpedia · EditThis · Encyclopedia Dramatica · Etherpad · Everything2 · infoAnarchy · GeoNames · GNUPedia · Google Books (Google Books Ngram) · Horror Movie Database · Insurgency Wiki · Knol · Lost Media Wiki · Neoseeker.com · Notepad.cc · Nupedia · OpenCourseWare · OpenStreetMap · Orain · Pastebin · Patch.com · Project Gutenberg · Puella Magi · Referata · Resedagboken · SongMeanings · ShoutWiki · The Internet Movie Database · TropicalWikis · Uncyclopedia · Urban Dictionary · Urban Exploration Resource · Webmonkey · Wikia · Wikidot · WikiHow · Wikkii · WikiLeaks · Wikipedia (Simple English Wikipedia) · Wikispaces · Wikispot · Wik.is · Wiki-Site · WikiTravel · Word Count Journal
Magazines/Blogs/News	Cyberpunkreview.com · Game Developer Magazine · Gigaom · Hardware Canucks · Helium · JPG Magazine · Make Magazine · The Escapist · Polygamia.pl · San Fransisco Bay Guardian · Scoop · Regretsy · Yahoo! Voices
Microblogging	Heello · Identi.ca · Jaiku · Mommo.hu · Plurk · Sina Weibo · Tencent Weibo · Twitter · TwitLonger
Music/Audio	8tracks · AOL Music · Audimated.com · Cinch · digCCmixter · Dogmazic.net · Earbits · exfm · Free Music Archive · Gogoyoko · Indaba Music · Instacast · Instaudio · Jamendo · Last.fm · Music Unlimited · MOG · PureVolume · Reverbnation · ShareTheMusic · SoundCloud · Soundpedia · Spotify · This Is My Jam · TuneWiki · Twaud.io · WinAmp
People	Aaron Swartz · Michael S. Hart · Steve Jobs · Mark Pilgrim · Dennis Ritchie · Len Sassaman Project
Protocols/Infrastructure	FTP · Gopher · IRC · Usenet · World Wide Web BitTorrent DHT
Q&A	Askville · Answerbag · Answers.com · Ask.com · Askalo · Baidu Knows · Blurtit · ChaCha · Experts Exchange · Formspring · GirlsAskGuys · Google Answers · Google Baraza · JustAnswer · MetaFilter · Quora · Retrospring · StackExchange · The AnswerBank · The Internet Oracle · Uclue · WikiAnswers · Yahoo! Answers
Recipes/Food	Allrecipes · Epicurious · Food.com · Foodily · Food Network · Punchfork · ZipList
Social bookmarking	Addinto · Backflip · Balatarin · BibSonomy · Bkmrx · Blinklist · BlogMarks · BookmarkSync · CiteULike · Connotea · Delicious · Designer News · Digg · Diigo · Dir.eccion.es · Evernote · Excite Bookmark · Faves · Favilous · folkd · Freelish · Getboo · GiveALink.org · Gnolia · Google Bookmarks · Hacker News · HeyStaks · IndianPad · Kippt · Knowledge Plaza · Licorize · Linkwad · Menéame · Microsoft Developer Network · myVIP · Mister Wong · My Web · Mylink Vault · Newsvine · Oneview · Pearltrees · Pinboard · Pocket · Propeller.com · Reddit · sabros.us · Scloog · Scuttle · Simpy · SiteBar · Slashdot · Squidoo · StumbleUpon · Twine · Voat · Vizited · Yummymarks · Xmarks · Yahoo! Buzz · Zootool · Zotero
Social networks	Bebo · BlackPlanet · Classmates.com · Cyworld · Dogster · Dopplr · douban · Ello · Facebook · Flixster · FriendFeed · Friendster · Friends Reunited · Gaia Online · Google+ · Habbo · hi5 · Hyves · iWiW · LinkedIn · Miiverse · mixi · MyHeritage · MyLife · Myspace · myVIP · Netlog · Odnoklassniki · Orkut · Plaxo · Qzone · Renren · Skyrock · Sonico.com · Storylane · Tagged · tvtag · Upcoming · Viadeo · Vine · VK · WeeWorld · Weibo · Wretch · Xuite · Yahoo! Groups · Yahoo! Stars India · Yahoo! Upcoming · more sites...
Shopping/Retail	Alibaba · AliExpress · Amazon · Apple Store · Barnes & Noble · DirectCanada · eBay · Kmart · NCIX · Printfection · RadioShack · Sears · Sears Canada · Target · The Book Depository · ThinkGeek · Toys "R" Us · Walmart
Software/code hosting	Android Development · Alioth · Assembla · BerliOS · Betavine · Bitbucket · BountySource · Codecademy · CodePlex · Freepository · Free Software Foundation · GNU Savannah · GitHost · GitHub · GitHub Downloads · Gitorious · Gna! · Google Code · ibiblio · java.net · JavaForge · KnowledgeForge · Launchpad · LuaForge · Maemo · mozdev · OSOR.eu · OW2 Consortium · Openmoko · OpenSolaris · Ourproject.org · Ovi Store · Project Kenai · RubyForge · SEUL.org · SourceForge · Stypi · TestFlight · tigris.org · Transifex · TuxFamily · Yahoo! Downloads
Television/Radio	ABC · Austin City Limits · BBC · CBC · CBS · Computer Chronicles · CTV · Fox · G4 · Global TV · Jeopardy! · NBC · NHK · PBS · Penn & Teller: Bullshit! · The Howard Stern Show · TV News Archive (Understanding 9/11)
Torrenting/Piracy	ExtraTorrent · EZTV · isoHunt · KickassTorrents · The Pirate Bay · Torrentz · Library Genesis
Video hosting	Academic Earth · Bambuser · Blip.tv · Epic · Freshlive · Google Video · Justin.tv · Mixer · Niconico · Nokia Trailers · Oddshot.tv · Periscope · Plays.tv · Qwiki · Skillfeed · Stickam · TED Talks · Ticker.tv · Twitch.tv · Ustream · Videoplayer.hu · Viddler · Viddy · Vidme · Vimeo · Vine · Vstreamers · Yahoo! Video · YouTube · Famous Internet videos (Me at the zoo)
Web hosting	Angelfire · Brace.io · BT Internet · CableAmerica Personal Web Space · Claranet Netherlands Personal Web Pages · Comcast Personal Web Pages · Extra.hu · FortuneCity · Free ProHosting · GeoCities (patch) · Google Business Sitebuilder · Google Sites · Internet Centrum · MBinternet · MSN TV · Nifty · Nwnyet · Parodius Networking · Prodigy.net · Saunalahti Iso G · Swipnet · Telenor · Tripod · University of Michigan personal webpages · Verizon Mysite · Verizon Personal Web Space · Webs · Webzdarma · Virgin Media
Web applications	Mailman · MediaWiki · phpBB · Simple Machines Forum · vBulletin
Information	A Million Ways to Die on the Web · Backup Tips · Cheap storage · Collecting items randomly · Data compression algorithms and tools · Dev · Discovery Data · DOS Floppies · Fortress of Solitude · Keywords · Naughty List · Nightmare Projects · Rescuing floppy disks · Rescuing optical media · Site exploration · The WARC Ecosystem · Working with ARCHIVE.ORG
Projects	ArchiveCorps · Audit2014 · Emularity · Faceoff · FlickrFckr · Froogle · INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK (Internet Archive Census) · IRC Quotes · JSMESS · JSVLC · Just Solve the Problem · NewsGrabber · Project Newsletter · Valhalla · Web Roasting (ISP Hosting · University Web Hosting) · Woohoo
Tools	ArchiveBot · ArchiveTeam Warrior (Tracker) · Google Takeout · HTTrack · Video downloaders · Wget (Lua · WARC)
Teams	Bibliotheca Anonoma · LibreTeam · URLTeam · Yahoo Video Warroom · WikiTeam
Other	800notes · AOL · Akoha · Ancestry.com · April Fools' Day · Amplicate · AutoAdmit · Bre.ad · Circavie · Cobook · Co.mments · Countdown · Discourse · Distill · Dmoz · Easel · Eircode · Electronic Frontier Foundation · FanFiction.Net · Feedly · Ficlets · Forrst · FunnyExam.com · FurAffinity · Google Helpouts · Google Moderator · Google Poly · Google Reader · ICQmail · IFTTT · Jajah · JuniorNet · Lulu Poetry · Mobile Phone Applications · Mochi Media · Mozilla Firefox · MyBlogLog · NBII · Newgrounds · Neopets · Quantcast · Quizilla · Salon Table Talk · Shutdownify · Slidecast · Stack Overflow · SOPA blackout pages · starwars.yahoo.com · TechNet · Toshiba Support · USA-Gov · Volán · Widgetbox · Windows Technical Preview · Wunderlist · YTMND · Zoocasa
About Archive Team	Introduction · Philosophy · Who We Are · Our stance on robots.txt · Why Back Up? · Software · Formats · Storage Media · Recommended Reading · Films and documentaries about archiving · Talks · In The Media · FAQ

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[2] ttp://github.com/chronomex/urlteam

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[5] ttp://github.com/chronomex/urlteam

[6] ttp://blog.bitly.com/post/179664996/go-ahead-and-j-mp

[7] ttps://twitter.com/Adjix/status/154222637801943041

[8] ttp://blog.feedly.com/2014/10/28/feedly-url-shortener-retired/

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Contents

301Work cooperation

Tools

Terror of Tiny Town

Researching URL Shorteners

Common numbers

URL shorteners

Non-warrior projects

Warrior projects

Alive

"Official" shorteners

bit.ly aliases

Dead or Broken

External list

Discontinued

External lists to integrate

shortenurl/wiki/URLShorteningServices and longurl.org/services

Mashable

vanityurlshorteners.com

dig.do

hongkiat.com

English Wikipedia (deleted)

tiny-url.info

Archives

References

Weblinks

Common URL shortening software

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 | cl.ly ||
 | CloudApp ; requires application to create short URLs
+|-
+| cmplx.it || 2016-06-19
+|
+to 5 Character, some legacy 6 Character(bitly)
+asdASD123
+some 1 char, 2 char
+example: cmplx.it/Sh5j
+existing: 301, location:
+not existing: 404
+seems pretty slow, 25k google hits
 |-
 | cur.lv (CoinURL.com) || 2016-05-18
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 | Appears non-incremental ; allows unicode in short codes; appears alive as of 01:35, 10 February 2016 (EST)
 |-
-| durl.me || 2015-11-21
+| durl . me/durl.kr || 2016-06-19
-| 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)
+ex: http://durl . me/7ainhy http://durl . me/cfvj3d http://durl . me/cf9ssv
+Non Sequential, random 6 Char, Charset asd123, 165k hits(google)
+pretty slow, displays warning on new(low frequent?) sites.
+last twitterpost is from 2009
+Redirect: 302 Location, 200 div content a href url
+no redirect: 404
+very weird, has 2 ways of redirecting. Links for 200-Pages have to be extracted from html
 |-
 | 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)
+|-
+| fanpa.ge || 2016-06-19
+|
+-5 Character
+asdASD123
+Google sees 40k links, basically all 5 Character. some 3 Character links like asd, private?
+allows Custom urls
+redirect: 301, location
+no redirect: 404
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 | fav.me || 2016-05-18

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Revision as of 04:26, 21 June 2016

301Work cooperation

Tools

Terror of Tiny Town

Researching URL Shorteners

Common numbers

URL shorteners

Non-warrior projects

Warrior projects

Alive

"Official" shorteners

bit.ly aliases

Dead or Broken

External list

Discontinued

External lists to integrate

shortenurl/wiki/URLShorteningServices and longurl.org/services

Mashable

vanityurlshorteners.com

dig.do

hongkiat.com

English Wikipedia (deleted)

tiny-url.info

Archives

References

Weblinks

Common URL shortening software

Navigation menu

Search