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URLTeam
url shortening was a fucking awful idea[1]
url shortening was a fucking awful idea[1]
URL http://urlte.am
Status Online!
Archiving status In progress...
Archiving type DPoS
Project source Old: urlteam-stuff tinyback tinyarchive

New: terroroftinytown-client-grab terroroftinytown

Project tracker https://tracker.archiveteam.org:1338/
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

301works logo.jpg

The fine folks at archive.org have provided us with upload permissions to the 301Works archive. 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

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)  
| example URL
| 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

These are old grabs pre-dating the warrior project. Unless otherwise noted, they can be found in the last old-style dump on IA.

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

Name Est. number of shorturls Scraping done by Status Comments # in dump Example URL
goo.gl ? User:Scumola started (2011-03-04) goo.gl throttles pulls. Didn't make it into the last old-style dump. Unavailable as of 2017-08. 0 ?
ff.im ? User:Chronomex Dead only used by FriendFeed. No interface to shorten new URLs. Redirects to Facebook as of 2016-06-19 18:51 EDT (UTC-4) 1,189,782 http://ff.im/2p
4url.cc 1279 (2009-08-14) User:Chronomex done dead (2011-02-15). Redirect to ad-laden site as of 2016-06-19 18:51 EDT (UTC-4). Also on GitHub 1,279 http://4url.cc/Q
litturl.com 17096 (2010-04-15) User:Chronomex done dead (2010-11-18). No DNS as of 2016-06-19 18:51 EDT (UTC-4). Also on GitHub 17,096 http://litturl.com/ZTT
xs.md 3084 (2009-08-15) User:Chronomex done dead (2010-11-18). Homepage claims to be "a private folder" as of 18:51, 2016-06-19 (EDT). Also on GitHub 3,084 http://xs.md/AAZ
url.0daymeme.com 14867 (2009-08-14) User:Chronomex done dead (2010-11-18). Also on GitHub 14,867 ?
tr.im (old) 1990425 ? got what we could dead (2011-12-31) 1,990,425 ?
visibli (hex) 16777216 User:Chfoo Warrior done Using links.sharedby.co/links/ as URL prefix. Available on IA ? ?
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
zapd.co (Zapd) 326592 User:Chfoo done xxxx.zapd.co. Available on IA 0 ?
bre.ad (Bre.ad) 120932351 User:Chfoo incomplete (59771889 examined) de.ad (2013-11-18). Got what I can without overloading their EC2 instance. Available on IA 0 ?
arseh.at ? ? ? also worked on as a Warrior job, see below. 23,655 ?
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 ?
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 ?
kl.am ? ? ? Dead (as of 03:00, 2015-12-03 (EST)) 1,870,335 ?
links.sharedby.co ? ? ? 9,298,101 ?
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 ?
surl.ws ? ? ? Yes, there really are only 48 listed. 48 ?
tny.im ? ? ? 1,614 ?
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 ?
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 ?
tr.im (new) ? ? ? in the last old-style dump as a file called tr.im-relaunched.txt.xz 1,266,068 ?
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, which continued the grab up to "j5tc9". 8,432,282 ?
vbly.us ? ? ? also worked on as a Warrior job, see below. 114,924 ?
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

For the last 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.

Warrior project name Est. # shorturls Last scraped date Initially scraped date # checked Example URL Incr Comments
0-mk +/- ? 2018-12-28 2018-12-28 ? http://0.mk/1 ? Dead as of 2022-03-23
0rz-tw +/- ? 2019-04-26 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. Started a Grab from 0 starting 2019-04-26.
1r-hu +/- ? 2018-12-30 2014-12-02 660048 http://1r.hu/2lj0 Y Rescan from single digit commenced on 2018-12-30 after a cryptic done message was the only comment.
2-gp +/- ? 2024-12-04 2015-12-14 17,780,989 http://2.gp/MqPU (created 2018-12-28) 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. Appears to delete/terminate short urls after a certain date has passed.
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 +/- ? 2016-09-16 2016-02-27 41,660,850 http://7.ly/G9 http://7.ly/nBCq ? seems alive as of 2016-08-19; stopped on 2016-03-13 after accidentally storing a bunch of redirects to the home page;

appears to allow public shortening; "no similar looking letters; small or capital letters only"; ; HEAD works; 302 for valid AND invalid; invalid points to homepage;restarted on 2016-09-14 at "1000" (seq # 238328) (then quickly updated to "mzmw" (seq #5379834), because we'd already done the earlier part)

999-sh +/- ? 2018-12-28 2018-12-28 ? http://999.sh/1 ? Based on the YOURL scripts
adjix +/- ? 2015-1-24 2014-12-13 8,615,100 http://adjix.com/45fj ? Dead; uses custom code. As of 2018-12-12.
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, 2015-12-26 (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
abelinc-me +/- ? 2022-03-24 2022-03-24 0 https://abelinc.me/cwfv8 ? Based on YOURLS
aka-ms +/- ? 2024-12-04 2023-08-03 28,301 https://aka.ms/confidential or https://aka.ms/AAgh2el N Only Microsoft employees may create URLs on this shortener. Short URLs are not case sensitive and are either randomly generated (appears to be 7 characters) or completely arbitrary (including multiple '/'s). Returns 301 to the URL for success, or 302 to https://www.bing.com?ref=aka&shorturl=<id> on failure.
amp-gs +/- ? 2024-12-04 2022-05-7 0 https://amp.gs/jpWAq ? https://amp.gs/ redirects to https://amplifr.com/
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 +/- ? 2016-06-28 2016-06-20 15,950,550 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 2024-12-04 2014-11-22 5,241,010,050 https://bit.ly/1Zmfo8z N done: non-sequential 6 characters; current: non-sequential, 6 characters; uses custom code
buff-ly +/- ? 2016-03-28 2016-03-28 42,000 http://buff.ly/HSRKuV N Buffer App ; ex: http://buff.ly/1fPIjQf (301 - existing; 404 - non-existing), non-incremental (checked as of 02:03, 2015-12-07 (EST)); buff.ly/HSRKuV, buff.ly/1Xj8lhq 3.5Mio - asdASD123, 3.5Mio google hits, 6 and 7 char, Huge shortener. Long running Project for the future. Hosted on 2 servers at softlayer in Phoenix, Az. Protected by prolexic. Seems like it has not implemented rate-limiting. Tested with 500req in 1 min. ; Did some searches of 1, 2, 3 and 5 character codes, with absolutely no results seen.
bull-hn +/- 50,000 2016-09-06 2015-11-15 28,861,855 http://bull.hn/l/19JQE/ ? Vanity URL shortner for a recruiting company, "Bullhorn Reach"; 1st scrape on in 2015-11, re-scraped in Dec 2015 and again in 2016-09 (from 10000 to 2T6KA) Dead as of 2019-04-16
burl-se +/- 1,500 2018-07-27 2014-11-06 11,650 http://burl.se/428 Y 200 re-checked on 2015-11-08 ; 63 more found on 2016-06-09 ; full recheck on 2018-07-27. Dead as of 2023
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, 2015-12-07 (EST)); nothing found in 100,000 checks -- I think it's dead. Alive Rechecked 2016-07-20.
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, 2015-11-21 (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
cmplx-it +/- 36,252 2017-04-01 2017-03-29 4,965,750 cmplx.it/Sh5j ? 4 to 5 Character, some legacy 6 Character(bitly) ; asdASD123 ;some 1 char, 2 char ; existing: 301, location: ; not existing: 404 ; seems pretty slow, 25k google hits
cort-as +/- ? 2019-08-04 2019-08-04 ? http://cort.as/-1 ? Includes - in some urls appears to start at single character
cstu-io +/- ? 2024-12-04 2022-05-7 0 https://cstu.io/7b23cf ? https://cstu.io/ redirects back to https://contentstudio.io/
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 2018-12-29 2015-12-18 54,400 http://df4.us/mn4 M daringfireball.net private shortener : Alive 2015-12-17, 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; rescan on 2017-02-18 from seq# 31900; last found seq # 33417 (ps9) rescanned on 2018-12-29 last found sequence# was 33715
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
dlvr-it +/- ~ 120 million 2019-04-15 2019-04-03 289,157,150 http://dlvr.it/4Wj Y Requires free login; then requires connecting to another service; URLs are shortened when sent through. ( as of 01:36, 2015-11-02 (EST)); stopped scrape around hrLxw (seq # 257815314)
dwurl-hu +/- 2015-11-16 2015-11-16 3,473,050 http://dwurl.hu/gMEtiA ( created 01:36, 2015-11-02 (EST)) N Allows public shortening; appears to give 6 character, mixed case alphabetic (no digits), non-incremental URLs
dy-si +/- ? 2024-12-04 2022-05-11 0 https://dy.si/y9FX7 ? https://dy.si/ redirects to https://dynamicsignal.com/
ed-gr +/- ? 2024-12-04 2022-05-11 0 https://ed.gr/d0laa ? https://ed.gr/ redirects to https://meetedgar.com/. Lowercase alphabet letters and uppercase alphabet letters are not unique and interchangable. https://ed.gr/d0laa+ redirects to https://app.rebrandly.com/public/links/share?href=ed.gr/d0laa - as it is run by https://rebrandly.com/
fal-cn +/- ? 2024-12-04 2022-05-20 0 https://fal.cn/3oJic ? https://fal.cn/ redirects to https://www.brandwatch.com/#from-falcon - as Falcon.io has merged with Brandwatch. -_. in A-Za-z0-9 alphabet.
feedly_8 +/- ? 2015-01-03 2015-01-03 129,762,450 ? ? Banned; uses custom code
flip-it +/- ? 2016-11-30 2016-06-6 558,342,350 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 +/- ? 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 2015-11-16)
http://fwdurl.net/aYwa (created Dec 17, 2013)
http://fwdurl.net/bjkDtwYAoWSF (created 2015-12-04)
http://fwdurl.net/JEcCYlS1Qywv (created 2015-12-28)
? responds very slowly; stats (including creation date, & hit count) available by suffixing "!"
getsatisfaction-com +/- 8,450,272 2017-10-11 2017-10-09 9,214,450 https://getsatisfaction.com/t/2aoq7 ? Alias gsfn.us, see below
gg-gg +/- 5,091,505 2017-09-13 2017-05-15 108,543,250 http://gg.gg/4jkvk ? Seems to be sequential five-character lower-case alphanumeric, 301 on success, 302 to homepage on error.
gkurl-us +/- ? 2016-11-30 2016-11-19 13,666,000 http://gkurl.us/au http://gkurl.us/sloon http://gkurl.us/y2tZa N appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 2015-11-21 (EST); fully checked up through 3-character range; only found custom-names in 4-character range so far
go-microsoft-com +/- ? 2024-12-04 2023-08-03 838 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=506828 or https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=506828 Y Only Microsoft employees may create URLs on this shortener. URLs are numeric. '/p/' designates a valid URL should be served with a 301 redirect instead of a 302. Parties publish both 'styles' of the URLs. Returns 301 to the URL for success when using '/p/', or 302 without. Redirects to https://www.bing.com?ref=go&linkid=<id> on failure.
go-osu-edu +/- ? 2024-12-04 2022-05-13 0 https://go.osu.edu/3B ? Operated by The Ohio State University. Available for those that have a "Ohio State Name #" for an account. URLs can be customizable. Details can be found on https://go.osu.edu/
goo-gl +/- 10,000,000,000 ? 2019-04-19 2019-04-19 ? https://goo.gl/1111 M 4-6 chars, A-Za-z0-9, 302 is redirect, 404 is not found, 403 is banned, 302 to https://www.google.com/sorry/index* is rate limited, 200 is for deleted URLs. Use ?si=1 to skip interstitial warning page to be added 2024-08-23. Existing URLs to stop serving 2025-08-25.
gouri-tv +/- ? 2018-12-29 2018-12-29 ? http://gouri.tv/1 N Based on the YOURL scripts. Gives 301 on success and 302 to homepage on error.
go-usa-gov +/- 3,495,950 (as of 01:13, 2017-03-31 (EDT)) ? 2017-03-21 60909850 https://go.usa.gov/cSFeH N USA government shortlinks, non-sequential, appears to be 5 char [a-zA-Z0-9], may be worth getting a mapping from gibberish to URL; see also 1.USA.gov which is a bit.ly alias ; anyone with a US gov email address can create shorturls to gov web pages
hec-su +/- 518175 2015-12-25 2015-12-21 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 +/- ? 2016-06-28 2016-06-21 23,219,250 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/
hub-me-a +/- ? ? 2017-10-13 0 http://hub.me/alvyn ? "a"-type links of hub.me, internal shortener of HubPages. The shortcode in this project is only the part after the leading "a" (e.g. "lvyn" for the example). See below for details.
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. Had errors when trying to create new links, seems to be fixed (checked 2024-02-05)
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
kas-pr +/- 114,652 2017-10-09 2017-10-09 1,740,350 https://kas.pr/x4Hq ? Internal shortener of Kaspersky Lab. Codes are case-insensitive, so only scanning lower-case. Non-sequential, mostly 4 characters long (but some shorter ones exist as well). Stopped after no five-char codes up to 11acz were found.
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; parking page as of 04:40, 2018-07-28 (UTC)
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
l8r-it +/- ? 2024-12-04 2022-05-8 0 https://l8r.it/eAL4 ? https://l8r.it/ redirects to https://later.com/
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, 2015-12-09 (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 2016-07-20.
lnq-me +/- ? 2016-10-26 2016-10-6 50,037,400 http://lnq.me/DnXtHO ; lnq.me/qhuG07, lnq.me/lbLqT0 ? alive as of 2015-11-21 ; 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, 2015-11-21 (EST) ) ; alphabet: asdASD123 ; 1,5k ghits ; 6 char; existing: 301 - location; not existing: 404; only found 10 results in 20 days of searching 50 million possibilities; might be worth turning it back on, though
lttr-ai +/- ? 2024-12-04 2022-05-8 0 https://lttr.ai/tsAs ? https://lttr.ai/ redirects to https://missinglettr.com/
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, 2015-12-09 (EST); grabbed all of them on 2015-12-18.
m0e-me +/- ? 2019-04-14 2019-04-14 575290 m0e.me/1iu ? Doing a complete run through starting from 0
migre-me +/- 423,747,675 ? 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, 2015-12-14 (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[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]. 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. Recheck on 2017-02-18 starting from seq # 438648250, finished on 2017-02-27 at "w8zzz" (seq # 474886121). Recheck from there tried on 2017-06-12, but the site seemed unresponsive. ; site seems to be down as of 2019-04-02
minu-me +/- 463,698 2017-05-09 2017-05-02 2,450,427 http://minu.me/a45 ? minURL.fr links redirect to minu.me which seems to be alive (and in French) as of 2015-12-09 and 14:44, 2017-02-04 (EST)
mply-io +/- ? 2024-12-04 ? 83,775,589 ? Used for Monopoly GO! mobile game deep-link rewards.
mrte.ch +/- ? 2016-04-29 2016-03-14 113,153,450 http://mrte.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, 2016-03-14 (EDT) ; everything 404s as of 2016-04-29 02:15:15 -- we found 54,880,485 short links.
mysp-ac +/- ? 2024-12-04 2015-02-09 16,245,049 ? ? uses custom code
nblo-gs +/- > 51 million 2024-12-04 2019-04-3 123,371,600 http://nblo.gs/w453r ? requires GET requests; no obvious way to create URLs from the home page as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST); seems to have blocked us as of 2019-04-01
nig-gr +/- ? 2015-12-06 2014-11-06 15,145,600 ? ? Home page is a page that say File not found. (as of 01:38, 2015-11-09 (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) Is completely dead. Gives File not found for all results
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.in/[a-zA-Z]{1-3} (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT)); 102,199 found in 2016-04 scrape. May be sold, Alive Rechecked 2016-07-20. Dead as of 2018-12-30
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, 2016-03-30 (EDT); 7,408,862 found in 2016-03 scrape
ow-ly +/- ? 2024-12-04 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
pear-ly +/- 2,897,989 2017-04-03 2017-03-21 15,459,148 http://pear.ly/6J1H ? Official shortener for pearltrees.com. Returns 301 for existing AND non-existing shorturls as of 15:30, 2015-12-05 (EST))
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 +/- ? 2018-12-29 2015-04-11 334,350 http://piciurl.hu/7wr Y Initial scrape done on 2015-04-11; new scrape done on 2015-12-01 (up to seq# 11043); continued from there on 2017-02-18 for a short time, last found seq# 13686 (9_x). Short scrape done on 2018-12-29 found up to sequence# 13824
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 2012-05-01 and 2012-06-14) but promises to keep existing URLs working as of 01:03, 2015-12-10 (EST) (had 61,306 short URLs as of 2012-05-01); this WB entry shows some short URLs (5 characters, alphanumeric); paused for a while during 2016-02 for unclear reasons
poeurl-com +/- ? 2017-10-10 2017-09-30 1,538,550 http://poeurl.com/wwq ?
pub-vitrue-com +/- ? 2014-11-22 2014-11-16 15,067,550 http://pub.vitrue.com/ZxC2 ? 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, 2015-12-09 (EST); They made a full dump available after we emailed them! Here: http://qr.cx/dataset/qrcx_all_06eec9b9-1f29-4860-bd91-49c2d517d87d.7z[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] (IA item coming soon)
puri-na +/- ? 2024-12-04 2019-04-16 0 http://puri.na/gd ? Seems to be a private shortener for Purina, operated by bitly, but with different codes
qt-catbox-moe +/- ? 2019-04-7 2019-04-6 0 https://qt.catbox.moe/2aef83 ? at risk shortener is a splinter of https://catbox.moe/ returns 301 for successful redirect and 404 for not successful; case-insensitive; we ran this only for codes too short to be actually used (it only used 6 character ones), then the operator asked us WTF we were doing, and offered to make a dump available.
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, 2015-11-02 (EST)) (returns 301 for existing; 404 for non-existing); searched up to 1aqa on 2015-12-05. Alive Rechecked 2016-07-20.
rtsoftware-systems +/- ? 2019-04-19 2019-04-19 ? http://rtsoftware.systems/1 ? Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.
sharedby-co_6 +/- ? 2016-10-28 2015-01-29 93,044,500 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 2016-07-20. ; as of 2016-10-28, http://sharedby.co/km3B4o (and others) is returning 301 without a Location header -- needs to be looked into
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 2016-07-20.
shorturl-at +/- ? 2024-12-04 2022-05-13 0 https://www.shorturl.at/dorgh ? URLs are case-insensitive, like https://www.shorturl.at/dorgh and https://www.shorturl.at/dorGH being the same (project set up to only accept lowercase letters). https://shorturl.at/ redirects to https://www.shorturl.at/
shortdoi-org +/- ~10,000 2016-06-30 2016-06-30 113,894 http://dx.doi.org/bkbk Y Creates short aliases for DOIs/links. (Apparently they are valid DOIs) Appears sequential, [a-z], 4 character, duplicates re-use existing code: 10.1002/fld.4272 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fld.4272) becomes http://doi.org/bkbj and doi:10/bkbj Next in sequence: http://doi.org/bkbk as of 23:34, 2016-06-29 (EDT) ; shortdoi.org/shortcode, shortdoi.org/10/shortcode and dx.doi.org/shortcode all redirect to dx.doi.org/10/shortcode which in turn redirects to the actual DOI (in the form dx.doi.org/10/doi). doi.org/shortcode and doi.org/10/shortcode redirect to the actual DOI without the dx part (e.g. doi.org/10/doi); 10,809 found.
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.me/[a-zA-Z0-9]{1-4}, (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT)); appeared to be down on April 16 -- should probably restart 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
sketchfab-com +/- ? ? 2017-10-10 0 https://skfb.ly/GXzZ, https://skfb.ly/6nCrW ? Alias skfb.ly, see below
spnsr-tw +/- ? 2019-04-04 2019-04-02 http://spnsr.tw/t1yaP ? requires GET requests; associated with sponsoredtweets.com; searched up to "KsLg" (11073650) without finding anything; will restart when more examples are seen
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 2016-07-20.
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 2016-07-20.
stuf-in +/- ? 2024-12-04 2022-05-7 0 https://stuf.in/b95jak ? https://stuf.in/ is an image of 2 blue butterflies with the text "Socialize Your StuffTM". Unknown if still creating new IDs.
sx3-se +/- ? 2016-01-1 2016-01-1 7,000 http://sx3.se/7 ? private shortener for swedishstartupspace.se; 948 found
t-ly +/- ? 2024-12-04 2022-05-7 0 https://t.ly/He4A ? According to [1], as of 17:51, 2022-05-07 (UTC), there are "over 10,574,687 links shortened".
t7-hu +/- ? 2014-12-13 2014-12-13 585,800 ? ? Doesn't make any more shorturls
techme-me +/- ? 2016-10-05 2016-09-15 152199550 http://techme.me/BekB http://techme.me/A2Fw http://techme.me/BSkF ? alive as of 2016-08-18; official shortener for Techmeme; (unclear if sequential, [0-9a-zA-Z]{4}) Valid returns 301 redirect, invalid 404 (all the 4-char test values tried returned results) (GET/HEAD)
theguardian-com +/- ? 2016-11-07 2016-10-14 71,910,900 theguardian.com/p/3f7ca ? The Guardian (weird format - https://gu.com/p/3f7ca ) ; gu.com redirects to the same shortcode at www.theguardian.com/p
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; appears to not be accepting new URLs as of 19:33, 2018-12-15 (UTC)
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, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
tinyurl_7 +/- 10,000,000,000 2024-12-04 2014-11-22 3,594,972,825 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 http://tiny.pl/g78rl ? Sequential, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 301 (Location: http://tiny.pl/404.php), http://tiny.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
tip-pe +/- ? 2019-04-16 2019-04-16 ? ? ? Claimed to be a private url shortener no way of creating new short urls. Only appears to have 3 digit short codes
toi-in +/- ? 2024-12-04 2022-05-7 0 https://toi.in/XpjP_a70 ?
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) Now appears to be dead leading only to a suspicious looking wordpress site
tr-im_gravity4 +/- ? 2014-12-12 2014-12-01 42,813,150 ? ? done: sequential to 42pzz ; dead (2014-07-17) ; Appears incremental - Ex: http://tr.im/44tn2 http://tr.im/44tn4. Examples redirect to homepage, may be alive Rechecked 2016-07-20.
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). Alive as of 2017-06-22, database download link now broken.
urlcut-com +/- ? 2017-03-25 2017-03-21 740,400 http://urlcut.com/1xvha ? "We are not currently accepting new redirects at this time." ; existing ones seem to still work, as of 02:09, 2015-11-02 (EST) ; it returns 302 for both existing *AND* non-existing URLs, and redirects to /abuse.html for terminated ones - 'seems to be done', Paused on 00:52, 2017-03-25 (EDT)
u-to +/- ? 2015-11-19 2015-05-02 54,190,499 http://u.to/5pkIDw; http://u.to/HzA-Aw ? Doesn't allow new shortened URLs, as of 01:57, 2015-11-19 (EST); checked all the 4 character possibilities; found 13,315,311 URLs. Alive Rechecked 2016-07-20. ; requires GET (not HEAD) requests; returns 302 with target in Location header, 404 for invalid
u4-hu +/- ? 2016-11-21 2014-11-16 98,813,750 http://u4.hu/x/5Oz ? Appeared down for a while, but alive as of 2016-07-20. ; 2nd scrape started 2016-09-03 at shortcode "200"
vbly-us +/- ? 2015-11-09 2015-01-11 628,650 http://vbly.us/2mwv Y new shorturls: sequential; 2015-11-09 scrape from 2jp6 up to 2mwv (seq # 123000)
vgd_6 +/- 20,606,232 ? 2015-02-14 2,349,689,750 https://v.gd/FFF54S; https://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, 2016-05-05 (EDT)) "Shortening 20,606,232 URLs". Alive Rechecked 2016-07-20, Had errors when trying to create new links, seems to be fixed (checked 2024-02-05)
viddy-it +/- ? 2014-12-18 2014-11-16 832,351,700 ? ? dead; viddy; partially saved
waa-ai +/- ? 2023-07-18 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. Started rerun from 0 on 2023-07-18. Stopped rerun on 2023-08-04 with sequence number 6671920. There were some strange 502s that were unable to be figured out. Recommend running from 0 in another 5 years.
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, 2016-04-29 (EDT); As of 00:04, 2016-06-10 (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.
wp-me +/- 122,080,510 2017-10-22 2017-10-07 166,679,150 http://wp.me/f2B5 ? Blog IDs; see the further down for details on the shortener
wp-me +/- 18,075,532 2018-12-20 2018-12-16 33,029,850 Continuation of the above starting from the last result in 2017, 9ixzz. Last result in this run: ay3io. Tracker' found/scanned numbers include the previous run (i.e. 140,156,042 and 199,709,000, respectively).
xco +/- ? 2014-11-22 2014-11-06 80,319,800 http://x.co/1IxUV
http://x.co/1IxUW
http://x.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

Support of GoDaddy Shortener links in customer accounts has been discontinued unsure for how long but discovered to be the case on 2023-07-20

xn--i-8ia-ga +/- ? 2017-01-26 2016-12-6 85,085,600 http://www.ĝi.ga/lolt ? Esperanto-language link shortening service. Alive as of 15:55, 2016-12-05 (EST)
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, 2016-05-14 (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 2016-07-20.
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, 2016-05-15 (EDT)); uses custom code (for yatuc, not yatuc-com job). Dead requires password to add new short urls Rechecked 2016-07-20.
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; tried scraping some more on 2018-07-27, but didn't get any results
zc-vg +/- ? 2024-12-04 2022-05-11 0 https://zc.vg/0GMqC ? https://zc.vg/ redirects to https://www.zoho.com/campaigns/explainer/zcvg.html. Invalid IDs redirect to https://campaigns.zoho.com/InvalidShortURL.zc
zpr-io +/- ? ? 2017-09-30 0 http://zpr.io/nnK7K ? URL shortener for zapier .com. Their twitter integration will auto shorten links before it posts to twitter. Seems to be the only way to create links. You are able to do it with a free account but it takes some setup. On success it gives HTTP/1.1 302 and redirects to the URL via Location header. On fail it gives HTTP/1.1 200 and spits out a short json error (/--test--). Appears to be sequential (/nnidd and /nnide). Likewise /nnK7K and /nnK7L work but /nnK7l does not (as of 2017-09-29). No public URL count available. More extensive notes here https://gist.github.com/Soulflare3/d3c016f27439630b926527b287687aba
zurl-ws +/- 2,647 2023-07-20 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, 2016-05-15 (EDT)). Alive requires account to use Rechecked 2016-07-20. Rerun from 0 finishing on 2023-07-20 with 45 more urls discovered from the last time it was run. Lowest Sequence number was 4245 that resolved successfully and ran up to Lowest Sequence number 343600. Investigation needs to be done on random short links giving 502s consistently. Perhaps broken?
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[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] (last updated 2009-08-14), http://code.google.com/p/shortenurl/wiki/URLShorteningServices[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] (Updated 2011-05-19; not fully integrated yet), https://www.hashtags.org/platforms/twitter/list-of-url-shorteners/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], http://bit.do/list-of-url-shorteners.php[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] (as of 01:49, 2016-02-10 (EST)), http://blogtimenow.com/free-lists/free-url-shortener-services-shrink-links/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] (as of 03:08, 2016-04-29 (EDT))

Shortener Last checked Example URL Notes
0x0.st 2023-05-16 https://0x0.st/QX 302 redirect on success, 404 on error; source code is available at https://github.com/mia-0/0x0; less than 1k URLs as of 2017-01-01.
0x.co 2023-05-16 https://0x.co/BY5SWP A "universal shortener" that also supports URLs.
1o2.ir 2023-05-16 http://1o2.ir/u4qer Iranian shortener; redirects using JavaScript; alias: qqt.ir; shortcodes: [a-z0-9]{5}. Not incremental.
1url.cz 2023-05-18 https://1url.cz/5r7dh Czech URL shortener. Non-sequential. Returns 301 on success, 404 on invalid URL.
2137.pl 2020-01-04 https://2137.pl/LVVikk https://2137.pl/mjlRqu https://2137.pl/EqaZUT 301 to destination URL or / for invalid, random 6 character URLs, date based on domain creation, running on/behind Cloudflare, extremely minimal with only a box for URLs in the middle. Found use in https://social.hackerspace.pl/@selfisekai/111539961891472661
26r.nl 2023-05-16 https://26r.nl/qdsm9v Dutch shortener, non sequential short URLs
abelinc.me 2023-05-16 Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.
Acorta.me 2023-05-16 usable through Tw Blue Twitter client. Incremental (2XQ, 2XR, shortcodes started with single character), returns 302 if the url is valid (correct URL in location header), 404 otherwhise.
ad7.biz 2023-05-16 http://ad7.biz/oLJz pays short URL creators; ad-heavy with obfuscated JavaScript. appears incremental.
adf.ly 2023-05-16 http://adf.ly/bnpYL
http://adf.ly/1RP4DP
incremental; displays interstitial ads, so requires custom code; aliases: q.gs, j.gs (separate shortcodes?). Now redirects to Linktiverse?
adfoc.us 2023-05-16 http://adfoc.us/x65403071 displays interstitial ads; appears to require certain headers; target link as cleartext in HTML; current shortcodes appear to be incremental decimal numbers with a prepended "x" (as of 2017-08-21 19:50 UTC), but there are also other formats.

curl --header "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,appn/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8" --header "User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36" http://adfoc.us/serve/?id=27122857065955

adshrink.it 2023-05-16
ai6.net 2023-05-16 https://ai6.net/z7FXsZ Return on success: [301]. Return on error: [410]. Seems to be non-sequential. No Login required to create shortened URLs.
alli.pub 2023-05-16 https://alli.pub/6ayfct Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9]{6}. 6 character letters long only. Not sequential. Invalid entries give 404s. Case-sensitive.
archive.today 2024-08-21 https://archive.ph/lMV4d
https?://archive\.(today|is|li|vn|fo|md|ph|cc)/[0-9a-Z]{4,5}
Archive.today is a web page archival site like the Wayback Machine. After submitting a web page, unfortunately the result is put behind a shortcode, similarly to perma.cc or gyo.to (also found on this page).

5 random characters: [0-9a-Z], used 4 character codes in its heyday until that filled up.
HEAD request works intuitively and everything needed in is the header "link".

atres.red 2023-05-16 https://atres.red/0rtpn2 Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9_]+. 6 character letters long but sometimes can be 10 character letters long such as http://atres.red/09sw517348. https://atres.red/0rtpn is the same as https://atres.red/0rtpn2. Only the first 4 character letter in an entry are important, since the fifth character letter can use any alphabet, and the sixth character letter is optional. Invalid URLs give 404s.
aws3-demo.link (2023-05-15) Main website is aws3.link and appears to be a demo. Looks like an option to expire shortened domains after a set amount of hours but unclear if the demo site is wiped or not.
b23.ru 2023-05-22 https://b23.ru/rv5g 301 on success, 404 on error. Homepage was moved to https://z23.ru/ before 2023-05-22.
b2n.ir 2024-05-01 http://b2n.ir/z75884 Short link creation only works with SMS confirmation. Not sure if other different or other custom URLs are possible.
bc.vc 2023-05-16 http://bc.vc/8nCbMs displays interstitial ads
bernie.to 2023-05-16 https://bernie.to/mJC6v 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, 2016-03-21 (EDT)
bfy.tw 2023-05-22 https://bfy.tw/Tvvy All links I've seen to this shortener redirect to lmgtfy.com (Let Me Google That For You). 302 on success 404 on error. Not sure if possible to create new short urls.
bit.do 2023-05-16 https://bit.do/ci7JZ Appears non-incremental, public method allowed on Homepage, edit/delete/change destination allowed only after login.

Short code ci7JZ points to this page. Adding "-" after short urlshows statistics, default public, but can be made private if logged in. Custom words allowed. Non-custom Shorturls are random. Response Header is HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently. Returns the destination in the Location: header. A link created on 2016-08-04 00:01:43 display message in its private statics/admin page "This is link number 22183012 created ....". No API/Bookmarklet/Extensions. Offers custom domain at $85/year, but can also be addded for free.

b.link/bl.ink 2023-05-16 Trying to be the next bitly. Offers plenty of custom domains as well as choice between the redirect being a 301 or a 307. Warrants a list of aliases on the wiki.
bnc.lt 2023-05-16 https://bnc.lt/8tracks-ios
https://bnc.lt/8tracks-android
https://bnc.lt/8tracks-windows
Part of branch.io.
branch.io 2023-05-16 Offers custom short URLs for deep linking and redirects. Uses bnc.lt domain.
budurl.com 2023-09-06 https://budurl.com/s5bl Part of bl.ink. Appears non-incremental, apparently all custom names; only paying clients allowed to create URLs (checked as of 02:03, 2015-12-07 (EST))
buzurl.com 2023-05-16 http://buzurl.com/li04 Example: http://buzurl.com/li04 ; link broken, home page is blank as of 23:40, 2015-12-19 (EST). Part of bl.ink
cede.la 2019-04-16 Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.
chng.it 2023-05-16 URL shortener for https://www.change.org/. Most IDs have 8 character letters, with some being at 10 character letters.
cht.tw 2023-05-16 https://cht.tw/x/vp87d
https://xuite.tw/x/vp87d (alias)
link creation API
301 redirect on success, 302 redirect to https://www.cht.com.tw/ on error; [0-9a-z]{1,5}, case sensitive.
clck.ru 2023-05-16 Allows New Urls to be created. Gives 404 on error and 302 to a yandex redirect on success which then redirects to content. May be incremental tests were inconclusive.
cl.ly 2023-05-16 CloudApp ; requires application to create short URLs
clicky.me 2023-05-16 Requires paid account (& installation of a tracking system on your website) to create links; HEAD requests seem to return 301 with Location; non-existing seem to return 302 to homepage. "In maintenance mode"
clvr.rocks 2023-05-16 https://clvr.rocks/478b7a7176 https://clvr.rocks/ redirects to https://www.carlover.co.uk/detail/used-peugeot-207-cc-carlover-ni-belfast-northern-ireland-a792bd967c. Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9]{10}. 10 character letters long only. Non-sequential.
cort.as 2023-05-16 http://cort.as/-DX0b Accepting Url shorteners. Gives 200 on error and 301 on success. URLs may be sequential testing was inconclusive. All Links found have a - before the actual short code for example
cpc.cx 2023-05-16 Run by Canard PC, a French gaming magazine, however has a public interface to allow anyone to shorten a URL. The acronym cpc.cx is stated to stand for "Canard PC Crush linX". Website copyright notice is "(c) Teraboule Technology 2009-2016" (viewed in 2019-12). "Closed to public"
cur.lv (CoinURL.com) 2016-05-18 http://cur.lv/ypc7w
http://cur.lv/ypc7x
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]{5}. Javascript updates HTML body: ifr.src = "http://cur.lv/redirect_curlv.php?code=" + escape(c) + "&ticket=" + ticket + "&r=" + (document.referrer ? escape(document.referrer) : );, destination link in <a ..id="skip-ad" >.
cutt.ly 2023-05-16 By default links are incremental, but custom links are/were possible. Unknown links redirect to https://cutt.ly/404 with 302 status, found links use 301 status code. Uses cloudflare.
del.ly 2023-05-16 http://del.ly/6012BoNrp 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]{5}, not clear if sequential or otherwise (recent links seem to be of the form 601#Bxxxx) del.ly/6010BUbi6 (301 Redirect, destination in Location:, invalid returns 301 to http://del.ly/error?url=[invalid code])
derpy.me 2023-05-16 http://derpy.me/W0ocw
http://derpy.me/GigAo
Popular URL shortener in the My Little Pony fandom. 61641 shorturls. Random identifiers, appear to be [a-zA-Z0-9]{5}. Valid links return a 302 redirect, destination in Location header. Invalid links return 302 with Location: https://derpy.me/. Lost its database once already in 2015-03 (see http://derpy.me/about and https://twitter.com/derpyme/status/580403557939154944), unknown if newly generated links may collide with old ones from before then. Run by two people, contacted to inform about 301Works. Example links generated in quick succession.
dibb.me 2023-05-16 https://dibb.me/Ae8rmY https://dibb.me/ has a QR code that changes per visit/refresh. 6 character letters long only. Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9]{6}. Case-sensitive. Invalid entries redirect to https://dibb.me/error.php?a=nf that has a message saying "The requested link is no longer available!" regardless if it was previously valid or not.
did.li 2024-03-29 https://did.li/AgZ5q Security has been upped after a recent cyber attack – unknown what that means for discovery
dlsh.it 2023-07-28 http://dlsh.it/tK3uE6b 301 on success or failure; seems to use trib.al (http://dlsh.it/xxx redirects to a trib.al 404 page)
dogeurl.com 2023-05-22 https://dogeurl.com/dogecoin
https://dogeurl.com/video
Non-incremental, alphabet [A-Za-z0-9]{6}, 6 characters long, with custom option. Valid: 301 to destination, Invalid: 302 to https://dogeurl.com/invalid.php
doiop.com 2018-12-27 Appears non-incremental ; allows unicode in short codes; appears alive as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (EST)
dstats.net 2023-06-01 http://dstats.net/fwd/95d6a
http://dstats.net/fwd/xqhkck
durl.me / durl.kr 2023-05-16 http://durl.me/7ainhy
http://durl.me/cfvj3d
http://durl.me/cf9ssv
appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 2015-11-21 (EST) 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
dy.fi 2023-05-20 https://dy.fi/i Finnish site (although in English), shortlink maker is on a subpage; claims to erase links when they haven't been used for 6 months
e.xoc.uam.mx 2023-05-20 https://e.xoc.uam.mx/CDUN6 Uses character lettters A-Z (or a-z), and 0-9. 5 character letters long only. Case-insensitive.
easyurl.net 2023-05-20 http://easyurl.net/afd2f
http://easyurl.net/5e3a
(alias: atu.ca , readthis.ca , clickthru.ca , redirects.ca ) Appears non-incremental; only available to customers of easyDNS.com ; Ex: http://easyurl.net/afd2f easyurl.net/5e3a ; seems alive; alphabet upper and lower case and digits; excluded from google; 4-5 char, some custom; existing: 302 - location; not existing: 301 - http://easyurl.net/local404.php
go.enderman.ch 2023-09-23 https://go.enderman.ch/dont-click https://go.enderman.ch/github https://go.enderman.ch/3UtP0fN https://go.enderman.ch/PUlg9U2 URL shortener and website for the Enderman YouTube channel (alt channel). 7 Alphanumerical characters ([a-zA-Z0-9]{7}) or custom. Does not appear to be public access (bare URL redirects to home page). Has a favicon, returns 302 on redirect with Location header, 404 on not found.
encurtador.com.br 2024-01-11 https://www.encurtador.com.br/aiuzO (Google homepage); https://www.encurtador.com.br/jlJN9 (this Wiki article) Brazilian shortener. Links that do not get "at least 1 click a month" are deleted. Seemingly random shortcodes, not sequential; a Google search for site:www.encurtador.com.br shows that shortcodes seem to follow [a-zA-Z0-9]{5} (excluding custom links from premium accounts). Success returns 302 with destination URL in the Location header; failure returns 302 with "https://www.encurtador.com.br/" in the Location header. If you do not include the "www." subdomain, requests return a 301 redirect to the WWW subdomain first.
edu.nl 2023-05-20 https://edu.nl/bgu78 URL shortener for Dutch academic institutions, operated by the Surf cooperation. Requires an account at a Dutch university/higher education/school to create links. Success: returns 307 with URL in the location header. Not found: returns 404. Links "do not expire", but can be edited and deleted. Assigns random IDs of exactly 5 characters, [a-z0-9]{5}.
esgr.xyz 2023-05-20 https://esgr.xyz/archiveteam
smh.re (eu.smh.re / mpg.smh.re / msab.smh.re / google.smh.re / zendesk.smh.re) 2023-05-20 https://eu.smh.re/008p
https://mpg.smh.re/2jC3
https://msab.smh.re/Up
https://google.smh.re/0qCF
https://zendesk.smh.re/9hw
https://smh.re/ redirects to https://smarp.com/. Alphabet is [A-Za-z0-9-_]+. Javascript redirecting involved. Invalids are 400s.
fanpa.ge 2023-05-20 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
fckaf.de 2023-05-20 https://fckaf.de/gvZ Return on success:[200]. Return on error:[404]. Seems to be non-sequential. No Login required to create shortened URLs.
ffm.to 2023-05-20
firsturl.de (firsturl.net / wyon.de / fiurl.de) 2023-05-20 http://firsturl.de/6b1A2Kv
http://firsturl.net/6b1A2Kv
Allows public shortening.
www.flq.us 2023-05-20 http://www.flq.us/a Closed due to abuse. Existing links still work Curious in the flq.us/a for example first 301 redirects to www.flq.us/a before redirecting to desired content. 301 on successful redirect and 404 on error.
fork.cc 2023-05-20 Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.
fuck.it 2023-05-20 https://fuck.it/0hAxF Returns 301 on success and 200 on error.
gdurl.com (yuarel.com) 2023-05-20 http://gdurl.com/s3tF allows public shortening of Google Drive public-linked files. 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, 2016-02-24 (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
go.web.cern.ch/go 2023-05-22 https://go.web.cern.ch/go/dw8K
https://go.web.cern.ch/go/csL9
https://go.web.cern.ch/go/datacentrebynumbers
New URLs can only be created by those with a CERN account, URLs can also be deleted by users. [a-zA-Z0-9]{4}, seemingly not sequential. Returns 301 on success and 404 on error. cern.ch/go is an alias but will always return 302 and redirect to the corresponding go.web.cern.ch/go link.
hive.co/l 2023-05-20 https://hive.co/l/a
https://hive.co/l/aa
https://hive.co/l/aaa
https://hive.co/l/aaaa
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.
hotshorturl.com 2023-05-20 https://hotshorturl.com/fv57 Requires free account to shorten URLs
hpe.to 2023-05-20 https://hpe.to/6015KFaex URL redirects are generally related to https://www.hpe.com/. Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9]+. Case-sensitive. Implemented by Sprinklr.
htn.to 2023-05-20 https://htn.to/Rn5SvBSBkj Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9]+. Invalid entries redirect to https://hpe.to/error?url= as 200s with the invalid entry identification at the end of the URL. Invalid entries give 404s.
hubs.la 2023-05-20 https://hubs.la/Q015jY4M0 https://hubs.la/ redirects to https://policy.hubspot.com/abuse-complaints. Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9-_]{8}. 8 character letters long only. Case-sensitive.
iir.ai 2023-05-22 https://iir.ai/Oj9fUQ No Idea how to actually make new short urls and it is very complicated and spammy to actually reach the end goal
intip.in 2023-05-20 https://intip.in/5AHh
https://intip.in/1TWy
Indonesian link shortener made by Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS). No account needed, 302 if valid, 200 if not found, not incremental; adding + after the shortened link gives more info.
joturl.com 2023-05-20 Doesn't appear guessable, HTML redirect ; smarturl.eu redirects here, but claims "not to be active"
katzr.net 2023-05-20 https://katzr.net/4c993f IDs appear to be random. Returns a 301 error for both invalid and valid shortcodes. Destination is returned in the Location: header. http:// URLs redirect to https://. URLs without the www subdomain redirect to the same URL with the www subdomain.
kaywa.me 2023-06-01 http://kaywa.me/9Eqme Gives 200 for error or bad code. Gives 302 for successful redirect. Starts at single character from observation.
kics.it 2023-05-20 shourturl creation restricted to users of MiniCRM
kko.to 2023-05-20 http://kko.to/yu0n2v756 Accessing http://kko.to/ on it's own gives a 404. Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9-_]{9}. Invalid entries give 404s. Not sequential. Case-sensitive. 9 character letters long only.
kortlink.dk 2023-05-20 https://kortlink.dk/a
https://kortlink.dk/xy5n
https://kortlink.dk/2kx25
https://kortlink.dk/archiveteam/2kx25
Danish URL shortener. URLs are generated sequentially, starting at kortlink.dk/a and adding extra characters when exhausted. URLs are case insensitive. For 1 and 2 character URLs, the character set seems to be [a-oq-z0-9]{1,2}, while it changes to [a-hkmnp-z2-9]{3,4} for 3 and 4 characters. Total number of links today exceeds 1,298,624 as of 2023-06-01. Valid links return a 302 status code with a valid Location header, while invalid links return a 302 status code with an empty Location header.
kuku.lu 2024-03-07 https://kuku.lu/s2e7d7d
lingid.ee 2023-05-20 Based on Gempixel's shortener, the page used to also shorten urls for lingid.eu min.ee mmmm.ee and lmo.ee what are all now dead. Hosted and managed by Virtuaal OÜ.
ln.is 2023-05-20 http://ln.is/vine.co/v/UA0PH linkis.com (also provides a way to comment on the linked page) -- the destination server appears to be included in the shortcode, which should make it harder to scrape (as of 02:56, 2015-12-12 (EST))
lnk.to 2023-05-20 https://lnk.to/6eRPay4Z https://lnk.to/ redirects to https://www.linkfire.com/. Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9-_]+. Custom links possible. Most entries are not redirects such as https://lnk.to/10th_Reverberation_2 but others are redirects, such as https://lnk.to/6eRPay4Z accordingly. Invalid entries give 404s. Example: https://lnk.to/cztecCDg
ly.my 2023-05-20 https://ly.my/ofqi
merky.de 2023-06-01 http://merky.de/hw7gav Public shortlink creation is limited to certain countries, including Germany and Spain.
mgnet.me 2023-05-20 http://mgnet.me/bOwH7Kc
http://mgnet.me/ZxVD8CX
http://mgnet.me/bwxF6mZ
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: 2014-10 ZxVD8CX; 2016-05-06 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).
miburl.com 2023-05-20 http://miburl.com/Onm1eE Url shortener for Mibbit. Not Sequential. 302 on successful redirect. 404 on error.
monurl.ca 2023-05-20 https://monurl.ca/8nex sequential and at 8nex at the time of writing + an option to write whatever you want, an account is required to create a shorturl from it but it used to not require one, a good shortened URL returns "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" and it does send the location header with the correct URL, a bad URL sends "HTTP/1.1 302 Found" and the homepage (https://monurl.ca) in the location header. This URL shortener is popular in the education sector in Québec, Canada. Based on the YOURLS software.
moourl.com 2016-03-14 Random (alive as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT))
ms.spr.ly 2023-05-20 http://ms.spr.ly/6017wLr7t
http://ms.spr.ly/2018-us-open-del-potro-vs-verdasco
Invalid entries redirect to https://ms.spr.ly/error?url= with the entry ID at the end of the URL. Can have custom URLs
multy.me 2023-05-20 https://multy.me/1jkSre
https://multy.me/OYyr33
Shortens a list of links. Announcement on HN, Source.
my.dot.tk/tweak Appears non-incremental
naver.me 2023-05-20 http://naver.me/5kqyVJn0 URL redirects are generally https://naver.com/ links. Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9]{8}. 8 character letters long only. Case-sensitive.
nixle.us 2023-05-20 https://nixle.us/BPC4E Used by local governments(example being Fairfax County) to send out alerts. Seems to be sequential, and a alphanumeric 5-digit code. Both active and inactive links return 200.
nj-ne.ws 2023-05-20 http://nj-ne.ws/8SkXwlG http://nj-ne.ws/ redirects to https://www.nj.com/ - which all of the entries redirect to articles of the website. Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9]{6}. 6 character letters long minimum. Not sequential. Invalid entries give 404s. Case-sensitive. Powered by https://short.io/ when checking the 404 page.
nohref.hu 2023-05-20 https://nohref.hu/URLTeam Hungarian site; Allows custom shorturl & deletes links after a specified time period (or 1 year without use)
notlong.com 2023-05-20 http://yeitoo.notlong.com Appears to be alpha-only - doesn't seem to be allow creating new shorturls, as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST)
nowlinks.net 2023-05-20 http://nowlinks.net/Qh7id2 Example URL created on 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT)
okt.to 2023-05-20 https://okt.to/ZwIO9l https://okt.to/ redirects to https://www.oktopost.com/. Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9]{6}. 6 character letters long only. Not sequential. Case-insensitive. Invalid entries give 404s.
onl.jp 2023-10-21 https://onl.la/7YyXLi2, https://onl.tw/5249hn7, https://onl.bz/1m5ZC3m, https://onl.sc/DYJY5E2 Japanese site; shortener interface is at https://url.onl.jp/. Choice of 4 domains. Appears to be 7 random characters in [A-Za-z0-9] Entries behave differently depending on domain; onl.la 301 redirects on success while the other domains have a interstitial page with a 5 second delay and manual click through. Invalid entries give 200 and load the domain homepage (a list of tools, but onl.tw has them in Chinese).
orlo.uk 2023-05-20 http://orlo.uk/-_Campaign_Against_Living_Miserably_qyYXY
https://orlo.uk/Z59Hx
Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9-_]+. Can have custom URLs. 5 character letters long only on non-custom URLs. Invalid entries give 404s.
ouo.io 2023-05-20 http://www.ouo.io/iGKTD No Login required to create a URL. The links seem to be non-sequential.
perma.cc 2023-05-20 http://perma.cc/S9DV-WB4Z Web snapshotting for academics, while not strictly an URL shortener, I'd like to see all of the perma.cc item pages in the Wayback. Here's how to generate the list of all public perma.cc/FOO links:

curl 'https://api.perma.cc/v1/public/archives/?limit=3&offset=0' | bin/jq '.objects[] | .guid' curl 'https://api.perma.cc/v1/public/archives/?limit=3&offset=3' | bin/jq '.objects[] | .guid'

pin.it 2023-05-20 https://pin.it/g7q6jfH https://pin.it/ redirects to https://www.pinterest.com/. Redirects to Pinterest content, as links can be grabbed through the "Send this pin" and selecting the 'Copy link" button. button Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9-_]{7}. 7 character letters long only. Not sequential. https://pin.it/1 redirects to https://api.pinterest.com/url_shortener/1/redirect/None. Invalid entries redirect to https://www.pinterest.com/.
plu.sh 2023-05-20 https://plu.sh/vgauq Return on success:[301]. Return on error:[404]. Seems to be sequential (?) (https://plu.sh/vgauq -> https://plu.sh/vwp6u). No login required to create shortened URLs.
ppt.cc 2023-05-20 https://ppt.cc/!uCJ (short URL)

https://ppt.cc/,ZSU (text) https://ppt.cc/0bZE (image) https://ppt.cc/fTD2Ox (video)

URL shortner and text/image/video hosting, 302 redirect on success, 200 for hosted files or error. Format: [0-9A-Za-z!'(,\-;@_~]{4}; f[0-9A-Za-z]{5}; 5 character URLs were lost due to database failure; alias: xdxd.org;
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, 2016-02-10 (EST)
ps.cr 2023-05-20 https://pst.cr/AqsBL https://pst.cr/ redirects to https://postcron.com/. Valid IDs or not redirect to https://byq6z.app.goo.gl/ before redirecting to somewhere else. IDs seem to be in 5 character letters only.
ptiturl.com 2016-03-20 https://ptiturl.com/# appears to be in French; seems alive and allowing public shortening as of 14:59, 2016-03-20 (EDT)
qik.li 2015-12-12 http://qik.li/cB4Y site appears to allow public shortening as of 02:24, 2015-12-12 (EST); tried to set up a warrior job, but it kept erroring out, as of 02:13, 2017-03-21 (EDT)
qoo.ly 2017-12-29 Appears to use 5 character, lowercase letters and numbers. Valid: 301, destination in Location header. Invalid: 404, sets cookie (Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=..), plain text content. Homepage used to be an url shortener, after 2016-05-23 (according to archive.org) qoo.ly homepage is broken in its current form. *Now it may* be a social media management shortener by socialreport.com
qrco.de 2023-06-01 https://qrco.de/bdBfr7
https://qrco.de/bdgA7O
https://qrco.de/bdgAAp
Used by www.qr-code-generator.com when logged in. This is a service that comes with a trial and later is paid for, so links are constantly rotting. Some codes redirect/301, but others have their own page with links or other media such as https://qrco.de/bdgA7O and https://qrco.de/bdgAAp (created sequentially); It appears that 6-character alphanumeric case-sensitive codes are currently being generated, but shorter codes (still case sensitive) are valid and work, up to and including single-number and single-letter shortened codes. The website will never 404, instead showing a simple information page for every ungenerated, arbitrary-length code. It appears that they are generated sequentially, with new characters added as needed.
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, 2016-02-10 (EST)
qrs.ly 2023-05-22 https://qrs.ly/t8ck3ew Shortener for qrstuff.com. Appears to be 7 random alphanumeric characters. Valid URLs return 302 Found; invalid URLs return 200 OK.
qttr.at 2016-12-04 shortener for quitter.se (and possibly other GNU social instances that go by the name of quitter, such as https://quitter.no and https://quitter.is. Works as of 18:57, 2016-12-04 (EST)
qurl.com 2015-12-10 site appears to allow public shortening as of 01:03, 2015-12-10 (EST) (also runs an image sharing service)
rb.gy 2023-05-22 https://rb.gy/i8kxzd Run by Rebrandly. Valid URLs return 301 Moved Permanently; Invalid URLs return 302 Found. Like other rebrandly-run shorteners, capital letters are interchangeable with lowercase letters in the url.
r.ebay.com 2016-06-10 http://r.ebay.com/gjbfkl
http://r.ebay.com/rOhipo
http://r.ebay.com/IH3etu
http://r.ebay.com/eF1ofu
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. Every URL returns an HTTP 200 with a 1x1 pixel GIF as of 2023-06-01.
rebrand.ly 2023-05-22 https://rebrand.ly/75bbanu
https://rebrand.ly/This_IsA_Very-LongcustomArchiveteamurl50characters
A part of Rebrandly's branded url service, with a separate database being used than rb.gy. Allows URLs to be generated in numerous random ways, most having the website's name prefixed to the shortcode, although regular random URLs can still be generated. Allows custom URLs of up to 50 characters long, unlike rb.gy. Valid URLs return 301 Moved Permanently; Invalid URLs return 302 Found. Like other rebrandly-run shorteners, capital letters are interchangeable with lowercase letters in the url.
rebrandly.com 2018-02-21 Rebrandly's branded url service, separate from their public URL shortening service. Example URL: http://brand.cool/books
retcialis.com 2019-04-16 Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.
reurl.cc 2023-05-22 https://reurl.cc/1g9lD
https://reurl.cc/0z2VG6
Always serves status 200; redirects using JavaScript on success, shows error message on error. [0-9A-Za-z]{5,6}, case sensitive.
ristek.link 2023-05-26 https://ristek.link/URLTeam Indonesian shortener from Ristek Fasilkom UI. 307 on success and fail, but /404 on fail. Only does custom links. Case sensitive.
rlu.ru 2016-05-15 seems alive as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (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, 2016-05-15 (EDT))
rroll.to 2021-11-15 On viewing, 50/50 randomizes whether to display the requested URL or send viewer to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ. Returns 302 for either requested URL or rickroll video; returns 404 for invallid.
s.maro.xyz 2018-07-12 Returns 302 with the destination in the Location header for valid IDs, 404 otherwise; IDs are made of 7 random characters from the a-zA-Z0-9 range. Source code; example: https://s.maro.xyz/qwemTVx
s2r.co 2016-07-13 Seems alive
safe.mn 2016-04-03 Claims to provide archive of shortened URLs at safe.mn/static/safemn.zip ; seems alive as of 01:12, 2016-04-03 (EDT)
seomafia.net 2023-09-06 http://seomafia.net/aN5V Seems alive; example URL created at 02:00, 2016-07-14 (EDT): http://seomafia.net/aN5V . Show preview on success, 301 to homepage on error.
shorl.com 2023-05-22 https://shorl.com/tisikestibahu
https://shorl.com/stugipenefife
Will need custom code to accommodate "Koremutake", an alphabet of 128 phonetically unique phonemes, which is documented here and at http://shorl.com/koremutake.php. Random six-phoneme code (meaning there are 128⁶ = 4.4 trillion combinations), valid: 200 (no Location header), invalid: 404, https://shorl[.]com/[a-z]{13} (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT); verified 2017-10-09 15:30 UTC)
shorte.st 2016-09-17 sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape
shortlink.store 2023-06-01 https://shortlink.store/0KjBjKKq3r Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9-_]{10}. 10 character letters long only. Not squential. Invalid entries give 404s.
shorturl.at 2023-05-22 https://shorturl.at/gmvY2 random 5 char/digit; always 302, on valid redirects to site, on invalid to main website (https://www.shorturl.at/)
shorturl.com 2023-05-22 https://alturl.com/j5vmv Random, Valid: 302 (Location header correct), Invalid: 200, https://alturl[.]com/[a-z0-9]{5}
shorturl.im 2016-10-07 Probably owned by the same people as shrink.im, based on the reused graphics / design
shrink.im 2016-10-07 Probably owned by the same people as shorturl.im, based on the reused graphics / design
sh.st 2021-1-14 Alternative domain name for shorte.st, and one letter away from what it should be. Displays ads before redirection. Fails to redirect with Javascript disabled.
skimmth.is 2023-01-11 https://skimmth.is/3sVt3ss
https://skimmth.is/3DNT6XH
https://skimmth.is/3zOqzQA
Return on success:[301]; destination in Location header. Return on error:[404]. Examples: [2], [3], [4]; see others in their weekday newsletter [5]. They seem non-sequential. No obvious public way to create a new shortened URL.
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
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.
solsn.se 2022-10-11 http://solsn.se/ redirects to https://www.solesense.com/, this also occurs on invalid entries. 6 character letters long only. Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9]{6}. Not squential. Case-insensitive. Example: https://solsn.se/8mGwjp
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. Every shortURL returns HTTP 404 as of 2023-06-01, but the homepage is still alive.
surl.co.uk 2016-09-17 Many shortening options.
surl.dk 2018-05-20 Example: http://surl.dk/hbx/. Appears sequential using [a-z0-9]+. Returns 302 for all queries. Sets "Location:" to destinaion URL for valid short codes, and to "/" for invalid codes. Currently has 22413 URLs generated.
s.wikicharlie.cl 2024-10-20 Contains 12900+ sequential incremental URLs (0-9a-zA-Z) and returns HTTP 302 with "Location" header for all queries, but "Location: -1" for invalid ones. Has been alive since 2015-20-02. Dumped urls_wikicharlie_shortener_2023-02-01 in csv and beacon and at s.wikicharlie.cl_20230203 as WARC. There are csv dumps available on the same page.
t1p.de / ogy.de / 0cn.de / kurzelinks.de 2023-06-01 http://t1p.de/ggl Non-sequential, custom URLs possible; Valid returns HTTP 302 with Location set; Invalid returns HTTP 404 error page.
tiny.cc 2023-06-22 http://tiny.cc/3t98vz Appears non-incremental and supports custom URL "hashes" up to a limit of 25 characters (don't listen to the word "hashes"; the URLs are random). Non-custom URLs are 6 characters. Alive as of 11:17, 2021-04-25 (EST)). Returns 301 on both success and error. On Tinycc.com (their professional website) they say they shorten over 20 million links per month. Safe to say this is a large site!
t.ly 2023-05-22 https://t.ly/He4A https://t.ly/u8XI2 https://t.ly/40v_W Appears non-incremental. 301 on success, 404 for error or expired links. Stats are still available after expiration: https://t.ly/He4A+
to.ly / go.ly 2023-06-22 https://go.ly/vxXmg
https://to.ly/vxXmg
Gives 301 on success and 200 on error. May be protected by cloudflare. Two domains can share the same short URL pointing the same real URL.
trib.al (gizmo.do / clckhl.co) 2023-06-01 http://trib.al/600YOWx
http://trib.al/TqoIUv3
http://trib.al/CeyQgiY
http://trib.al/pYINp17
Does not appear to allow public creation of new short-URLs; owned by SocialFlow; appears to be random: [a-zA-Z0-9]{7}. Valid returns 301, invalid returns 404 (GET/HEAD)
ujeb.se 2023-05-22 http://ujeb.se/L4nFx
http://ujeb.se/hj9gr
http://ujeb.se/archiveteam
Appears non-incremental, can set a custom ID optionally. Always returns 301 as long as the ID is longer than 2 characters and isn't a static page link like http://ujeb.se/faq; if the ID is invalid, the Location header points to http://ujeb.se/.
url.az 2016-04-29 Pays for URLs shortened through it (presumably with ads, thereby likely more difficult to scrape) as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
url.ie 2023-06-01 http://url.ie/1q8b
https://url.ie/1rbz7
Returns 302 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 404 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace has reached 5 characters.
url.zip 2023-09-01 https://url.zip/3d37d3f
https://url.zip/2e17820
https://url.zip/7226932
Random lowercase URL, Valid: 308/307, Invalid: 308/307 as it will redirect to url.zip.
urly.fi 2023-06-01 https://urly.fi/1
https://urly.fi/2NRG
https://urly.fi/2NRH
Allows public to create short URLs. URLs are sequentially numbered [a-zA-Z0-9]+. Currently up to four characters. Valid returns 301 with Location header. Invalid shortcode returns a 302 with location: https://urly.fi/. The front page is in Finnish and has statistics: 747713 shortened URLs in total, 173 created within 24 hours, 98 of which were created today. Every link has a corresponsing info page with creation date and number of visitors publicly readable, e.g. https://urly.fi/info/1.
urx2.nu 2024-03-07 https://urx2.nu/VTiG Unable to create a new link.
ux9.de 2023-05-22 https://ux9.de/pEyL Return on success:[200]. Return on error:[200] (Redirect to main page). Seems to be non-sequential. No Login required to create shortened URLs.
urx2.nu 2023-08-20 http://urx.blue/SxcI Success or failure returns 301.

If it fails, you will be redirected to http://urx.morimo.info/sorry.php

vk.cc 2023-06-22 http://vk.cc/2V1mh5 no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST))
vqr.mx 2023-06-22 http://vqr.mx/DVOCP Returns 302 for successful and not successful. Allows creation of shorteners.
vurl.com 2023-06-01 https://vurl.com/Vv83O Returns 200 for success and error. You have to press a button to be redirected.
vzturl.com 2023-06-01 http://vzturl.com/apa83
http://vzturl.com/bjh28
http://vzturl.com/bqi37
Allow public shortening. Incremental.
waa.ai 2023-06-22 https://waa.ai/Osrx
https://waa.ai/Tr0R
https://waa.ai/Tr0N (regular)
https://waa.ai/Tr0z/ddef60 (unguessable)
Requires a free account to shorten URLs. Both valid and invalid URLs return 302 with the destination in the Location header; invalid URLs redirect to an error page. There is the option to create custom and "unguessable" short URLs. URLs appear partially sequential but the sequence seems to jump around.
www3.to (www1.to/www2.to) 2023-06-22 http://www1.to/maruten2
http://www3.to/mocone
Japanese URL shortener managed by SmarTrans. Actual responses vary on a case-by-case basis. http://www3.to/halu and http://www3.to/mugiyainfo give a status code of 200 with a meta tag indicating its destination. http://www3.to/rci will serve a 302. http://www1.to/maruten2 and http://www3.to/mocone serve actual web content and http://www2.to/sakuraike2000/ and http://www2.to/b-s/ serve a 200 with a message saying they expired. Only www3.to works; others are offline.
wn.nr 2022-10-09 http://wn.nr/2AK5q
https://wn.nr/2XvGyv
Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9]{5,6}. 5 or 6 character letters long. Not sequential. Case-sensitive. First character letter starts with only a 2. Invalid entries give 404s. Most entries tend to redirect to https://gleam.io/ links.
wu.to 2023-06-01 http://wu.to/5Iqg1n Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9]{6}. 6 character letters long only. Not sequential. Case-sensitive. First character letter starts with either 0, 1, or 2; unsure if goes up to 9. Invalid entries redirect back to https://wu.to/ while http://wu.to/5Iqg1n+ (with the plus sign at the end of the URL) gives a login wall.
w.wiki 2023-06-01 https://w.wiki/JnJ
https://w.wiki/JnK
Allows creation of new shortlinks to the following domains: *.wikipedia.org, *.wiktionary.org, *.wikibooks.org, *.wikinews.org, *.wikiquote.org, *.wikisource.org, *.wikiversity.org, *.wikivoyage.org, *.wikimedia.org, *.wikidata.org, and *.mediawiki.org. Appears sequential. curl -I returns 301; destination in Location header. Invalid returns 404 with no location.

Dump of shortlinks is available on https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/shorturls/ and is updated weekly.

xar.ph 2023-06-22 http://xar.ph/ZngDrS bit.ly alias, no new entries since 2016-04.
xfru.it 2023-06-01 http://www.xfru.it/wuAnrT
http://www.xfru.it/x8BxzH
http://www.xfru.it/ redirects to https://www.wmaker.net/. Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9]{6}. 6 character letters long only.
xurl.es 2023-06-01 https://xurl.es/2463a
https://xurl.es/ix27p
Allows creation of new shortlinks, currently 5 characters (lowercase + digits), appears to be random. Allows converting a shortlink into a custom link. Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 302 with location: https://xurl.es for both GET and HEAD: https://xurl.es/7dnv0.
x.gd 2024-02-12 https://x.gd/12M8m
y0.hu 2023-06-22 http://y0.hu/OGu
yf-fam.co 2019-04-04
zi.ma 2023-06-22 http://zi.ma/iaasc4 DNS didn't resolve at one point, but seems alive (although it's not totally clear it offers url shortening) as of 02:50, 2016-05-14 (EDT) Appears to combine multiple URLs into one short URL (see linkbun.ch)
zsr.link 2023-11-22 https://zsr.link/9owMQ Allows creation of new URLs, either 5 characters (random) or custom up to 20 characters. Response for a valid link is 302 with destination in location header. Response for an invalid link is 404. This was created in 2023-11 after the death of bombch.us, which was used in the Zelda speedrunning community.
сёр.рф 2019-04-07 0-9а-яА-Я-_ link deduplication, case sensitive, 200 on not found, 200 on found - redirect via JS location. link are random, user-specified links are min=9 in length
чоч.рф 2019-04-07 0-9а-яА-Я 3-chars sequential
Shortener Last checked Example URL Notes

Probably Dead or Broken

(before moving to URLTeam/Dead, please double check and retain useful information)

Shortener Last checked Example URL Notes
kek.gg 2023-05-20 https://kek.gg/u/LXcZ
https://kek.gg/u/5Xh4
https://kek.gg/u/-kCG
https://kek.gg/u/nL_V
https://kek.gg/u/Yhs_
also an image host; currently generates non-sequential, four-character codes with at least the char set [a-zA-Z0-9-_]; always serves status 200; redirects using JavaScript but also offers a direct link in HTML. Dead as of 2023-09-06.
qqt.ir 2017-08-21 http://qqt.ir/u4qer Alias of 1o2.ir; simply 301 redirects all URLs (including invalid shortcodes) to 1o2.ir. Dead between 2019 and 2020 and now redirects to https://kikroleplay.com/.
shadyurl.com 2016-04-12 Complex, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 301 (Empty location), ex.: http://www.5z8.info/trojan_sunz http://www.5z8.info/how-to-stop-immigration-for-good.pdf_w7g7no_yourdick (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
slink.co 2019-05-27 Return on success:[301]. Return on error:[301] (Redirect back to main page). Seems to be non-sequential. No login required to create shortened URLs. Example: http://slink.co/332b7. Dead as of 2023-06-01.
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, 2016-04-12 (EDT)). Always redirects to https://glpi.campobom.rs.gov.br/vendor/bandar-judi-bola/{shortcode} as of 2023-09-06.
smurl.name 2016-04-12 60 seconds ads, Random, ex.: http://smurl.name/yMuzr. Dead as of 2023-06-01.
soa.li / soc.li 2016-09-17 Gigya inc. ; may be dead, page says: "The remote name could not be resolved: 'li'"
soo.gd 2016-07-13 Seems alive; has alarming smiley face with thumbs up image. Is not incremental. Dead as of 2023-06-01.
tinyarrows.com (ta.gd/ri.ms/➡.ws/➨.ws/➯.ws/➔.ws/➞.ws/➽.ws/➹.ws/✩.ws/✿.ws/❥.ws/›.ws/⌘.ws/‽.ws/☁.ws) 2019-04-02 Seems dead as of 2019. Appears non-incremental: uses user-defined words for URLs (e.g. http://➡.ws/URLTEAM)
urlz.fr 2024-09-22 http://urlz.fr/q9Q8 URL redirection still works, homepage still up, but trying to use the site to shorten URLS will end up on a blank a [age (Safari) or an error message (Chrome)
vu.fr 2024-09-22 http://vu.fr/SGiNf URL redirection still works, but homepage shows a 'BRB. We are currently offline for maintenance.' message
wapurl.co.uk 2016-09-18 Claims to be soon restricting their API to registered users. Dead as of 2023-06-01.
y2u.be 2023-06-22 https://y2u.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ 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). Dead as of 2023-06-01.
Shortener Last checked Example URL Notes

"Official" shorteners

This section lists shorteners specific for certain companies or services. Most of the time, these are limited to the relevant platforms, and it's often not possible to manually create shortlinks.

Shortener Last checked Example URL Notes
4nn.cx Anime News Network
a.ll.st 2023-06-01 (IA list)
http://a.ll.st/0F6eQJ
http://a.ll.st/57PVYZ
http://a.ll.st/Facebook
http://a.ll.st/PurplePurseCharm
Allstate
air.asia https://air.asia/M9Y3s
https://air.asia/ffYWb
https://air.asia/mGKZu
https://air.asia/cbwA8
https://air.asia/MgLKu
https://air.asia/7oTK1
https://air.asia/1sW9b
AirAsia
aka.ms https://aka.ms/wsldocs
http://aka.ms/free
http://aka.ms/MIMWAL
http://aka.ms/MIMWAL/Releases
Internal shortener for Microsoft - There is a log in page at https://aka.ms, though only employee Microsoft accounts appear to be allowed access
ask.fm/a http://ask.fm/a/40k05kgp ASKfm - Seems non-incremental; appears to no longer exist as of 2017-08-21 13:30 UTC, returning 404. Example: http://ask.fm/a/40k05kgp -> http://ask.fm/Q7Niki/answer/42128504404
bizj.us The Business Journals
bln.gs http://bln.gs/b/28fss0
http://bln.gs/b/1
Blingee
bsa.ly 2016-01-02 Private shortener for BuySellAds. Dead as of 2023-06-01.
CokeURL.com https://cokeurl.com/3yuz9
https://cokeurl.com/vs5s
https://cokeurl.com/theaterseat
Coca-Cola
cp2077.ly 2024-01-26 http://cp2077.ly/AnimeAwards2023 Cyberpunk 2077
ctv.news CTV News (Canada)
dis.gd 2024-01-26 http://dis.gd/contact Discord
di.sn 2023-06-01 http://di.sn/rht
http://di.sn/6015ByMqD
http://di.sn/6006IwjY
http://di.sn/a05C
Disney - Appears to have a few different schemes. 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. Implemented by Sprinklr.
disq.us 2023-06-01 http://disq.us/t/291ju7o Disqus
eepurl.com 2023-06-01 http://eepurl.com/hP3qj9 Allowed public shortening for a while; only allows use by MailChimp customers since October 2009.
fav.me 2023-06-01 http://fav.me/d31sfml DeviantArt - Appears to be in heavy use on DeviantArt itself and on Twitter (probably elsewhere). Format is d[a-z0-9]{1,6} and represents the deviation's ID number in base 36. 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.
fb.me 2023-06-01 https://fb.me/1SbbHpZf3
https://fb.me/ArchiveTeam
Facebook
flic.kr Flickr
fnd.us Fundrazr.com
forms.gle Google Forms
g.co Google (used for Google products and services)
getpocket.com/s/ Pocket
ggbm.at GeoGebra
git.io 2023-06-01 https://git.io/xYTU
https://git.io/vtrEf
https://git.io/bQ6v7Q
https://git.io/ghclone
GitHub only URLs - Public form at https://git.io/, only accepts github.com URLs. URLs appear to be sequential for some operations and also has user-specified vanity codes. Built with Guillotine, documented in release blog post. Valid = 302, invalid = 404.
glo.bo 2023-08-05 https://glo.bo/miraday
https://glo.bo/7bjjkqu
Grupo Globo, there is currently no way to create urls, Valid = 302, Invalid = 302 as it redirects to globo.com, website does not share number of urls created.
go.code42.com http://go.code42.com/o03zP00lB00oqO0uRUMbJM0
http://go.code42.com/CM700s0hM0GO0Pbt3i02U0i
Internal shortener of Code42, the company behind CrashPlan. Redirects using JavaScript.
goo.gl Google
goo.gle Google
gsfn.us 2017-10-08 http://gsfn.us/t/2aoq7
http://gsfn.us/t/51hin
Get Satisfaction - [0-9a-z]+, appears sequential, highest ID around 5???? as of 2017-10-08. Simply redirected to getsatisfaction.com, which does the actual redirect. Dead since 2020-06-05.
gty.im 2023-06-01 http://gty.im/488068439 Getty Images - Links by editorial number
gyo.tc 2023-06-01 http://gyo.tc/a0
http://gyo.tc/1KMbs
Megalodon.jp - Short URLs for archived pages, IDs appear sequential, most likely matching [a-zA-Z0-9]+, some IDs like a or aa appear to be missing, though. (a0, b, ab, aA or aaa work fine.) Always returns 302, but if the ID is invalid, the Location header starts with https://megalodon.jp/?url=http%3A%2F%2Frequested_id instead of https://megalodon.jp/[date]/[url].
hrts.me 2017-08-21 http://hrts.me/J2o9h University of Hertfordshire. Short codes seem to match [a-zA-Z0-9]{5}. No HEAD support; 301 + Location header on success, 404 on error. Mainly used on https://twitter.com/UniofHerts. Dead as of 2023-06-01.
hub.me http://hub.me/alvyn
http://hub.me/r1cxN
HubPages - Two types of short URLs, starting with either "a" (for "article"?) or "r" (for "replies"?). The shortcode afterwards is then a base62-encoded ID (0-9a-zA-Z). Highest IDs as of 2017-10-09 near the example links.
igg.me 2023-06-01 http://igg.me/at/defendbitcoinmagazine
http://igg.me/at/1NaE6yoZIaY
Indiegogo - Most seem to use chosen names.
ipb.link 2023-06-01 https://ipb.link/suaraaspirasivokasi Institut Pertanian Bogor, a university in Indonesia.
its.id 2023-06-01 https://its.id/TEEP2023 Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, a university in Indonesia.
kas.pr 2023-06-01 https://kas.pr/x4Hq
https://kas.pr/Hga7
https://kas.pr/A9Rp
Kaspersky Lab - Requires login; 302 redirect/404 error on GET, does not support HEAD
kku.world 2023-06-01 https://kku.world/uyyb1
https://kku.world/sac2
https://kku.world/p7d1c
https://kku.world/pbpcd
https://kku.world/knpm6
https://kku.world/zlhum
https://kku.world/ill
https://kku.world/fm04
https://kku.world/quotainterview63
https://kku.world/payment
https://kku.world/sd-healthsci
Khon Kaen University, Thailand
lmg.gg 2024-01-26 https://lmg.gg/okJWF Linus Media Group (Linus Tech Tips)
lnkd.in LinkedIn
maps.app.goo.gl 2024-01-26 https://maps.app.goo.gl/wxqeWFcN49GNV9ob9 Google Maps
mfi.re https://mfi.re/software/
https://mfi.re/policy_violation/intellectual_property.php
MediaFire - Seems to just extend mfi.re into www.mediafire.com, except https://mfi.re/robots.txt.
mir.cr Mirror Creator
mod.lk 2023-08-25 https://mod.lk/195ZW
https://mod.lk/0XgJ5
Editora Moderna, private url shortner, Valid: 301, Invalid: 200.
mply.io 2024-08-29 Monopoly Go Shortlink, Valid: 301, Invalid: 404
msft.it Microsoft (or maybe something called "Sprinklr"?)
mysp.ac Myspace
nico.ms 2024-08-11 https://nico.ms/sm37198038
https://nico.ms/td88093
Niconico. Works similarly to youtu.be.
off365.ms Office 365 - Dead as of 2023-06-01.
opr.as 2024-01-26 https://opr.as/a
https://opr.as/share
Opera
opr.news 2024-01-26 http://opr.news/402764ad240126en_us
http://opr.news/401f01b1240125fr_ci
Opera News, link includes locale
pixiv.me 2023-06-01 https://pixiv.me/shapoco Short URLs for user profiles, uses pixiv usernames, i.e. for a user named shapoco, the short URL is https://pixiv.me/shapoco. Returns 301 if the user exists, 404 otherwise.
pixiv.net 2023-06-01 https://pixiv.net/i/69467027
https://pixiv.net/u/24431887
/i/:id for short image URLs, /u/:id for short user URLs. If the given ID isn't in the [0-9]+ range, the redirect on https://www.pixiv.net/[type]/[id] returns 404, otherwise it returns 301. Invalid IDs still redirect fine as long as they're in the [0-9]+ range; for user pages the resulting page is returned with 200 regardless of whether the user actually exists, for illustration pages the possible codes are 200/404/400 for valid/non-extant/invalid IDs, respectively. Example of 404: https://pixiv.net/i/2442, example of 400: https://pixiv.net/i/24422222222222
pocket.co Pocket
post.ly 2013-06-20 http://post.ly/1D2 Posterous - Dead since July 2013.
pptv36.tv / pptv36.news 2023-09-06 http://pptv36.tv/rkG
http://pptv36.tv/vDo
http://pptv36.news/B4u
http://pptv36.news/BnG
PPTV HD 36, Thailand
propub.li 2024-08-11 https://propub.li/3WE9AMv
https://propub.li/4cBfYcp
ProPublica
ptix.at 2023-06-01 http://ptix.at/IlYpvn Peatix - Uses character letters [A-Za-z0-9]{6}. 6 character letters long only. Case-sensitive. Invalid entries give 404s.
qr.ae Quora
redd.it 2024-01-26 https://redd.it/mkogv0 Reddit i.redd.it is used for images and v.redd.it is used for videos
ref.fm 2023-06-01 https://ref.fm/u14223513 Fastmail referrals
rov.io 2024-01-26 https://rov.io/ABReloaded Rovio Entertainment Corporation
rsg.ms Rockstar Games
skfb.ly 2023-06-01 http://skfb.ly/mki3fe1d0
https://skfb.ly/GXzZ
https://skfb.ly/6nCrW
Sketchfab - Maps to https://sketchfab.com/s/CODE, which performs the actual redirect. Some very old links appear to use 9-char lower-case alphanumeric codes. In 2017-02, four-char codes of [0-9a-zA-Z] were exhausted, after which they apparently switched to five-char codes (same charset) starting around 6????.
sqap.pt 2023-06-01 https://sqap.pt/u/BKSlJeqs Squarespace appointments
t.co 2023-06-01 https://t.co/xZ6UzqXC67 Twitter
tdrt.io 2023-06-01 https://tdrt.io/hXw Techdirt
thd.co 2024-11-13 https://thd.co/ The Home Depot - Used for delivery notifications, tracking, and order surveys. Appears to have [0-9a-z]{7}. 301 on valid entry, 302 on invalid to The Home Depot website -> https://homedepot.com
tl.gd 2023-06-01 http://tl.gd/79aumf
http://tl.gd/n_1sn6j78
TwitLonger - Maybe Sequential, site specific, maps directly to www.twitlonger.com - Examples: http://tl.gd/79aumf -> http://www.twitlonger.com/show/79aumf, http://tl.gd/n_1sn6j78 -> http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sn6j78
tmblr.co 2023-06-01 https://tmblr.co/Z4fZpx1gfu_mU
https://tmblr.co/ZIKCSm1uGRMbv
https://tmblr.co/ZAvEqsfi4_rO
https://tmblr.co/Zqar4t1x8GPpN
https://tmblr.co/ZJ8Wby1L9QRac
Tumblr - HEAD and GET supported; 301 on success, 404 on error. The shortcodes are too long for terroroftinytown to handle.
tmi.me 2016-04-12 http://tmi.me/43vkS
http://tmi.me/1fdmrO
UberSocial - Message shortener (for Twitter) rather than URL shortener. Likely sequential. See first example link for some more info. Dead as of 2023-06-01.
tw.appstore.com 2023-06-01 http://tw.appstore.com/R58 Apple App Store
ubi.li 2024-02-05 https://ubi.li/QK6n5 Ubisoft
ugm.id 2023-06-01 http://ugm.id/q1
http://ugm.id/LiveTalkshowBedahProgram
Universitas Gadjah Mada, a university in Indonesia.
ui.id 2023-06-01 http://ui.id/youtube
http://ui.id/uimobile
Universitas Indonesia, a university in Indonesia. Based on the YOURLS software.
unisg.link 2023-06-01 https://unisg.link/0308ca
https://unisg.link/schools
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Seems to have [0-9a-z]{3}, [0-9a-f]{5} and [0-9a-f]{6} (plus custom codes that can't be enumerated). Run by Rebrandly.
uoft.me 2023-06-01 https://uoft.me/4es
https://uoft.me/familyvolleyballday
University of Toronto, Canada. Based on the YOURLS software.
upl.nu 2023-06-01 http://upl.nu/dokumentarkiv
http://upl.nu/beyond17
Ung Pirat (Youth Pirate Party, Sweden) - 301 on success, 302 to http://ungpirat.se/om-oss/om-hemsidan/uplnu/ on error.
ushare.education 2023-06-22 http://ushare.education/rsl/e4aa4a17 The resource-sharing website for Scottish educational resources (run in partnership with the Scottish Qualifications Authority). Not very active, or well known by students / teachers. Resources are shared by a URL, which is shortened. Resources also include a description and rating. All resources can be viewed through the "Search Resources" page, although this likely requires visiting all of the 101 pages in the search results. Each page holds roughly 10 results, so there is probably only around 1000 total URLs, with only a handful being added daily. URLs take the form: http://ushare.education/rsl/<ID>, with ID being an arbitrary non-user-definable string. However the URL shortener seems to have been poorly designed, and http://ushare.education/rsl/null is listed as a link to a resource, yet it does not work. Other links work, and it is currently unknown how many links suffer from this problem - perhaps there is only one. The links on the website are in fact full links to the original resources. This means that it is not necessary even to visit the links to determine their destination - simply parsing the href attribute of the link's tag will do.
vevo.ly 2024-01-26 https://vevo.ly/4M9Ytk Vevo
vftr.co 2023-06-22 http://vftr.co/formaindirimi Vodafone Turkey. Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.
vgn.am 2023-06-22 http://vgn.am/6012B1xIp
http://vgn.am/6015BZvwd
http://vgn.am/6189BHrg5
Seems to be official shortener for Virgin Airlines; implemented by Sprinklr.
wh.gov 2017-08-21 https://wh.gov/i3lXR White House - Just extends wh.gov into www.whitehouse.gov. 3-5 character URLs were dead since January 2017.
wp.me 2023-06-01 http://wp.me/f2B5
http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten
https://wp.me/a92Te1-q
Wordpress.com - HEAD; 301 on success, 404 on error. The shortcodes can have two different formats.
  • The simple format encodes a blog's "siteID" in base62 (0-9a-zA-Z).
  • The more complex one is used for specific pages on a blog and matches ^https?://wp\.me/(?P<type>[sPpa])(?P<blogID>[0-9a-zA-Z]+)-(?P<identifier>.+)$; the types stand for "slug", "page", "post", and "attachment", respectively. For "slug", the identifier is a custom-chosen name. "Page", "post", and "attachment" types map to the page_id, p, and attachment_id URL parameters, respectively (e.g. https://wp.me/Pf2B5-1 -> http://en.blog.wordpress.com/?page_id=1), which then redirect to the relevant page or return a 404.
ya.cc 2023-06-01 https://ya.cc/ZZZE Yandex
youtu.be 2023-06-01 https://youtu.be/fYI_XtT7sgQ YouTube
yt.be 2023-06-01 https://yt.be/blbl
https://yt.be/xRfgp
https://yt.be/s5Qyb
https://yt.be/YTNextUp19
https://yt.be/help/PS6e
Marketing(?) shortener of YouTube
Shortener Last checked Example URL Notes

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. (Bit.ly IPs (as of 2016-10-18): 67.199.248.{10,11,12,13} see Bitly Support) In rare occasions such as with puri.na the shortcodes will resolve different though the puri.na example is the only example from a realistic scraping point of view so far. See URLTeam/unsorted for more untested aliases.

  • 0-60.in
  • 030mag.de
  • 1.azdhs.gov
  • 1.usa.gov - USA Government (dead as of 2021-04-03, superseded by go.usa.gov)
  • 20ss.nyc
  • 360myte.ch - https://www.mytech360.com/
  • 4sq.com - Foursquare
  • 511t.ac
  • 6.wate.com
  • 7gee.se
  • 8legs.co - https://www.8legs.com/
  • 9l7gf7x5o9v.xyz - https://www.skysports.com/
  • abcn.ws - ABC News (examples: https://abcn.ws/1aOoijH https://abcn.ws/okiWbi)
  • accntu.re
  • actf.tv
  • adobe.ly
  • adweek.it
  • aje.me - Aljazeera
  • alme.re
  • amzn.to - Amazon
  • apple.co
  • arcg.is
  • arfo.sk
  • atfp.co - Foreign Policy (domain for sale as of 2021-04-03)
  • audi.us
  • autism.link
  • azc.cc
  • bbc.in - BBC
  • bbybgrl.com (dead as of 2021-04-03)
  • beta.works
  • binged.it - Bing (bonus points for being longer than bing.com)
  • bitly.com
  • bitly.is
  • bitlymail.com
  • blizz.ly - Blizzard, some matches up (the generated ones), but there are a few which differ from their bit.ly/ counterpart, the direct (with meaningful words) like http://blizz.ly/BuyOverwatch (Has Shortcodes different to standard bit.ly)
  • bloom.bg - Bloomberg
  • bo.st - boston.com
  • bravo.ly
  • bzfd.it - Buzzfeed
  • cabel.as
  • canva.link
  • carrot.cr - Carrot Creative
  • cb.com - Career Builder
  • chfstps.co - ChefSteps - last accessed on 2019-07-18 - 22:20 UTC
  • chzb.gr - Cheezeburger
  • comca.st
  • cnet.co - CNET
  • cnnmon.ie - CNN Money
  • conta.cc - Constant Contact Inc.
  • corb.is - Corbis Images
  • cot.ag
  • crks.me - as of 03:05, 2016-08-19 (EDT)
  • curbed.cc - Curbed.com
  • d-mk.co
  • don8blood.com (Has Shortcodes different to standard bit.ly)
  • econ.st - The Economist
  • emarketee.rs - Emarketeers
  • engri.sh - Engrish.com
  • eonli.ne - E! Online
  • es.pn - ESPN
  • etsy.me - Esty
  • fave.co -
  • feedly.com/k/ - redirect, see below for their own
  • fltsim.me
  • fotovs.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.
  • got.cr - Crunchyroll
  • gph.is - giphy.com gives 301 on Successful Redirect to Gif. Gives 302 on Bad short url and redirects to Giphy.com. Currently gives a 7 character alphanumeric shortcode. Unsure if 6 character or less was used.
  • grd.to - The Grid TO
  • hp.care - Hewlett Packard (HP)
  • hrkey.co
  • hsgk.in
  • hub.am - HubSpot
  • huff.to - Huffington Post
  • idle-empi.re
  • ift.tt - IFTTT
  • IMDB.to
  • j.mp - bit.ly[2]
  • jlne.ws
  • jrnl.to - thejournal.ie
  • kck.st - Kickstarter
  • kore.us
  • krg.bz
  • lat.ms - Los Angeles Times
  • laurc.ro
  • lego.build
  • lemde.fr -- alive as of 01:10, 2016-02-10 (EST)
  • lft.to - Lyft
  • m.ttmask.com
  • marsdd.it - MaRS Discovery District
  • mbist.ro - MediaBistro
  • mojo.ly - Mother Jones
  • mttr.io
  • myepg.online
  • nydn.us - New York Daily News
  • nyti.ms - The New York Times
  • oculta.bit.ly
  • on.belk.com - example URL: https://on.belk.com/2Ln8a6h
  • on.fb.me - Facebook
  • on.ziggo.nl - Ziggo, dutch ISP
  • on.natgeo.com
  • on.rare.us - Rare (rare.us)
  • on.si.com
  • playst.cc - PlayStation Competition Center
  • play.st - PlayStation
  • pnsne.ws
  • qr.cm
  • red.ht - Red Hat
  • redsto.ne - Minecraft, replaced by aka.ms, last link found https://redsto.ne/Enderwood on this tweet
  • reut.rs - Reuters
  • rma.reviews - Still operational as of 2022-10-11. URL redirects are generally https://www.ratemyagent.com/ Powered by https://short.io/. 12 character letters long only. Example: https://rma.reviews/qAtA76r4L9CH
  • sdut.us - The San Diego Union-Tribune
  • snd.sc - Soundcloud
  • spoti.fi - Spotify (Has Shortcodes different to standard bit.ly)
  • stanford.io - Stanford University (Has Shortcodes different to standard bit.ly)
  • stnfy.com
  • supr.cl - Supercell
  • Tcrn.ch - Tech Crunch
  • theatln.tc - The Atlantic
  • ti.me - Time Magazine
  • tidd.ly
  • usat.ly - USA TODAY
  • vstphl.ly - Visit Philly (Has Shortcodes different to standard bit.ly)
  • wapo.st - Washington Post (ex: http://wapo.st/2bhQGBv ) alive as of 01:11, 2016-10-14 (EDT) (Has Shortcodes different to standard bit.ly)
  • wgrd.tech
  • whrt.it - We Heart It (weheartit.com); shortener domain does not resolve as of 2017-09-08 00:25 UTC, but the main site is still online
  • wttw.me
  • www.bitly.com
  • xar.ph
  • yhoo.it
  • zmb.me

B.link aliases

  • visit.news - Becomes a blog as of 2023-09-06.

Dead or Broken

  • 1click.im - 404 as of 2019-04-18
  • 1dl.us - Displays a static image of Element 120 Unobtanium
  • 1drv.ms - 404 as of 2018-12-31
  • 1link.in - Website dead
  • 1url.com - redirects to http://www.weirdlyodd.com/ as of 2019-04-19
  • 1y.lt - For Sale as of 2018-12-27
  • 2big.at - Redirects to http://www.2big.at/ which is now a shoe shop as of 2019-04-19
  • 2su.de - domain for sale as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • 2tag.nl - generated QR codes for the short URLs for use on social media; domain sold sometime between 2016-06-19 and 2016-08-02; old links broken as of 2017-08-21
  • 301.to - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • 301url.com - DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN as of 2019-04-18
  • 307.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • 41z.com - Unrelated website as of 2019-05-29 - 04:40 UTC
  • 4ks.net - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • 4ms.me - redirects to twoo.com as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • 4zip.in - For sale as of 21:05, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • 6url.com - HTML redirect, Error 500 ; Windows IIS blank page as of 02:13, 2015-12-26 (EST)
  • 7rz.de -- "Under Construction" page as of 02:13, 2015-12-26 (EST)
  • 7vd.cn -- Server not responding as of 04:04, 2016-01-01 (EST) ; was Baidu Short URL service. Example: http://7vd.cn/rjtS
  • 9en.us - Hijacked as of 2023-05-16. appears to charge for creating short URLs; called a scam on various websites; ad-heavy with obfuscated JavaScript; seems alive as of 2017-08-21 19:30 UTC. Example: http://9en.us/gjde
  • a.gd - redirects to eg.gg which is a (somewhat entertaining) parking page as of 02:13, 2015-12-26 (EST)
  • a.nF - seems to allow public shortening; has list of recent short URLs, and totals (9279 total); appears alive as 02:12, 2015-12-26 (EST) ; server not responding as of 23:38, 2016-02-26 (EST)
  • a2n.eu - For Sale as of 2018-12-28
  • aa.cx - Redirects to a non-English VPS site as of 00:58, 2016-06-15 (EDT)
  • abcurl.net - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • abra.me - server down as of 21:52, 2015-11-21 (EST)
  • ad.ag - White screen as of 2018-12-31
  • ad.vu - mirror of adjix.com, application not found; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • ad4.us - For sale as of 21:05, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • adcraft.co - parking page as of 19:43, 2016-01-09 (EST)
  • adcrun.ch - parking page as of 18:06, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • adfro.gs - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • adlock.in - Redirect Garbage as of 2019-01-04
  • adnld.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • adshor.tk - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • adspl.us - parking page as of 21:05, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • adzip.us - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • aff.sc - Dead as of 2022-05-07 (UTC)
  • afx.cc - Just the letters "afx" in a giant, bright green font as of 02:13, 2015-12-26 (EST)
  • ah.pe (adhy.pe) - Domain parking page as of 2023-05-16. No login required to create URL's. Creates URL's sequentially. Returns 200 for a existing URL and 302 for a non-existing one. The successful 200 is a redirect to a captcha. Example: http://ah.pe/bpSD
  • aka.gr -- "This account has been suspended" as of 03:57, 2016-01-01 (EST) It was a Greek url shortener, written by Konstantinos Botonakis, with sponsored ads. Ex: http://aka.gr/bit
  • ar.gy - GitHub holding page as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (EST)
  • arm.in - domain for sale as of 21:44, 2015-11-21 (EST)
  • arst.ch - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • articleshrine.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • asso.in - seems dead (parking page?) as of 2017-08-21 21:20 UTC
  • at.cmt.com - No response as of 2023-05-16. Country Music Television - Appears to be a vanity domain hosted on ow.ly infrastructure.
  • at5.us - No response as of 2023-05-16. 302 redirect on success, 404 on error; requires an account for creating short URLs.
  • aurls.info - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • azon.biz - No response as of 2023-05-16. Gives 200 on error. Gives 301 on success. Starts at Single character. Doesn't appear to be accepting new short urls.
  • azqq.com - For Sale as of 2019-04-05
  • b2l.me - For Sale as of 2018-12-28
  • b54.in - Domain parking page as of 2023-05-16. Gives 301 for valid URLs and 307 for invalid URLs. It is possible to enter keywords to create personalized URLs. Seems to be non-sequential. Example: b54.in/9me4
  • b65.us - For Sale as of 2019-01-02
  • bacn.me
  • bcool.bz - ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT as of 2018-12-28
  • bdu.me - For sale as of 2018-12-31
  • be.vc
  • biglnk.com - dead, replaced with unrelated blog
  • biturl.in - ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED as of 2018-12-29
  • biturl.net - for sale as of 01:01, 2016-06-06 (EDT)
  • bizz.cc - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • bloat.me - parking page as of 15:05, 2016-01-02 (EST)
  • bombch.us - Site is dead as of 2023-11-19T10:20:23Z (no response from server). Site was still available, and still allowing creation of new URLs, as of 2023-11-10T18:29:13Z. URLs were sequentially generated base64 numbers (using - and _ for non-alphanumeric characters) and had reached 4 characters at the time of the site's death. Example (likely created 2022-11): http://bombch.us/DXm6
  • BTC.ms - Domain parking page as of 2023-05-16. No Login required to create links. The links seem to be non-sequential. 7,287,276 links already created. Returns 200 with existing link. Non-existing return 404. Example: http://btc.ms/72i4y1N4udHgK40FF0
  • Buk.me - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • buraga.org - seems to be a social network, not a url shortener as of 01:01, 2016-06-06 (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, 2015-12-13 (EST)
  • catchyurl.co
  • cf.ly (CashFly.com) -- redirects to happydaydeals4you.com as of 02:04, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • chod.sk - Appears non-incremental, not resolving
  • cl.lk - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • cli.gs - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST); Appears non-incremental
  • cliccami.info - Apache default page as of 15:33, 2016-01-02 (EST)
  • clk.my - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • clop.in -- domain parked as of 21:52, 2015-11-21 (EST)
  • coge.la -- just a logo as of 22:00, 2015-11-21 (EST)
  • come.to - (wayback of homepage) Related to various .to shorteners. Started in 1997, killed in 2013 after parent company died.
  • Crum.pl - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • cu.tl - Called "Cut Link". Probably owned by the same people as shrink.im, based on the reused graphics / design; does not resolve as of 2019-04-02
  • curio.us - ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED as of 2019-01-06
  • cut.io - Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:29 UTC
  • da.co - Parked as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (EST)
  • dag.gy - Used to be a bit.ly alias; parking page as of 2018-12-13, 16:55 UTC.
  • dai3.net - Offers a URL shorting service, but it doesn't seem to work; unclear if existing links work; as of 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT)
  • decenturl.com - Redirects to namecheap.com/market as of 2023-05-16. 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, 2016-02-10 (EST)
  • dfl.me - For sale as of 03:09, 2016-08-19 (EDT)
  • dfl8.me - For sale as of 2018-12-30 previously had an archive of created URLs apparently
  • dft.ba - Server gone as of 01:11, 2015-11-17 (EST) ; site had shutdown message (claiming links would continue to work), from 2015-07 through 2015-09. "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
  • digbig.com - Offline as of 2023-05-16. no longer accepting new users as of 2014-03-01
  • digg.com - discontinued - [6]
  • do.my - Blank page as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (EST)
  • dollarfalls.info - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • domainonair.com - appears to just offer DNS services as of 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT)
  • donotlink.it Domain parking page as of 2023-05-16. appears random, ex: https://donotlink.it/Z2KP https://donotlink.it/AKbJ https://donotlink.it/qbpb, valid: 200 OK, invalid: 404 Not Found. "Most donotlink.it URLs are 4-6 characters, only include letters and numbers (and are case sensitive) (e.g. https://donotlink.it/zxwL) or have another URL appended (e.g. https://donotlink.it/http://example.com)" (from page that appears for invalid links)
  • dopen.us - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • dri.pr - Undrip.com shortener, dead since 2013, archive
  • dropmylinks.com - For Sale as of 2018-12-27
  • dwarfurl.com - Numeric, appears incremental: http://dwarfurl.com/08041 ; domain for sale as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (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, 2016-02-10 (EST); doesn't respond as of 23:34, 2016-09-18 (EDT)
  • eqent.me - Improper redirect to bitly.
  • esyURL.com - Russian error page saying the site is temporarily suspended as of 23:34, 2016-09-18 (EDT)
  • evrsh.in - evrsh.in’s server IP address could not be found. as of 2019-04-15
  • eweri.com - doesn't respond as of 23:34, 2016-09-18 (EDT)
  • fa.by - Shut down on Apr 8, 2012 (according to Wayback). Last checked 01:22, 2016-02-17 (EST)
  • feedzil.la - Domain parked; server doesn't respond as of 01:22, 2016-02-17 (EST)
  • femto.pw - Domain parked as of 2023-05-20. Last alive check was 05/01/2021.
  • fff.to - Parking page as of 01:22, 2016-02-17 (EST)
  • filoops.info - Domain parked as of 2023-05-20. Last alive check was 29/01/2016.
  • fire.to - Server doesn't respond as of 01:22, 2016-02-17 (EST)
  • flpbd.it - Flipboard -- Appears down as of 02:45, 2016-05-19 (EDT)
  • fly2.ws - Empty page as of 01:22, 2016-02-17 (EST)
  • flyt.it - Microsoft Azure Web App 404 page as of 2023-05-20. Last alive check was 03/04/2019.
  • fon.gs - server down as of 22:00, 2015-11-21 (EST); DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • freak.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • fur.ly - claims to allow you to "Shorten multiple urls into one", died between 2016-08-22 and 2016-09-28.
  • fuseurl.com - Account Suspended as of 00:29, 2016-10-06 (EDT)
  • fuzzy.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • fwd4.me - redirects to a site about traffic cameras as of 22:00, 2015-11-21 (EST)
  • fwib.net - parking page as of 01:22, 2016-02-17 (EST)
  • g.ro.lt - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • gca.sh - Dead website, broken links as of 2017-08-17 (CEST). According to archive.org: it was working on 2016-04-26, but not on 2016-10-01. Owned by GCash.com, which has a working website at the moment.
  • gl.am - Empty as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)
  • go.to - sold its domains on Sedo apparently.
  • go2.me - everything 404s
  • go2.vg - Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:41 UTC
  • go2cut.com - Website dead
  • gob.li - Golbin Ridge Limited. Timed out
  • gonext.org - not resolving
  • goshrink.com - not resolving as of 02:13, 2016-12-04 (EST)
  • gurl.es - Server not responding as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)
  • gx.si
  • gyar.eu - Server gone as of 01:07, 2015-11-17 (EST) (examples: http://gyar.eu/c8 ; http:// gyar.eu/agB)
  • hao.jp - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • hashonomy.com - Timed out
  • hex.io - Gandi parking page as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)
  • hii.fyi - 404 page as of 2023-05-20. Last alive check was 05/04/2019.
  • hj.to -- server requests HTTP Basic auth as of 22:05, 2015-11-21 (EST)
  • hmm.li -- "dead for some time" and likely unrelated to hmm.ph according to hmmm_ on IRC as of 2017-08-14 20:40 UTC
  • hmm.ph -- Domain for sale as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)
  • ho.io - 500 as of 2019-05-29 - 04:27 UTC
  • hoot.to - Dead as of 06:08, 2022-10-10 (UTC)
  • hop.im -- a personal homepage as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)
  • href.hu
  • href.in - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • hsblinks.com - app login page as of 02:13, 2016-12-04 (EST)
  • htcdev.net - DNS not resolving.
  • htxt.it - redirects to spam as of 02:13, 2016-12-04 (EST)
  • Hurl.it - does not seem to be a shortener as of 02:13, 2016-12-04 (EST)
  • hurl.me - doesn't resolve as of 02:13, 2016-12-04 (EST)
  • hurl.no - Shut down sometime between 2011-03-05 and 2011-05-29 due to an influx of spam. As of 02:24, 2015-12-03 (EST), the domain appears to be owned by someone else.
  • hurl.ws - spam blog as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • iawtp.me - DNS not resolving
  • icanhaz.com - Contains a "closed as of June 2010" message as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)
  • icymi.me - DNS not resolving
  • idek.net DNS not resolving as of 00:04, 2016-10-06 (EDT) ; seemed alive, allowed public shortening as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT) ; idek.net/CDN, idek.net/CND ; alphabet: asdASD123 ; 600 ghits ; 3, some 4 char length; existing: 301 - location ; not existing: http://new.idek.net/SHORTCODE ; new.idek.net broken, can't create new links. seems incremental
  • ik.my - Domain for sale as of 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT)
  • iKr.me - Asian-script spam site as of 02:24, 2015-12-03 (EST)
  • ilix.in - domain parked
  • imfy.us - requires a recaptcha to get to the linked site, and avast goes nuts. DNS fails to resolve.
  • imtiny.com - Redirects to unreleated website as of 2019-05-29 - 04:49 UTC
  • infovak.com - redirects to some marketing site as of 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT)
  • inspr.in - Inspired Beta. Can't find server
  • ir.pe - server times out as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • irt.me - DNS not resolving as of 02:24, 2015-12-03 (EST)
  • its.my - Just an advert as of 04:07, 2016-01-01 (EST)
  • ity.im - Host error as of 2023-05-20, shows adverts, not clear if it still works as of 23:40, 2* 015-12-19 (EST). Last alive check was 19/12/2015.
  • itz.bz - domain parked as of 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT)
  • ix.it - Not resolving
  • ix.lt - website about a "Music Without Walls" project (?) as of 02:13, 2016-12-04 (EST)
  • j2j.de - empty blog as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • jijr.com - Doesn't appear to be a shortener, now parked as of 04:07, 2016-01-01 (EST)
  • jnl.io - No response as of 2023-05-20. Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.. Last alive check was 16/04/2019.
  • joomlagyar.hu/usb - DNS not resolving
  • jump.to - dead as of 2013-02-01
  • just.as - dead as of 2019-04
  • k.vu - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • kaaf.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • keTKP.in - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • kisa.ch - Domain for sale as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)
  • kissa.be - "Kissa.be url shortener service is shutdown"
  • kl.am - "kl.am Closes its Shell" (server not available as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT))
  • kly.so - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • Kots.Nu - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • krunchd.com - redirects to a real estate site as of 00:58, 2016-06-15 (EDT)
  • krz.ch - redirects to idealizer.ch (SEO company) as of 02:24, 2015-12-03 (EST)
  • kuijt.nu - replaced with unrelated site
  • kurl.us - Parked.
  • l.gg - server not responding as of 01:31, 2015-12-13 (EST)
  • l.pr - LinksPreadeR (review from TechCrunch[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]) - DNS not resolving as of 01:09, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • l1nks.org - redirects to Asian porn site as of 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT)
  • l9k.net - Empty page as of 2023-05-20, seems alive, allows public shortening as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT). Last alive check was 13/03/2016.
  • lien2.com - Domain parked as of 2023-05-20, http://lien2 . com/go/a6cx ; seems-non-incremental, only 583 shortened urls (as of 02:27, 2015-11-29 (EST) ). Last alive check was 29/11/2015.
  • lil.ink - Domain parked as of 2023-05-20. Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.. Last alive check was 16/04/2019.
  • liltext.com - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • lin.io - Site dead as of 2023-05-20. uses frame/toolbar (site is alive as of 01:09, 2015-12-07 (EST)). Last alive check was 07/12/2015.
  • lingid.eu - Dead as of 2020-03-26 13:15 (EET). It redirected to lingid.ee what allowed to shorten URLs for this domain. The domain is registered, but does not resolve any more. Was hosted and managed by Virtuaal OÜ
  • linkbun.ch - Cloudflare Workers placeholder as of 2023-05-20. combines multiple URLs into one short URL, probably requires custom code -- 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT). Last alive check was 14/03/2016.
  • linkee.com - shut down with a notice on 2014-07-23
  • liurl.cn - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • lk.to
  • lmo.ee - Dead as of 2020-03-26 13:15 (EET). It redirected to lingid.ee what allowed to shorten URLs for this domain. The domain expired and is now available again. Was hosted and managed by Virtuaal OÜ
  • ln-s.net - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • ln-s.ru - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • LNK.by - Cyrillic domain parking page as of 01:09, 2015-12-07 (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, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • lnk.ly - DNS not resolving as of 01:09, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • lnk.ms - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • lnk.nu - parking page as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)
  • lnkurl.com - Website empty as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT)
  • lru.jp - Just shows a login form as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT)
  • lst.bz - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • lt.tl - Domain parked as of 2023-05-20. site is up, says "Service will be back soon..." as of 01:31, 2015-12-09 (EST). Last alive check was 09/12/2015.
  • lu.mu - Appears to no longer be a URL shortening service 2018-12-31
  • lurl.no - Server doesn't respond as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT)
  • m112.hu - Link creation (and website) appears to be broken as of 22:28, 2016-05-28 (EDT)
  • macte.ch - 403 as of 2023-05-20. seems alive, allows public shortening as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT). Last alive check was 14/03/2016.
  • mangk.us - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • marv.ly - DNS fails to resolve.
  • mash.to - Cannot connect ; Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • mcaf.ee - Site down as of 2023-05-20. Last alive check was 29/04/2016.
  • me.lt - Connection refused.
  • me2.hu - DNS error as of 22:28, 2016-05-28 (EDT)
  • memurl.com - Pronounceable. Broken.
  • mens.hm - Not responding (timeout)
  • micURL.com - parking page as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (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, 2015-12-09 (EST)
  • mindless.co
  • minilien.com - Doesn't appear guessable: http://minilien.com/?9nyvwnA0gh - Website dead
  • minilink.org - parking page as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)
  • minim.in - Times out
  • miniurl.com - Just an ad page as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT)
  • miniurl.hu - Times out as of 22:28, 2016-05-28 (EDT)
  • minurl.org - Presently in ERROR 404
  • minyurl.net - Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:25 UTC
  • mke.me - Service Temporarily Unavailable as of 00:58, 2016-06-15 (EDT)
  • mmmm.ee - Dead as of 2020-03-26 13:15 (EET). It redirected to lingid.ee what allowed to shorten URLs for this domain. The domain is registered, but does not resolve. Was hosted and managed by Virtuaal OÜ
  • ms.me - Parked.
  • msplinks.com - Used by Myspace[7]
  • mtw.tl - everything 403s
  • muhlink.com - Not resolving
  • multiurl.com - Redirected to zapped.to as of 2023-05-20. Claims to let you share multiple URLs at once. Last alive check was 13/07/2016.
  • my7b.com - Server IP address could not be found as of 2019-05-29 - 04:47 UTC
  • myloc.me - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • MySp.in - parking page as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)
  • mytinyurl.com - redirects to an unrelated image
  • mytinyurl.net - Redirects to unrelated website as of 2019-05-29 - 04:49 UTC
  • MyURL.in - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • myurl.us - cpanel frontend
  • myurlz.com - Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:26 UTC
  • myv.bz - Not resolving
  • nao.usem.xyz - completely dead as of 2021-03-30, last seen alive in 2017 May, then went up for sale, now empty
  • nazr.in - DNS not responding as of 2020-11-01; seen alive as recently as 2020-04-16
  • nblo.gs - Dead as of 2022-05-07 (UTC) with the message "Error: Page not found" and "The requested URL was not found on this server." on the main page.
  • nbx.ch - Domain parked as of 2023-05-20 private shortener; appears up as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST). Last alive check was 09/12/2015.
  • ndurl.com - redirects to site offering "Minecraft for Free" as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)
  • news.me - no obvious way to create URLs from the home page as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST); domain doesn't resolve as of 04:52, 2016-04-06 (UTC)
  • nm.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • nn.nf - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • not.my - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • nsyed.com - Just contains a short equation as of 02:00, 2016-07-14 (EDT)
  • nutshellurl.com - 403/404 as of 2023-05-20. Appears incremental. 301s to a redirector script, which then 301s you to the destination. Seems alive as of 14:59, 2016-03-20 (EDT). Last alive check was 20/03/2016.
  • nxy.in - Just displays "HNY 2016!" as of 15:00, 2016-03-20 (EDT)
  • nyturl.com - NY Times (bonus points for being longer than nyt.com, which they own). Taken by squatters
  • o-x.fr - Non-loading adverts as of 01:11, 2016-04-03 (EDT)
  • oc1.us - parking page as of 17:51, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • om.ly - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • omani.ac - redirects to a journalism website as of 2021-03-30, last seen alive in 2018 May
  • omf.gd - DNS not responding as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST) ; Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • omoikane.net - ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT as of 2019-01-02
  • onvzi.com - DNS fails to resolve.
  • ooqx.com - domain for sale as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • ooze.us - domain for sale as of 02:00, 2016-07-14 (EDT)
  • orz.se - domain registrar as of 01:11, 2016-04-03 (EDT)
  • otf.me - Empty WordPress site
  • ozn.st - Site down as of 2023-05-20. Claims to be for personal use only. Last alive check was 13/07/2016.
  • p.pw - 404 as of 2023-05-20. sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape (as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST)). Last alive check was 07/11/2015.
  • p2p.gop - Site down as of 2023-05-20. Link shortener used by some Republican politicians. Example: http://p2p.gop/4l2p http://p2p.gop redirects to tinyurl.com. Short codes appear to be random and not in tinyurl space. Valid: * 302 Found (and redirects to intended link target, not a tinyurl intermediary link) Invalid: 200 OK. Last alive check was 28/01/2021.
  • para.pt - parking page as of 01:31, 2015-12-13 (EST)
  • Pendek.in - parking page as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)
  • Pic.gd - appears to be an image sharing site as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)
  • Piko.me - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • ping.fm - Fails to resolve.
  • PiURL.com - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • pli.gs - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • pln.so - Not working.
  • Plo.cc - parking page as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (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, 2016-06-10 (EDT)
  • po.st - Domain parked as of 2023-05-20 "social sharing platform"; no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST)). Last alive check was 07/11/2015.
  • pops.ci - pops.ci/Q0dFvW ; all 6 Character ; uppercase, lowercase & digits ; ~2500 Results(according to google) ; existing: 301, Location: ; not existing: 404, 302(redirs to popsci main page); DNS doesn't resolve as of 00:27, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • pp.gg - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • pqn.pw - http://www.pqn.pw/en - www.pqn.pw’s server IP address could not be found as of 2019-04-15
  • prsm.tc - Site down as of 2023-05-20. 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, 2016-06-10 (EDT). Last alive check was 10/06/2016.
  • pt2.me - default server page as of 02:09, 2015-12-09 (EST)
  • Puke.It - parking page as of 02:09, 2015-12-09 (EST)
  • pulsene.ws - Expired. Parked by GoDaddy.
  • qlnk.net - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • qps.ru - Dead as of 2022-05-07 (UTC)
  • qte.me - rediects to mcdev.com which times out as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • qu.tc - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • qurlyq.com - Javascript redirect. Appears sequential: http://qurlyq.com/5nf. Domain parked.
  • qux.in - Parking page as of 01:04, 2015-12-10 (EST)
  • r.im - page is blank (but contains title) as of 01:04, 2015-12-10 (EST)
  • rb6.me - redirects to "coming soon" page as of 17:51, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • RDE.me - GoDaddy parking page as of 01:04, 2015-12-10 (EST)
  • re.ad - Fails to resolve.
  • readthis.ca - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • reallytinyurl.com - A non-English blog of some kind as of 15:00, 2016-03-20 (EDT)
  • redir.ec - 403 Forbidden as of 17:51, 2015-12-12 (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, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • rehttp.com - Redirects to unrelated website after a long time waiting as of 2019-05-29 - 04:46 UTC
  • retwt.me - Server fails to respond as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • rickroll.it - page with just ads as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • riz.gd - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • RT.nu - parking page as of 01:11, 2016-04-03 (EDT)
  • RubyURL.com - DNS not responding as of 02:24, 2015-12-12 (EST) ; Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • rurl.org - Service Temporarily Unavailable as of 00:58, 2016-06-15 (EDT)
  • rww.tw - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • s.me - Domain parked.
  • s3nt.com - Probably sequential. http://s3nt.com/aa goes somewhere different from /ab . Domain parked.
  • s4c.in - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • s7y.us - empty page as of 2021-03-30, last seen alive in 2016 April
  • Sai.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • sameurl.com - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • say.ly - redirects to unrelated site
  • scriptzon.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • scrnch.me - DNS not responding as of 01:15, 2016-01-29 (EST)
  • sdai.ly - Allows custom shorturl -- DNS does not resolve as of 03:45, 2016-06-10 (EDT)
  • sdut.us - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • see.sc - Fails to resolve.
  • sfu.ca - server times out as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • Short.ie - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • short.im - domain parked, last seen alive 2018-12-03.
  • short.nr - DNS not responding as of 01:31, 2015-12-13 (EST)
  • short.to - Domain is parked - Probably sequential/loweralpha: http://short.to/msmp ; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • Short.Url - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • shortlinks.co.uk - Working again. Maybe not. ; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • shortme.info - "Origin DNS error" from Cloudflare as of 2019-05-29 - 04:43 UTC
  • shortxlink.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • shout.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • show.my - Likely dead (Folder listing) (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • shr.tn - 403 from CloudFlare as of 02:00, 2016-07-14 (EDT)
  • shrinkify.com - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • shrinklink.co.uk - Doesn't appear sequential: http://www.shrinklink.co.uk/45bmx , www.shrinklink.co.uk/npk6xp . Domain parked.
  • shrinkr.com - formerly did link shortening has now been bought by another company that does something else (2018-12-27)
  • 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, 2016-06-10 (EDT)
  • shrt.st - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • shrt.ws - personal homepage as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • shrtb.us - Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:34 UTC
  • shrten.com - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • Shrtn.com - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • shrtn.us - myshorturls.appspot.com. 404, does not resolve
  • Shw.me - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (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, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • siteo.us - returns "521 Origin Down" as of 17:51, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • sitereview.me - page with no visible content as of 02:00, 2016-07-14 (EDT)
  • sk.gy - under construction as of 02:00, 2016-07-14 (EDT)
  • sl.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • slki.ru - Not a shortener, not sure if it integrates one. (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • smallr.com - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • smallurl.in - Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:27 UTC
  • smf.is - DNS not resolving.
  • smfu.in - Currently not working, site exists. (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • smsh.me - Dead: Cannot connect to database. (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • snipie.com - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • snipurl.com - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • snpurl.biz - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • sns.mx - SNS Analytics, domain parked
  • snurl.com - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • socialcampaign.com - Times out as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • song.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • spedr.com - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • sq.com - Now redirects to Singapore Airlines.
  • srnk.net - redirects to tiny-url.info as of 02:37, 2016-05-14 (EDT)
  • srs.li - Not a shortener (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • starturl.com - Suspended as of 2019-05-29 - 04:42 UTC
  • su.pr - StumbleUpon Died presumably when StumbleUpon did. Not responsive as of 2019-04-12
  • surl.hu – Last contact on 2014-07-16, nearly 2M sURLs gone. Domain taken but idle now ; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • SwU.me - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • swyze.com - swyze.com’s server IP address could not be found. 2019-04-15
  • tcp3.com - Unrelated website as of 2019-05-29 - 04:39 UTC
  • tei.ai - Content replaced as of 2023-06-23. Last alive check was 2022-07-18. Another mystery spammy URL shortener with no clear indicator of how to create new ones and multiple hoops to jump through to get to the final url
  • tgi.link - Content replaced as of 2023-06-23. Last alive check was 2019-04-16. Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.
  • tgr.me - Dead (403) (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • theminiurl.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)
  • TimesURL.at - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • tin.bz - Redirects to unrelated website as of 2019-05-29 - 04:34 UTC
  • tini.us - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • tiniuri.com - Account suspended as of 00:58, 2016-06-15 (EDT)
  • tiny.ly - was alive as of 2016-01-01, timing out as of 2020-06-15 14:00 UTC, probably died in late February 2016 per Wayback Machine
  • tinylord.com - tinylord.com’s server IP address could not be found. 2019-04-15
  • TinyPl.us - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • tinyuri.ca - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • tllg.net - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • tm.to - Twtmore has "flown away"
  • tmsurl.com ‐ Server IP address could not be found as of 2019-05-29 - 04:31 UTC
  • tnij.org - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • to.gg - Global Giving, everything 503s
  • to.je - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • to.vg - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • totesz.hu/x - Does not resolve as of 02:53, 2016-08-19 (EDT)
  • tpal.us - Server IP address could not be found as of 2019-05-29 - 04:37 UTC
  • tpl.ee - Site unreachable as of 2023-06-23. Last alive check was 2020-03-26. LSTU Hosted and used by Jtagcat. LSTU instances by default list all shortened URLs at /stats and give you a json file of all URLs at /cookie. Logging in as admin allows you to delete any shortened URLs.
  • tpm.ly - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • traceurl.com - DNS fails to resolve.
  • trumpink.lt - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • trunc.it - Content replaced as of 2023-06-23. Last alive check was 2015-12-12. closed, but still resolving existing URLs as of 17:43, 2015-12-12 (EST); http://trunc.it/pssga ; returns 301 for existing and non-existing shortcodes
  • tsort.us - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • turl.no - Database error: "Incorrect DB config, or could not connect to DB" (2019-04-16 20:39 UTC)
  • tw6.us - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • tweet.me - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • tweetburner.com / twurl.nl - Appears incremental, everything 404s
  • tweez.me - redirects to vurl.com (which 404s) as of 04:04, 2016-01-01 (EST) ; was described as a "Free Premium URL Shortening Service"
  • Twip.us - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • twitpwr.com - Domain parked.
  • twitt.hu
  • twitterurl.net - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • twitterurl.org - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • twitthis.com - Content replaced as of 2023-06-23. Last alive check was 2015-11-07. requires a Twitter account to create shortURLs (as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST))
  • twiturl.de - Site unreachable as of 2023-06-23. Last alive check was 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.twiturl.de'), ex.:http://twiturl.de/gudet (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • 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, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • twurl.cc - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))
  • twurl.nl - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • tzd.me - Content replaced as of 2023-06-23. Last alive check was 2016-10-31. Has an export function built for easy import: http://api.tzd.me/export.php?meta returns a JSON object with meta-information, and http://api.tzd.me/export.php?page=0 will export the list in BEACON format, with headers to indicate pagination status.
  • u.bb - No DNS as of 01:15, 2016-01-29 (EST)
  • u.fail - replaced with something else, other aliases: forum.fail (SERVFAIL, DNSSEC fail?), share.fail (domain on marketplace), social.fo (firefox errors with SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP), checked on 2023-09-02
  • u.mavrev.com - Stopped accepting new urls. Now times out. Shows a shared webhosting notice as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • u.nu - "The shortest URLs. period." Website dead since at least 2010-10-01 (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, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • u76.org - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • ub0.cc - redirects to software site http://www.shareitforpca.com/ as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • uiop.me - just lists an email address as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • ulu.lu - Gandi domain parking page as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • unfaker.it - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • updating.me - not a URL shortening service as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • ur.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • urizy.com - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • url-press.com - Suspended by web host.
  • URL.AG - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • url.co.uk - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • url.com - Redirects to a lyric search site as of 21:06, 2016-11-21 (EST)
  • url360.me - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • url4.eu - Site for sale as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • url9.com - Sequential, alphanumeric. Leading 0s are significant. "The site is working correctly."
  • urlborg.com - 404 Not Found.
  • urlBorg.com - 404s as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • URLCorta.es - For sale as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • urlcover.com - Domain parked.
  • urlenco.de - server times out as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • urlG.info - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • urlhawk.com - Domain parked as of 21:06, 2016-11-21 (EST)
  • urli.nl - Forbidden HTTP code as of 21:06, 2016-11-21 (EST)
  • urloo.com - domain for sale as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)
  • urlot.com - DNS not responding as of 21:06, 2016-11-21 (EST)
  • urls.im - redirects to a marketer's home page as of 21:06, 2016-11-21 (EST)
  • urlshort.me - Redirects to unrelated website as of 2019-05-29 - 04:22 UTC
  • urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com - random non-English baseball cap spam blog as of 21:06, 2016-11-21 (EST)
  • 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, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • urlvi.be - Domain parked.
  • urlx.ie - Redirects to software site as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • urlx.org - Owner has agreed to share his database
  • URLZ.at - Redirects to a clothing store as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • urlzen.com - For sale as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • usav.us - Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:46 UTC
  • use.my - DNS not responding as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • usite.hu/link.php - Content replaced as of 2023-06-23. Last alive check was 2016-08-18. Numeric incremental, public database - [0-9]{1,5}, starts at 1 (see http://usite.hu/link.php?k=16000 for full list of links) ex: http://usite.hu/x/18084 http://usite.hu/x/18085 valid requests return 302 Redirect to target link, invalid requests return 302 to /link.php (GET/HEAD)
  • uxp.in - still resolves URLs, but site just shows blank page. Domain parked.
  • vaime.org - Server IP address could not be found as of 2019-05-29 - 04:44 UTC
  • vb.ly - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST) (but see above)
  • vi.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)
  • vibemag.co - Vibe Magazine. Times out
  • viralurl.com - (alias vur.me, viralurl.biz, vurl.bz, virl.ws ) connection refused as of 02:53, 2016-08-19 (EDT)
  • virl.co - "Have fun with interesting lists" as of 02:44, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • vk-cc.com - Domain parked as of 2023-06-23. Last alive check was 2017-06-25. (not the same as vk.cc) Russian url shortener for any url, not only from VK. You can shorten without registration. Valid: "HTTP/1.1 200 OK", does not return Location. Invalid: "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found". As of 2017-06-25 the homepage says the total number of shorten links are 12144.(Does this include password protected, or only the public ones?) Example: https://vk-cc.com/1txW I shortened 6 URLs, resulted with 4 to 6 characters, 0-1A-Za-z, with similar/same characters next to each other (XX, 0O), able to start with numbers. Also able to create custom short urls (with the field with the A - placeholder="Свой адрес короткой ссылки" with maxlength="50" (!)) Potencial issue: on the default, not registered shortening setting it has a 5-second contdown (intermediate page) and a clickable link after the countdown. Solvable by view-source:https://vk-cc.com/1txW, link on the 151th line (always at the same place with the default settings). TODO: explore short url options (timer, password, multiple urls...) creation with registration.
  • vkvi.net - Content replaced as of 2023-06-23. Last alive check was 2019-04-16. Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.
  • vl.am - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • vm.lc - Just the words "Short is cool..." as of 02:44, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • voizle.com - redirects to lovesharma as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (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, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • vtny.org - Homepage loads, but all shortcodes give 404 as of 2021-04-02. Built with YOURLS; announcement blog post
  • w3t.org - 403 Forbidden; construction page as of 02:44, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • w55.de - Just the domain name on the page as of 02:44, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • wa.la - For sale as of 02:44, 2016-04-29 (EDT)
  • wipi.es - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • wl.tl - DNS not resolving.
  • wlink.us - Domain parked.
  • wt.org - Seems to be unrelated personal homepage as of 22:21, 2016-09-18 (EDT)
  • wwy.me - Server not responding as of 04:04, 2016-01-01 (EST)
  • x.se - Cannot resolve, but www.x.se works.
  • xaddr.com - Domain parked.
  • XeeURL.com - server not responding as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT) ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED as of 2024-01-26
  • 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, 2016-05-15 (EDT))
  • xr.com - Doesn't resolve as of 02:37, 2016-05-14 (EDT)
  • xrl.in - Domain for sale as of 02:37, 2016-05-14 (EDT)
  • xrt.me - Spam blog as of 02:37, 2016-05-14 (EDT)
  • xurl.jp - Server not responding as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)
  • xxsURL.de - Domain parked as of 2023-06-23. Last alive check was 2016-04-14.
  • xym.kr - Gibberish (?) Korean text blog.
  • y.ahoo.it - Yahoo
  • ya.com - Error message in Spanish as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)
  • ye.pe - Running an empty instance of OwnCloud as of 02:50, 2016-05-14 (EDT)
  • yep.it - Domain parked as of 2023-06-23. Last alive check was 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, 2015-11-07 (EST)); claims 36,383 URLs as of 00:58, 2016-06-15 (EDT)
  • yi.tl - Server not responding as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)
  • yiyd.com - Directory listing for a spam site as of 02:50, 2016-05-14 (EDT)
  • yweb.com - Suspicious iframe with long url and fake loading gif image.
  • z.pe - ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED as of 2018-12-27
  • z0p.de - Domain for sale as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)
  • zi.mu - Server not responding as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT) ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED as of 2024-01-26
  • zi.pe - 404s as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT). Domain for sale as of 2024-01-06
  • zip.li - parking page as of 17:51, 2015-12-12 (EST)
  • zip.sm - was a redirect to joturl.com. Now times out
  • ZipMyURL.com - Server not responding as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)
  • 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, 2016-05-15 (EDT)). ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED as of 2024-01-26
  • zz.gd - Was shut down due to spam sometime around 2010. Existing URLs do not seem to resolve as of 02:50, 2016-05-14 (EDT) (Now redirects to http://fokex.com/)
  • zzang.kr - domain for sale as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)
  • ъеъ.рф - Dead as of 2019-04-18
  • 跳.jp - Dead on 2021-02-14 (JST)


External list

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.[3]
  • beam.to - Discontinued Domain is for sale.
  • feedly.com/e/ - realized that URL shorteners were bad [4]. Non-cooperative.
  • icanhaz.com -- shut down sometime around 2010-06; IA dump that should be un-darked.
  • linkbucks.com - Discontinued as of 2023-05-20. 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.. Last alive check was 28/05/2016.
  • lks.uk.to -- no DNS as of 03:01, 2015-12-15 (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.
  • p.tl -- Used by Pixiv to link to illustrations using their ID number. Discontinued on 9/29/2017.[5]
  • pnt.me - Doesn't appear guessable, too big a space to bruteforce: http://pnt.me/FzAblc (DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)) IA dump that should be un-darked.
  • s.tt - shortener of http://repost.us[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]. 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, 2015-12-15 (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, 2015-12-15 (EST); 16 items on IA that should be un-darked.
  • x.vu - as of 2021-03-30, still works for now. Statement readable on e.g. x.vu/ vR8ptx - "X.vu URL Shortener has discontinued its service...forcing us to shutdown our X.vu URL shortenening service on September 15th 2017. We have launched an effort to keep existing X.vu links alive -without any guarantees."
  • Zapt.In - 404's as of 23:10, 2015-12-15 (EST) ; https://archive.org/details/ZaptinShortedUrlsIn20113110 should be un-darked; appears to be under control of IA as of 2016-05-30, 18:31 CEST

External lists to integrate

See URLTeam/unsorted

Machine readable versions of this information

The information above is only useful if it can be used. If there is are tabular or other machine-readable formats such as JSON that can be consumed by tooling, they should be listed below.

  • httpreserve - shorteners collects, with some margin for error, the host urls for the different shorteners listed above (NB. just the wiki formatted tables). The objective is to enable HTTPreserve's tooling to follow redirects more reliably when seeking Internet Archive earliest and latest links.

Archives

Check out Audit2014 and help audit the archives. In particular, the stuff not on Internet Archive needs to be uploaded.

  • See the latest torrent release for URLs before Tinytown. A copy is available at URLTeamTorrentRelease2013July
  • Tinytown results are uploaded to the Internet Archive. They are incremental, so you will need to download them all to get all URLs.
    • A manually updated list of all the torrents is available here or a complete list can be dynamically fetched by executing curl 'https://archive.org/services/search/v1/scrape?q=subject:terroroftinytown&count=10000' | jq -r '.items[].identifier | ("https://archive.org/download/" + . + "/" + . + "_archive.torrent")'
    • They are formatted as follows:
      • Each IA item (which can be downloaded in full via BitTorrent or as a zip file) contains multiple zip files, named PROJECT_NAME.TIMESTAMP.zip (where PROJECT_NAME is the warrior project name (as listed in the table below, and on https://tracker.archiveteam.org:1338/status) and TIMESTAMP is a dash-separated timestamp matching the name of the item.
      • Each zip file contains a subdirectory matching the PROJECT_NAME, which contains a file named PROJECT_NAME.meta.json.xz and one or more files whose names start with one or more underscores, followed by .txt.xz.
      • The xz files can be decompressed with the wikipedia:XZ Utils.
      • The meta.json file is a copy of the project settings (as linked from the table below) at the time the dump was made.
      • The txt files contain the actual URLs, in BEACON format.
      • The simple description of BEACON format is that each line (except for a few header lines) consists of the shortcode, followed by a vertical bar, followed by the original URL.

References

Weblinks

Common URL shortening software

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