Public Service Announcement: TinyURL.com

[Jamie Madigan]

Tired of breaking the forums with obnoxiously long URLs? You're in luck: http://www.tinyurl.com/.

Not recommended nearly as much: http://www.hugeurl.com/.

[cyborg]

I did this before - no one paid any heed.

[Matthew Gallant]

http://www.makeashorterlink.com/

It's better because when you click on its links, it shows you where it's going to go before forwarding you.

[Timemaster Tim]

well now that the URL linking facility is working again, we can inline the links.

[Duality]

What's fun is when you're bored, you can keep making huge and tiny URLs that will jump back and forth.

[Sean Tudor]

Tired of breaking the forums with obnoxiously long URLs? You're in luck: http://www.tinyurl.com/.

I have oftened wondered about this service. How long is the short URL valid for ? Wouldn't they run out of short links eventually ?

[Jamie Madigan]

I have oftened wondered about this service. How long is the short URL valid for ? Wouldn't they run out of short links eventually ?

Dunno. Presumably they keep them in some kind of database on their end. I imagine their business plan looks like this:

1. Launch service providing short URLs that forward to long ones
2. Store all URLS in a database
3. Wait until service is so popular that millions of links across the 'net use them.
4. Create pr0n site with pay-per-impression banners
5. Redirect ALL links to #4 above.
6. Roll around in phat rips of cash.

[russellmz00]

Wouldn't they run out of short links eventually ?

the sample url i made had 5 characters. with 26 letters and 10 numbers, that's 36 to the 5th: 60,466,176. if they add another character, that's 2,176,782,336. so that is not going to be a problem.
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