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Tiny URL’s site is getting heavier demand

Posted by geeknews at 1:39 PM on December 23, 2003

As URL get longer do to fewer and fewer good domains being out there many people simply are having a hard time typing in the long URL’s that is where Tiny URL and several other services have filled in allowing any long url to be converted to a 6 letter url which helps avoid typing the url wrong when people are passing the info via chat or e-mail. They are expecting to launch a premium service in 2004. Geek News Central URL as a Tiny URL appears this way. (http://tinyurl.com/2ttlf) [ZDNet]

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2 Comments

From Iain at 6:20 pm on December 23, 2003
A premium service? What would that offer?

fwiw, you say ’several’. There are over a dozen of the blighters =)

http://dellah.org/shorten/?CategoryService
From Glenn Lyvers at 2:08 pm on April 9, 2004
1tiny.com does it too and you can buy the script to integrate into any website. this is especially nice for shortening your links within your website too. Pretty sweet.