What is urlredirect.info?
urlredirect.info is a service that shortens URLs such as web addresses. This is useful in many circumstances (see below) e.g. in email clients that break long URLs.
For example, you can turn
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=France,+Paris,+Eiffel+tower&sll=48.835289,2.333307&sspn=0.040903,0.076733&ie=UTF8&hq=Eiffel+Tower&hnear=Eiffel+Tower,+Paris,+France&ll=48.858204,2.294359&spn=0.005111,0.009592&t=h&z=17into :
http://urlredirect.info/1
This makes it easier to include the link in an email or Twitter post without it breaking or taking up too much space. Our goal is to allow shortening URLs to the maximum extent technically possible.
Uses for urlredirect.info
Here are just a few of the many uses for urlredirect.info's URL shortening service: -
- Shorten web addresses for emails, forum posts, blogs etc. which cannot handle long URLs and might wrap them, making them unclickable
- Hide the real URLs of affiliate links from visitors to your site
- URL Shortener also encode URL to your uploaded YouTube video.
- Hide the real URLs of links to sensitive data uploaded into rapidsahre, megaupload and similar servers.
- Lower the character count when texting web addresses to a mobile phone
- Mask the real URLs of links to some private torrent trackers.
- Obscure your real email address from bots which harvest them to spam (enter an address like mailto:myaddress@myisp.com). Note that this feature does appear to be browser dependant so such links may not work in every browser
- Circumvent protections on sites which don't allow direct links to a competitor's site (if you are violating a site's terms you do so at your own risk)
- Clean up bookmarks for social bookmarking sites or sites with low character limits like Twitter
Certain uses of urlredirect.info are forbidden, for example use in unsolicited commercial email (SPAM). Be sure to check our terms of use