I think reallytinyurl.com missed the point.

Haha, I'd never seen that, and it's made by Contrast.io - one of my favorite web development firms.

Yeah I found it kind of funny too :)

URL shortening is getting way out of hand. It's the worst get-rich-quick scheme ever.

You missed http://tagz.in . Yes, Tagz is a bookmarking site, but it also gives a short URL. I had suggested the developer to add the Short URL facility to all pages, but is unfortunately available only on the user's own saved page. If enough people ask, the developer might give the facikity for all links.

I used weeit.com once and now it's dead.

http://qurl.co.uk is one of the originals and is super-fast - except for the domain name length, a good benchmark for speed, simplicity and contraction.

Also: h3o.de and digg.com

why is there none with a 3 letter domain http://a.aa ?

I wonder how easy it'd be too run a CNAME or something on any or all of these services with a 3 letter domain, then add to it digg.com functionality (http://a.aa/ add url here to be shortened here) and then tie it automatically or user-select to any of these services, switching to another, (even reproducing for historic links) if one goes down?

Why not just build a new service? - well you can keep you're existing account/s and have theses nice extra features. (only the services with the shortest url lengths used, fastest creation times, and ones that don't monetize)

BTW, it's up to 80 sites now (http://niryariv.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/list-of-url-shorten...)

Why don't you make a list on http://listable.org? It'll automatically organize the list into more useful data formats.

Done: http://www.listable.org/show/url-shortening-sites

Thanks!

Maybe add URL-lengthening sites, too?

Add tinyarro.ws - they use a bunch of domains for the URLs themselves.

http://puny.sapo.pt/ or http://澥.sl.pt

Forget shortening URLs. Howabout shrinking images? ;-)

http://tinysrc.net/

lol - i still don't get how bit.ly is valued so high, esp. in light of this.

thanks for the links!

No problem.

(BTW I'm not sure bit.ly was a bad investment. Common sense might say so, but that has little to do with which Web companies get bought and for how much. If I was a VC I'd put some chips on a URL shortener, and bit.ly is one of the better (and hyped) ones right now)

bit.ly's really interesting in that it comes out Betaworks - since it's so closely tied to Twitter, and so many of Betaworks' investments are built on Twitter (Summize, StockTwits, Tweetdeck), they can help push adoption. It's a nice little keiretsu of related companies.

Yeah, I suppose it would make sense for Twitter to provide URL shortening themselves, and they'd probably buy someone like bit.ly for this - so betting $2m on it makes some sense (as much as anything makes sense in this area).

yeah, i see the twitter connection - definitely a good tech synergy there, but would it cost them that much to do it in-house?