• URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the...
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  • TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service...
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  • automatically redirected to wikipedia.org. URL redirection is done for various reasons: for URL shortening; to prevent broken links when web pages are...
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  • taken-by=username URL parameter. Information architecture Permalink Persistent uniform resource locator (PURL) URL normalization URL redirection URL shortening HTTP...
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  • Google URL Shortener, also known as goo.gl, is a URL shortening service owned by Google. It was launched in December 2009, initially used for Google Toolbar...
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    Bitly (category URL-shortening services)
    Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New...
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  • Data URI scheme (redirect from Data: URL)
    embedding the attack payload fully inside the address bar, and hosted via URL shortening services rather than needing a full website that is controlled by a...
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    URLs, to be easier to type and remember. Most modern blogging and content-syndication software systems support such links. Sometimes URL shortening is...
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  • cases URL shortening isn't needed: "Before looking for alternative URL shortening solutions, you may want to consider if you need a short URL at all...
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  • secondary market, the result of the domain name speculation. Many popular URL shortening services are registered in the .ly domain, such as bit.ly (formerly...
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    domain names. A popular use for the domain is for news organizations for URL shortening purposes, mainly suffixed as "(organization name)ne.ws". Due to its...
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  • redirectors, pastebins, base domains from which to delegate subdomains and URL shortening services. On November 23, 1992, inter.net was registered. In the 1990s...
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  • Domain masking (redirect from URL Masking)
    spoofing URL shortening URL redirection Hutchison, Tom (2008). Web Marketing for the Music Business. CRC Press. ISBN 9780240810447. LCCN 2008020851. "URL Masking"...
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    took place in early 2008. In March 2009, StumbleUpon launched Su.pr, a URL shortening service, primarily to link to Twitter and Facebook statuses and updates...
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  • government since 2003. YouTube also uses the domain hack youtu.be for their URL shortening service. The Flemish separatist party Vlaams Belang introduced a draft...
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  • Typosquatting (redirect from URL hijacking)
    Mousetrapping – Digital marketing tool Phishing – Form of social engineering URL shortening – Web technique Claes, Bell (August 17, 2015). "'Typosquatting': How...
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  • Identifier (DOI) Handle System identifiers Link rot OPAC Permalink URL redirection URL shortening Uniform Resource Name (URN) Wayback Machine Services as URN...
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    OwnCloud (category CS1 errors: bare URL)
    public URLs for sharing files. Furthermore, users can interact with the browser-based ODF-format word processor, bookmarking service, URL shortening suite...
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  • Web .google, a Google-operated internet top-level domain goo.gl, a URL shortening service Alphabet Inc., Google's holding company which trades as "GOOG"...
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    photographs are sent as reply tweets TwitPic URLs are already short, making it unnecessary to use URL shortening Anyone with a Twitter account was eligible...
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  • dispute resolution services. .gs is a common domain for URL shortening services or general URL shortening. Examples of use include: brook.gs (Brookings Institution)...
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  • preposition, it became popular to craft memorable URLs called domain hacks that take advantage of this; URL shortening/redirection services and torrent aggregators...
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    Metcalfe launched a URL shortening service with the domain name vb.ly, which was described as "the Internet's first and only sex-positive URL shortener." The...
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    service so.cl. Oracle Corporation used the domain hack ora.cl as a URL shortening In the Hurricane Electric report from May 2012, it appears as IPv6 enabled...
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  • software Email alias, a forwarding email address URL shortening, where a (short) URL redirects to a longer URL Alias Ali (1939–2014), Malaysian politician...
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  • "unsavory information" about the targeted individual. JTRIG developed a URL shortening service called Lurl.me to manipulate and collect intelligence on social...
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  • used for configuration of website-access issues, such as URL redirection, URL shortening, access control (for different web pages and files), and more...
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    "graphics library" or Gloucestershire. In December 2009, Google released a URL shortener service using the domain hack goo.gl. The service was shut down...
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  • that spell words ending in st, such as bur.st or ho.st. It is used for URL shortening domains like The Washington Post's wapo.st, and PlayStation's play.st...
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  • development and scheduled to be discontinued in the future: Google URL Shortener – URL shortening service. Started to turn down support on March 30, 2018, was...
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