TinyURL.com was the the forever favorite for URL shortening services out there largely because of first mover advantage.

I heard an podcast interview with the creator of TinyURL recently, and surprisingly he doesn’t have any business plan in place other than the Google Adwords text ads placed on the URL creation page.

But this past week, I went looking for other options for easier to remember URL shortcuts. And perhaps even shorter than the 7 characters in “tinyurl”.

Here’s 99+ services out there that give you shorter urls that you can use to forward to friends, post in blog or forum posts, and increase the odds that an URL you reference via email won’t “break” when it’s read by the recipient:

A2N http://a2n.eu/
Auto To http://www.auto.to
Beam.to http://beam.to/
Bit.ly http://bit.ly/
B65 http://b65.us/
CanURL http://canurl.com/
Coin URL http://www.c-o.in
Curious http://curio.us
Decent URL http://decenturl.com/
Demo To http://demo.to
DigBig http://digbig.com/
Doiop http://doiop.com/
dURLus http://durl.us
Dwarfurl http://dwarfurl.com/
EasyURL http://easyurl.net/
EzURL http://www.ezurl.eu/
Facetous http://www.faceto.us/
fhURL http://fhurl.com/
Flingk! http://flingk.com/
Forever As http://www.forever.as
FwdURL http://fwdurl.net
Fly2ws http://www.fly2.ws/
Is.gd http://is.gd/
G8L http://g8l.u
Going To http://going.to
Good To http://www.good.to
HitAs http://www.hit.as/
Hot Redirect http://www.hotredirect.com/
JustAs http://www.just.as/
Key As http://www.key.as
Krunchd http://krunchd.com
LiteURL http://liteurl.net
lnk.in http://lnk.in/
Metamark http://xrl.us/
Minilien http://minilien.com/
MooURL http://moourl.com/
MyURL http://myurl.in/
NanoRef http://nanoref.com/
Ne1 http://ne1.net
Not Long http://notlong.com
Nutshell URL http://nutshellurl.com/
PeaURL http://peaurl.com
Pi URL http://piurl.com/
Redirx http://redirx.com/
RubyURL http://rubyurl.com
Shim http://shim.net
Shorl http://shorl.com/
ShortenURL http://shortenurl.com/
Shoter Link http://shorterlink.com/
Shortlinks http://shortlinks.co.uk
ShortURL http://shorturl.com
Short URL http://url.lotpatrol.com
Get Shorty http://get-shorty.com/shorty
Shrinkr http://shrinkr.com/
ShrinkURL http://shrinkurl.us/go/customurl
Shrtnd http://shrtnd.com
SHurl http://shurl.net/
SimURL http://simurl.com/
Sitelutions http://ByInter.com/
SnipURL http://snipurl.com
Smallr http://smallr.com/
StartURL http://starturl.com
Tight URL http://tighturl.com/
Tiny Link http://tinylink.com
TinyURL http://tinyurl.com
TraceURL http://traceurl.com/
TubeURL http://tubeurl.com/
TuroUS (beta) http://turo.us/
Ulimit http://euro.st
URL bee http://urlbee.com/
URL.co.uk http://url.co.uk
URL Cutter http://urlcutter.com
URLcut http://urlcut.com
URL Hawk http://urlhawk.com
URl.ie http://url.ie
URL Pie http://urlpire.com
URLsnip http://urlsnip.com
Url Tea http://urltea.com
URLvi http://urlvi.be
U76 http://u76.org
Very To http://www.very.to
WapURL http://wapurl.co.uk
X.se http://www.x.se/
YATUC http://yatuc.com
Yep It http://yep.it
301URL http://301url.com
6URL http://www.6URL.com

There are tons more out there — if you know of any more, please add them to our list by leaving a comment below!



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