URL Forwarders / URL Redirecting

URL Redirection is a technique that enables to view a web page from more than one URL. This means a same web page is available thought a number of different URL if each URL redirects itself to some particular URL.

On the World Wide Web, there exist huge numbers of web sites that can take a long URL and give you back a shorter URL. Among these, there are many free websites too, that let you shorten your URL without any registration. Actually, these web sites create a new URL that in turn redirects itself to a long URL. Since these sites forward a click from one link to another, they are also known as URL Forwarders. Some of these websites also do sub-domain forwarding.

Following is a list of such sites in alphabetical order. Many of these are free:

• BabyURL -- Check: http://www.babyurl.com/
• Beam.To -- Check: http://beam.to/start.asp
• dephine.org -- Check: http://dephine.org/
• durl.us -- Check: http://www.durl.us/
• MakeAShorterLink -- Check: http://www.makeashorterlink.com/
• Metamark Shorten Service -- Check: http://metamark.net/
• MY OWN Networking -- Check: http://www.my-own.net/redirection.php
• notlong.com -- Check: http://notlong.com/
• Orz.net -- Check: http://Orz.net/
• shorl.com -- Check: http://www.shorl.com/
• shrinkster.com -- Check: http://shrinkster.com/
• snipURL -- Check: http://snipurl.com/index.php
• TinyClick.Com -- Check: http://tinyclick.com/
• Tinyer.com -- Check: http://tinyer.com/
• TinyURL -- Check: http://tinyurl.com/
• URL Cutter -- Check: http://urlcutter.com/
• urlSNIP -- Check: http://urlsnip.com/

Besides, there are a lot more such websites available that shorten your URL.