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Originally Posted by Bamb0
I thought this was another spam thread!!! (Until I saw who the poster was  )
Another good one: www.tinyurl.com |
A lot of "short URL" providers bomb you with spam, either ads or popup advertisements. The only one I used which I liked really, was Ulimit.com who have some decent ones and don't mess up your site with an overdose of ads. That said, some of their most used domain extentions (such as .tf) are under dispute now between the current and former registry...
I believe .co.nr, new.fr, and .de.vu (the latter even providing free webspace too) have a good reputation too, and so do .uni.cc and .eu.org but those require to use an own DNS as you cannot use the providers' servers to simply set up forwarding. Afraid.org (odd site name, I know) also has some good ones, but again you need to know how to do the DNS settings yourself.
In the past there were some other good ones such as .co.tv, .co.be, .biz.ly, ... but many of those are poorly managed now or on the brink of ceasing operations.
I'd say that most such services also are not exactly making sense domain-wise. Imagine you run a website on your favourite athlete,
www.lionelmessi.co.at.tt would not exactly make sense or work out for mouth-to-mouth advertisement. While Ulimit worked fine for me, other than .be.tf I'm not that wild about their extentions.
The only really good one I'd say, is .eu.org (.co.tv has the potential if it wasn't so unstable). eu.org has been around for over a decade too. The only downside is that the helpdesk is terrible: many simply don't respond to mails, and some helpdesk addresses on the website are out of date. So I guess .eu.org makes a good extention but you need to work out everything yourself DNS-wise.
Knowing a .com is < 10 USD a year, and some extentions are ever cheaper (eg .com.es) , why rely on something like TinyURL, JoyNIC, and other similar ones?