Do you hate getting a huge URL in email - only to find it runs across several lines and does not work, leaving you to cut and paste it into your web browser. Well, you do not need to worry anymore! You can turn a giant, ugly URL into a Short URL.
I am glad you asked! There are several reasons why you may want to use this service. Some that come to mind are:
Convert a long uri to a shorter one
This is a pretty obvious one! something that is around 25 characters long is much easier to send in an email or to post in your favourite Forum.
For example,
http://www.digital-images.co.nz/gallery/stats.php?&type=views&sca=1&sal=1&sde=1&tsz=150&ppp=5&
total=-1&addLinksPos=abovecomments
which is 128 charaters long has been reduced to http://tiniuri.com/?f=6 - which is a mere 23 characters long!
Or http://tiniuri.com/f/6 which is even shorter.
Hide your affiliate ID on your website
By making a tiniuri, it does not identify your affiliate ID on your website.
Hide your email address on a website
You can create a tiniuri that is your email address and post it on your website - You will stop "web spiders" harvesting your email address from your site - you will virtually eliminate spam.
Cloak an address
By Cloaking, we mean that the address in the web browser will show up as a tiniuri and not the actual address of the website you are visiting.
This is achieved by "hiding" the original site within a frame. This can at times break and not work as intended if the page you are trying to cloak happens to be a frames page itself.
Does the tiniuri I created ever expire?
We may purge any tiniuri from the database if it has not been clicked on for more than a Year. We will delete any tiniuri from the database that is against the TOS or where we get an abuse report.
This is a free service that is provided "as is" without any warranty or liability. By using this site, you agree to these TOS. We collect and log the IP addresses of the person who creates the tiniuri in case of abuse. It is strictly prohibited to use services provided at this website for spamming or Illegal purposes. Any abuse of the service will result in the tiniuri being disabled, the IP address which created the tiniuri being banned and an abuse report will be made to your Internet Provider. When using the free service, we may insert an advertisment from one of our sponsors before you get automatically re-directed.
