Tag Archives: url shortener

Wed 11th May 2011
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
HootSuite Adds .Li Shorteners But Defends Use of .Ly - Service adds back up URLs but says people need not worry about .ly. That’s wrong. Social networking platform HootSuite has added alternatives to shorteners that use Libya’s country code domain name .ly after users expressed concerns about relying on the Libyan .ly domain name. In addition to Ow.ly and Ht.ly, users can now use Owl.li and Htl.li. .Li is the country code domain name for Liechtenstein. At the same time the company defended the stability of .ly, ... read more ...
Mon 6th September 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
GoDaddy’s X.co URL Shortener Launches - X.co officially launches. A couple months ago I wrote about how GoDaddy had snagged x.co with plans to use it as a URL shortener. Late last week I noticed that @Godaddy was using x.co in its tweets; and now the service is officially open to all. x.co has a lot of the features you’ll find in most URL shorteners, such as robust analytics. You can easily create an x.co link by pasting a longer URL in at x.co. GoDaddy has been pushing .co domains and x.co will help ... read more ...
Wed 30th June 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
GoDaddy to Launch x.co URL Shortener - Coming soon, x.co URL shortener. Domain name registrar GoDaddy is releasing a new URL shortener at x.co, according to a tweet by company founder and CEO Bob Parsons: This is likely a .co “founder’s program” deal. .Co has already done a deal with Twitter for t.co, which will be Twitter’s own URL shortener services. .Co is Colombia’s country code top level domain name, which is currently being liberalized. The domain registrar is one of ten accredited ... read more ...