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URL-Shortening What is a URL-shortener? Well, imagine your're surfing a website like Amazon or eBay and would like to recommend an interesting page from this sites to your firends, may it be through a social networking site like Facebook, Twitter, a forum or even the good old E-Mail . Normally you would copy the adress (URL) of the webpage you want to share and paste it into the message for your friends. But there's a problem - many complex websites have annoying long URLs like http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0055DRGB/ref=s9_pop_gw_g147_ir03... This would mess your message up and let your messages look like crap. That's exactly where a URL-Shortener like nirl.eu can help you! With this service you can convert long ugly URLs like http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0055DRGB/ref=s9_pop_gw_g147_ir03... into tiny short links like http://nirl.eu/lW so you can easily paste it into any Instant Messenger, Social Network Platform, Forum or E-Mail-Message. This will also allow you to suprise your friends with links to funny websites and hide links to affiliate programs from people who don't like ads :-) Simply paste the long URL in the box above and press enter. Your are also able to create unique and individual links with your favourite linktext. To do so, click "advanced" and fill in your favourite link title. About nirl.eu Of course, there are dozens and hundreds of URL-Shortenes out there, each of them provide their service with different intentions. Basically they all do the same - they turn long URLs into virtually short links. So why should you choose nirl.eu as your favourite URL-Shortener? Well, nirl.eu has always been a privately owned URL-shortening service which was originally set up for the webmaster to have his bookmarks everywhere. Over the time, more and more users have discovered the advantages of nirl.eu - fast, stable and reliable URL-shortening. No more and no less. And because of its simplicity, stable technical environment and its close circle of users it can provide everyone a stable, long-term service. Unfortunately, as all the other URL-Shortening services, we cannot provide you with a service uptime guarantee. But we strive to be a nearly 100% available and long-time-running URL-shortening service for people who don't like one day flys =) So if you decide to use our services, we appreciate that very much, as the one and only goal of the service is to make ones life easyer and more comfortable. Our API As an advanced user you can easily benefit from our simple and stable API. Our script will return the short URLs to every API-Request that is made with the following structure: http://nirl.eu/?api=1&u=http://super-long-url.example.com
Contact us In case our service has been misused for spamming purposes or other abusive activities, please send us a note to abuse@nirl.eu and we will quickly take care of it. |