Many times in any given day I find myself forced to send links to others some of which are excessively long and usually will break in email clients, news readers and other tools.  There have been many solutions available which I have used over the years to make the urls shorter, the most recent launch http://url123.com has to be one of the nicest implementations I have seen yet, and is done fully in .NET. 

Very clean interface with allot of features including the ability to track all of your URLs and it even allows for you to create your own sub domains.  For example, hit http://robc.url123.com/myblog which of course I have pointing to my current blog.  Since I can manage these links it’s a nice way to alias URL’s which change often and keep my top list of URL’s super handy (like those pesky MSDN url’s).

4 Comments

• none (Jim C ) said Saturday, July 10, 2004 9:36:00 AM

  Very nice, thanks a lot for sharing.

• Ashutosh Nilkanth said Saturday, July 10, 2004 10:29:00 AM

  Try www.tinyurl.com as well. Its cool!

• William Brady said Saturday, July 10, 2004 10:17:00 PM

  Ashutosh,
  
  You should check out this URL123 site. Tinyurl isn't even in the same league anymore. I'm with URL123. Plus it's .NET!
  
  *thumbs up*
  
  

• Chris said Monday, July 19, 2004 6:25:00 AM

  Same result - I tried editing and saving the link, too. I replied to your support email, and it bounced as undeliverable. Feel free to take this offline with me directly if I can help (I know why the email bounced but I don't want to talk about it here).