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PornMD · 03-26-2009, 02:04 AM

Just curious as to what people here thought about this. Seems like TinyURL is now 1 amongst dozens of link/URL shortening services and even besides Twitter I'm seeing more and more usage of them. A while back I had bought a name kind of as a purpose of collecting it and maybe using it vs. reselling that is f'in golden for link shortening in the truest sense of the function, but I just don't see how those sites make money.

My only thought is to reserve the shortest URLs and/or dictionary words/popular phrases and charge money for them (like what new domain extensions are doing on domains now), plus I've seen sites that do premium service that includes robust stats on visitors to the link and whatnot. I have no idea if many people are paying for that or not. My own experience has been go on the site, make the link, leave. *shrug*

03-26-2009, 02:04 AM
PornMD Mainstream Businessman Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: San Diego Posts: 9,291	Link/URL shortening services - becoming ever more popular but is there $$$ in it? Just curious as to what people here thought about this. Seems like TinyURL is now 1 amongst dozens of link/URL shortening services and even besides Twitter I'm seeing more and more usage of them. A while back I had bought a name kind of as a purpose of collecting it and maybe using it vs. reselling that is f'in golden for link shortening in the truest sense of the function, but I just don't see how those sites make money. My only thought is to reserve the shortest URLs and/or dictionary words/popular phrases and charge money for them (like what new domain extensions are doing on domains now), plus I've seen sites that do premium service that includes robust stats on visitors to the link and whatnot. I have no idea if many people are paying for that or not. My own experience has been go on the site, make the link, leave. shrug __________________ Want to crush it in mainstream with Facebook ads? Hit me up.