tinyurl.com is great.

pps -- just type in "short URLs" in google and you'll get a nice big list. I just did and theser are some of the links:

www.shorturl.com
bit.ly
tiny.cc

etc, etc.

Hi Alexa, and the alternative is?

I use cligs to shorten extremely long affiliate url's for a site where hosting is captive (I know) bit.ly looks to be a good option in these circumstances as it's the default Twitter url shortner and I can't see that being downgraded anytime soon.

Tony

I'm aware of that Alexa, trouble is I need to forward about 400 links so buying a domain name for each is a little problematical. I have a number of scripts that allow me to do the /recommends thing but they were less than reliable last time I ran them.

I appreciate your input. Was really looking for a recommendation to a service being successfully used by other Warriors.

Tony

bit.ly is backed by millions of venture capital... It's not going anywhere.

Still looking for support info for cligs. Have visited their Twitter feed but it hasn't been updated since March - time to move on.

Tony

The owner was going to shut it down in October of last year but I guess he sold it?

So not sure whats going on here but I don't think I'd keep using it after I knew it could disappear at anytime.

Cligs was bought/taken over by the bookmarking service Mr Wong in December last year. Maybe they've given up on it.

Tony