Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you've come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.

is.gd is a free service for shortening web addresses and other URLs. This is useful in many circumstances e.g. when sending an address to a phone via SMS and character count is limited.

As an example you can turn:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=louth&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=33.219383,38.803711&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Louth,+United+Kingdom&z=14

into something much shorter like:

http://is.gd/kCe1qR

You can also pick a specific meaningful shortened address if you want to, such as:

http://is.gd/mytown

Ow.ly - Shorten urls, share files and track visits.
 

Bitly helps you shorten, share, track, and analyze your links.

Welcome to the web's cutest URL shortening service. If you have a really loooong URL, just paste it in the text field below, and we'll milk it, creating a moourl for you. It lasts forever, It can be easily copied to your clipboard, and It's really cute.

Cligs tracks the traffic going through your links. Not just that, Cligs has unique tracking and redirection features that give you the best insight:

Free short URL redirection service with real-time link tracking

Free URL redirection service. Turns a long URL into a much shorter one.
 

Some web addresses (URL) are very long and complicated. doiop creates for you a short URL with a keyword you choose, making it easy to remember or give away. This link will not break in emails and never expire.

Free service that helps make all your links more manageable, shareable and trackable. Create a free account today!
 

URL Shortening with Advanced Analytics, Click Tracking and Content Recommendation.
 

Turns a long URL into a much shorter one.
 

Make a long URL notlong For example, here is a long URL which breaks because it gets wrapped in email messages:   http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=2801+Ocean+P ark+Blvd&city=Santa+Monica&state=CA&csz=Santa+Monica,+CA+90 405-5200&slt=34.018220&sln=-118.457158&name=&zip=90405-5200 &country=us&&BFKey=&BFCat=&BFClient=&mag=6&desc=&cs=9&ne wmag=8&poititle=&poi=&ds=n   The notlong.com service turned the above long URL into this notlong URL:   http://misratha.notlong.com

Make a long url not long:
For example, here is a long URL which breaks because it gets wrapped in email messages:

http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=2801+Ocean+P ark+Blvd&city=Santa+Monica&state=CA&csz=Santa+Monica,+CA+90 405-5200&slt=34.018220&sln=-118.457158&name=&zip=90405-5200 &country=us&&BFKey=&BFCat=&BFClient=&mag=6&desc=&cs=9&ne wmag=8&poititle=&poi=&ds=n

The notlong.com service turned the above long URL into this notlong URL:

http://misratha.notlong.com

Anybody who uses this notlong URL will get redirected automatically to the original long URL.

Take a long url and shorten it with fyad.org.  Simply insert the url into the box to the right and click Fyad It! and it will give you the shortened url.  Drag this link up to the links toolbar to make any site have a shorter url:  fyad.org

Safe.mn addresses the two main criticisms to URL shorteners: security and transparency.  All links are thoroughly verified for viruses, malware, phishing, malicious content, session stealing, cross-site scripting attacks, etc. Any suspicious link gets flagged, and users are warned about it. Safe.mn is also the most transparent URL shortener service: all links generated by Safe.mn are publicly available, and updated regularly.