Monday, October 5, 2009

Cli.gs (URL Shortener) to Shut Down

Another URL shortener is shutting down (first Berman Post: Tr.im Shuts Down, Bit.ly May Come to the Rescue). Cli.gs is a founding member of 301Works (Berman Post: URL Shorteners Try to Fight Dead Links). The main reason cited is the economics of the site which is a money loser. No word if Bit.ly or Twitter will try to step in and save this one, but the company has expressed some interest in selling.

http://blog.cli.gs/news/cligs-shutting-down

"It is with great sadness that I have to shut down Cligs. On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics.

The forwarding data will be retained so that forwarding can continue for at least till the end of November; after that, there are no guarantees as to how long the service will continue to forward the short URLs to their destinations.
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More at http://mashable.com/2009/10/04/cli-gs-shut-down.

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