A barrage of URL shortening websites

I had a few unused domain names so I decided to put them to use as URL shortening websites.

In case your unfamiliar with the concept, a URL shortening website takes your long website addresses or URLs and shortens them into short and search engine friendly URLs. A URL shortening site saves you from having to use long URLs that can break in your emails, forum posts and IM messages.

So here are my newly formed URL shortening sites. Use anyone of them to shrink your URLs:

TC7 URL shortening

TE9 URL shortening

SI9 URL shortening

BS2 URL shortening

FI9.org URL Shortening service

Every site has the same web 2.0 design but in different colours. So if you like blue visit bs2.org or if you prefer red then go to te9.org .

I use my own script for all these sites. The programming logic is simple. The site accepts a long URL and INSERTs it into a database. A short URL is made by appending the primary key of the newly inserted row to the short url site's domain. When a user visits a short URL the primary key is received by the script as a query string and it simply looks up the relevant URL in the database and redirects the user. Throw in a bit of mod_rewrite goodness to get rid of the query string and you have yourself a URL shortening site.

I'll be adding more sites soon as I have a number of unused domains!