Snip URLs - Reduce long URLs

Via TVC Alert from Genie Tyburski at The Virtual Chase
I spotted through her unusual URLs pointing to the domain snurl.com
- also at snipurl.com -
that there is a service to "snip" long URLs and reduce them to a specific small URL
which can then under certain circumstances be better used for linking.

The SnipURL website has the motto "Snippenty snip snip with your long URLs!" and offers a free service for snipping long URLs "into small, friendly and persistent links for sharing and remembering".

Register for SnipURL service here.

You can also drag the "Snip This!" link to your browser bar as a "bookmarklet" for quick snipping.

There is also e-mail spam protection for the snipped URLs.

As a registered user you can also keep track of your snipped web pages.

More features are also described.

This is a very useful service particularly since website services can truncate URLs by wrapping them to a new line and thus breaking longer URLs, which can make them "unclickable" - a problem that I have had up to now, for example, with the LexiLine group that I moderate on Yahoo Groups.

This problem should now be a thing of the past with the SnipURL service.

Please note, based on my experience, that there can be glitches at SnipURL: Sometimes I got the message that the website had already been snipped, along with its snipped URL (which was not true) and sometimes I got an error message that the nickname I had entered was already taken, even though I had entered nothing, or had entered a nickname so contrived that it could not have possibly already been taken. This occurred right after my registration and at the beginning of the snipping process. Later, the snipping worked - perhaps the server needs to time to register the registration information? In any case, do not give up if does not work immediately. It did work later for me and continues to work now.

For purposes of illustration, here are the snips of two blogs and my other websites:

http://snurl.com/2r57 - gives The LawPundit Blawg

http://snurl.com/2r5j - gives The PunditMania Weblog

http://snurl.com/2r4y - gives The InternetLawWeb Website

http://snurl.com/2r5p - gives The Andis Kaulins Website

http://snurl.com/2r5o - gives The Megaliths.co.uk Website

http://snurl.com/2r65 - gives The Megaliths.net Website

http://snurl.com/2r5k - gives The LexiLine Website

http://snurl.com/2r69 - gives The LexiLine Learning Website

http://snurl.com/2r5u - gives The LexiLine Learning Website in Germany

http://snurl.com/2r5z - gives The Dainas Website

http://snurl.com/2r61 - gives The Isandis Website

http://snurl.com/2r63 - gives The Tauta Website