iOpus' list of the TOP 5 BEST
Short URL Services

Why only five listings? Because we want to list only the best url shortening services on the web which we tested ourselves. Besides, even the listed TOP 5 services are already four more than one really needs. All services are tested to work with the long URLs created by the iMacros for Firefox Social Scripting feature.

TOP	Name	Description
1	TinyURL http://www.tinyurl.com	Available since 2002. Works flawlessly whenever we use it. Very easy to use.
2	NotLong http://notlong.com/	Good service, creates a short url using the subdomain format (YourID.notlong.com)
3		At the monent only two(!) services passed our tests. Want to suggest a service? Please let us know.
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You think you know an EVEN BETTER URL shortening service? Please let us know about it and WHY do you think it is better. The most crucial point we look for in a service is reliability, i. e. it should be available 24h a day and 365 days a year.

Here is a list of services that were suggested to us lately and that are queued for testing:

• --no service queued for testing at the monent--
• Want to suggest a service? Please let us know.

And here is a list of services that we tested recently already and rejected them, i. e. they did not make it into the "iOpus' TOP 5 Best URL Shortening services" list or they were removed from it because their service got worse. Please note that these rejected services might still be good and useful. They simply did not make it into our "TOP 5" list, i. e. they are - according to our opinion and tests - not better than any of the 5 free services in the IOPUS's TOP 5 list.

• http://doiop.com/ - service down
• http://www.shorturl.com - User interface too complicated
• http://www.shorl.com - Fails when (really) long url is used
• http://surl.se/ - Fails when (really) long url is used
• http://makeashorterlink.com - Slow Website
• http://metamark.net/ - Slow Website
• http://www.snipurl.com - Tries to access the clipboard!