Youtu.be Gets Its Own URL Shortener (Though it's not exactly the shortest out there)

[the_poet]

URL shorteners were thought to have lived their heyday earlier this year when every other startup was in the link shortening business. After a while though, it became clear that there was simply no space for all of them and with no_url_shorteners the unchallenged leader in the market things looked settled. Last week though, things changed dramatically as both Google and Facebook entered onto the scene with their own take on URL shorteners. And it's not over yet, YouTube has also come up with its own shortener, and this one too is slightly different than the others.

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[kedaar]

utu.be would have been shorter.

 

[the_poet]

utu.be would have been shorter.

And better!

 

[lzy]

And better!

Why would that be better? Remember all the UTube.com, YouTube.com hooha? :tri: Makes much more sense to use youtu.be instead of causing even more confusion with utu.be. :imho:

 

[the_poet]

Simply because utu.be is 2 characters shorter than youtu.be (and 'short' is, or should be, all that an url shortening service should be concerned with )

 

[Samui]

I like youtu.be - and I hope it takes off for YouTube links. I hate seeing no_url_shorteners links and having no idea what is on the other side of it.

 

[wussadotcom]

Why would that be better? Remember all the UTube.com, YouTube.com hooha? :tri: Makes much more sense to use youtu.be instead of causing even more confusion with utu.be. :imho:

lol.. see this. confuse indeed
Utube.com - Online Videos | Visit utube.com

 

[Ronald Regging]

I remember a few years back when every domainer and his grandmother had a URL shortening service... Seems like the major players need to pay more attention to sites like Namepros.com, because obviously we know where the f#$# it's at, years before everyone else!

 

[lll]

^ yes but does every top 100 site need a url shortner? lol
i dont think so but they got the $ to toss around so why not i guess :\

 

[Ronald Regging]

^ yes but does every top 100 site need a url shortner? lol
i dont think so but they got the $ to toss around so why not i guess :\

Well, I think they are mostly used for sites where people can update their status, with links, like on Facebook and Twitter. These status boxes are usually limited to a small amount of characters, so in that case, it makes sense I guess. Idk, I don't really use those sites much and I'm not sure that I've ever used a URL shortener, so I'm not the best one to comment on it's usefulness, lol.

 

[lll]

^ yea i see right now anyway youtu.be is just a redirect to youtube.com lol

 

[DnEbook]

i think youtu.be is a cool hack .......nearly as good as my worldne .ws

 

[DubDubDubDot]

I remember a few years back when every domainer and his grandmother had a URL shortening service... Seems like the major players need to pay more attention to sites like Namepros.com, because obviously we know where the f#$# it's at, years before everyone else!

Most domainers are not strong developers, thus why URL shortening services are popular within this segment along with other projects with a low bar of entry such as directories and forums.

 

[Janine]

YT.me is better thank youtu.be right? >.<

 

[.NEET]

They took a while to launch their shortener, it's been over 6 months since they acquired youtu.be.