About Short URL Cloaking Service
The itShrunk Short URL service's main purpose is to ease forum/blog/Twitter posting. Another reason to use this service is to cloak your URLs: you can mask your affiliate links from visitors who like to cut affiliate info from sponsors' links + hide site addresses from search engines (for example - to prevent "googleing" information about your site in case if it was bought/sold). Last but not least is our redirect tracking facility which can show you the origins of your visitors based on their IP addresses - up to country and town (with external service).
This site provides you an easy-to-use yet very powerful interface with custom tags, bulk URL submission, password-protected links, both IP- and password-based authorization, link editing and statistics, including IPs and sources of your visitors (up to country/town tracking - with external whois base). Plus we provide multiple domains to use when you shrink to further customize your URL including the following domains: it1.us, myfav.biz, myfav.us, 12ju.mp, netju.mp and of course the original itshrunk.com.
This service authorization system is based on IP addresses: you can track your links and statistic in "URLs" section even if you added them without registration. Registered Users can "claim" URL's created when they are not logged in providing they where created from the same IP address.
In case if you wish to edit your links you have to register. After registration you'll be able to edit all links added from your computer (from your computer's IP address actually). Note: registered users may overtake URLs added by non-registered users in case if they use same computer (IP address) - so if you are working from office or internet cafe you better register to claim all URLs (to do so just login and edit all your URLs one by one - after clicking "save changes" button URL become yours).
If you want to add the same URL as you've added before - the system will find it out and output same short URL. For privacy reasons the system won't search the same URL submitted by different users (others' custom tags may not suit your need). In case you want to assign a custom short tag to your URL - the system will ignore same URLs stored earlier with different tags and instead store/output new value.
All the same options described above apply for bulk URL submissions as for single URL: custom tags (will be stored as tag, tag1, tag2, tag3 and so on), password protection and expiration date.
The itShrunk Short URL service checks all URL's that are submitted against the Surbl.org Spam URL list and will reject any URL's on this list. We do bypass this check for registered users. This bypass is by no means a license to spam because we will ban you if you Spam regardless of your registration status. We also check all URL's against PhishTank.com service so that phishing websites will not be able to hide behind an itShrunk URL.