Here's a few of the great benefits:

1) Get a short, professional looking & easy to remember URL!
2) Make sure visitors get to YOUR site and not your affiliates.
If you have a url that has your affiliate or other tracking ID in it then it's known that some people may cut out or change it when visiting your URL.
3) Features such as Mirror Management can greatly benefit a webmaster who uses mirrors to balance traffic or provide redundancy. You can use zURL.cc to divert traffic to mirrors according to weights you assign, or generate a list of your mirrors, so you can always have a permanent mirror list for visitors to choose from!

No, it will not be effected at all. In fact, you need to keep your existing URL because we will be redirecting your shortURL address to that location. We are a URL redirection service, not a hosting service. If you ever change your real website address, you can easily update your shortURL account to redirect to the new location.

The short links that we provide will never expire.

Yes. zURL.cc does not allow any users to abuse our system. We do not allow any link creation for child pornography, hate speech, obscenity, or anything that is considered illegal by US or Canadian law. Any account caught using zURL.cc for illegal purposes will immediately be banned and reported the appropriate authorities.

No we do not provide webspace. You will need an existing website to use our service.

Yes! & Yes! We are always brainstorming, and looking for new ideas. At the moment, we are working on 2 new features...soon to be released...but to stay ahead of the competition, they can't yet be announced.

If you've never changed your assigned password, then you can find your assigned password in the shortURL welcome email. Otherwise go to the password retrieval page, enter your email address and we will email it to you.

".cc" suffix is the top-level domain for the Cocos Islands. It is commonly used as an alternative to the ".com" suffix for commercial Web sites. Although zURL.cc resides in the U.S., the use of a .cc domain allowed for a very descriptive and short name. Our typical shortened URL will average only 20 characters long - most other shortening services found on the Web commonly exceed 20 characters.

If Custom box is left blank, the default link created will be 5 random characters. But you have the option of entering a keyword or phrase into this box to give the URL a specific alias or nickname. For example, you are shortening a link to a news article and to make it easy to remember you put "BBCNews" into the Custom box. The URL that results is http://zURL.cc/BBCNews. If the nickname is too short or already taken, then zURL.cc will add additional characters to this nickname.

Have instant access to link shortening anywhere you go on the internet! First drag and drop zURL.cc! onto your Firefox toolbar. Once zURL.cc is on your Firefox toolbar or in your Bookmarks, you can shorten from the site you are visiting. A tiny link will be created for the URL currently in your address bar, with just a mouse click. You won't need to copy and paste that URL into our site first, it will be done automatically.

No toolbar showing? In your browser's menu, Go to: View , then: Toolbars, and checkmark "Bookmarks Toolbar".

If you don't like to enable your Toolbar you can add it to your regular bookmarks and select it anytime you want to shorten the url you're viewing. Right Click this link: zURL.cc!

Then:


Now anytime you want to make a Short URL just select it from the bookmarks menu and it will send you to shorten URL instantly generating a Shorten URL for what ever page you're currently viewing.

If you want to enable your Bookmarks Toolbar you can do so by going to: View - Toolbars and checkmark "Bookmarks Toolbar".

If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact us anytime : Contact Us