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2. TinyURL - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyURL

   For each URL entered, the server adds a new alias in its hashed database and returns a short URL. According to the website, the shortened URLs will never expire. TinyURL offers an API which allows applications to automatically create short URLs. [2] Short URL aliases are seen as useful because they are easier to write down, remember or distribute.

3. Permalink - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permalink

   Permanence in links is desirable when content items are likely to be linked to, from, or cited by a source outside the originating organization. Before the advent of large-scale dynamic websites built on database-backed content management systems, it was more common for URLs of specific pieces of content to be static and human-readable, as URL structure and naming were dictated by the entity ...

4. URL - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL

   An Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI) is a form of URL that includes Unicode characters. All modern browsers support IRIs. The parts of the URL requiring special treatment for different alphabets are the domain name and path. [18] [19] The domain name in the IRI is known as an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN).

5. Bitly - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly

   Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New York City. Bitly shortens 600 million links per month, [4] for use in social networking, SMS, and email. Bitly makes money by charging for access to aggregate data created as a result of many ...

6. Help:Link - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link

   Use a vertical bar "|" (the "pipe" symbol) to create a link which appears as a term other than the name of the target page. Links of this kind are said to be "piped". The first term inside the brackets is the title of the page you would be taken to (the link target), and anything after the vertical bar is what the link looks like for the reader ...

7. Help:URL - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:URL

   However if you want to link to an outside website, or to certain specially generated Wikimedia pages (such as a past version of an article), it is necessary to provide the full URL. This is done using external link syntax .