MetaMark.net
Title
Metamark - Free Short URL redirection - Make long URLs short
Description
Note: Metamark is accessible to all versions of every browser. However, this browser may not support basic Web standards, preventing the display of our site's design details.
Who and why?
Over at perl.org we needed a "short url" type service we could trust to work for years, years and yet more years to come. There are a bunch of similar services; but not operated by us, how could we trust they would keep running? While testing we also found too many odd bugs and design decisions in the other similar systems to really trust them. So there we were; reinventing yet another wheel. :-)
Do Metamark links expire?
The Metamark urls expire after five years or two years after the last usage - whichever comes later. However, if a link is never used, it will expire after two years. This should mean that as long as a link is on a public page, some search engine will visit it and keep it alive.
