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Welcome to elfURL, where we make giant URLs shorter. Some say our elves make the smallest URLs around. Our URLs are not 'tiny' but they certainly are small. Why use our elves? They provide free stats, rel-tags and del.icio.us tags – that’s why!

A PURL is a Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. Functionally, a PURL is a URL. However, instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet resource, a PURL points to an intermediate resolution service. The PURL resolution service associates the PURL with the actual URL and returns that URL to the client. The client can then complete the URL transaction in the normal fashion. In Web parlance, this is a standard HTTP redirect.

Website URLs are long and difficult to remember. SnipURL allows you to "snip" your long URLs into small, friendly and persistent links for sharing and remembering. Free! [And more]

To make a long story short: Shorl makes long URLs short.