I visited ShrinkMyLink.com today and here’s a snippet of the message left by their CEO.

"On November 5th our entire network was temporarily taken offline for over 8 hours because a ShrinkMyLink user has posted a link to an illegal and very offensive website.

For several hours we were working with the FBI and our upstream providers to ensure that the relevant information pertaining to this criminal activity was successfully extracted, archived and secured. Unfortunately, due to government policies and the importance of preserving the evidence intact, our servers had to be temporarily disconnected from the Internet.

As you can imagine, this outage — while completely out of our control — has cost us thousands of dollars in lost revenue, not to mention losses that cannot be interpreted monetarily (i.e. our customers’ confidence, frustration of their users)."

I feel its better to pay money to have your own redirection service with cheap web hosting a few free scripts.

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