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November 12th301Works: Preserving your shortened links
The Internet Archive has just announced 301Works.org, an initiative to maintain all our shortened URL links for posterity. Quite a few shortening services have joined the party, most notably industry *cough* leader bit.ly.
In short, each service regularly uploads their shortened URLs and their expanded counterparts to IA, who holds the data in escrow. Should any of these services cease operations, IA will assume redirection responsibilities for that domain. It’s an elegant solution to a meaningful problem, one I’ve taken on previously.
