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zURL is a URL shortening service, a web service that provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs.

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zURL is a URL shortening service, a web service that provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Oguz Gunyol, a web developer, launched the service in June 2014. This service created for Turkish users.

The zURL homepage includes a form that is used to submit a long URL for shortening. For each URL entered, the server adds a new alias in its hashed database and returns a short URL such as http://zurl.in/76h in the following page. If the URL has already been requested, zURL will return the existing alias rather than create a duplicate entry. The short URL forwards users to the long URL.

zURL offers an API that allows applications to automatically create short URLs. API's how to documents are this external link.

Short URL aliases are seen as useful because they are easier to write down, remember or pass around, are less error-prone to write, and also fit where space is limited such as IRC channel topics, email signatures, microblogs, certain printed newspapers (such as the .net Magazine or even Nature), and email clients that impose line breaks on messages at a certain length.

zURL allows users to create custom, more meaningful aliases. This means that a user can create descriptive URLs rather than a randomly generated address. For example, http://zurl.in/wikipedia.