tr.im R.I.P.

tr.im R.I.P.
tr.im is no longer accepting URL shortening requests via its website. May we respectfully suggest that you choose one of the many other wonderful alternatives available, listed herein.

The decision is based on waving the white flag on a never ending battle with spammers that relentlessly abuse tr.im. Their abuse results in never-ending termination threats from hosting providers, and the constant irritation of manually deactivating links well after they have served their purpose.

Please understand that this does not affect any software that has tr.im available within it. tr.im's API is available, and redirections are working normally.

If you have tr.im embedded within any software please remove it. We would never just turn tr.im off and affect installed software and users unaware, but we would like to shut down the API and redirection service by the end of 2010, from the time of this writing, April 2010. This should give everyone plenty of time to transition to other services that can economically justify operating a URL shortener, or don't have the volume for this to be problem.

tr.im has always been no man's land: not interesting enough to justify continuing, but too well known with a great name for what it does, to escape constant abuse.

All the best.
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