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Los Angeles-based Ad.ly, a start-up that brokers social media endorsements including Mr. Sheen's, declined to reveal how much Internships.com was paying for the endorsed tweet, except to say that it was the highest in Ad.ly's history.

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Pingdom found that the average page load time for the URL shorteners varied slightly depending on the geographic region in which it was used (For example, Bit. ly's average page load overhead, or "the extra time a URL shortener adds when accessing a site," according to Pingdom, was between 100 and 200 ms in North America, but around 400 ms in Europe).

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The statement went on to claim that vb. ly's management was "contacted on numerous occasions to investigate these concerns."

Who's the master of a .ly domain? Rob Pegoraro 2010

Bit. ly's bookmarklet also provides near-instant reporting of how many people clicked on your link, and how many people got to that page through other bit. ly links.

Faster Forward: Short review of Google's goo.gl address shortener Rob Pegoraro 2010

(Note that The Post uses bit. ly's services to generate "wapo. st" shortcuts; .st is the country code for the African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, which I'm told is a perfectly nice democracy.)

Faster Forward: Short review of Google's goo.gl address shortener Rob Pegoraro 2010

Bit. ly's bookmarklet also provides near-instant reporting of how many people clicked on your link, and how many people got to that page through other bit. ly links.

Short review of Google's goo.gl address shortener Rob Pegoraro 2010

The country code at the end of goo. gl -- it's the top-level domain for Greenland -- doesn't have the crummy political associations of New York-based bit. ly's Libyan top-level domain.

Short review of Google's goo.gl address shortener Rob Pegoraro 2010

(Note that The Post uses bit. ly's services to generate "wapo. st" shortcuts; .st is the country code for the African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, which I'm told is a perfectly nice democracy.)

Short review of Google's goo.gl address shortener Rob Pegoraro 2010

VB. ly's issue was apparently its use to point people to not-safe-for-work, "sex positive" content (something bit. ly's terms of service prohibit).

Who's the master of a .ly domain? Rob Pegoraro 2010

The country code at the end of goo. gl -- it's the top-level domain for Greenland -- doesn't have the crummy political associations of New York-based bit. ly's Libyan top-level domain.

Faster Forward: Short review of Google's goo.gl address shortener Rob Pegoraro 2010