Whois & Analysis for shorturl.com

URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, is a World Wide Web technique for making a web page available under more than one URL address.

When a web browser attempts to open a URL that has been redirected, a page with a different URL is opened.

Similarly, domain redirection or domain forwarding is when all pages in a URL domain are redirected to a different domain, as when and are automatically redirected to.

URL redirection is done for various reasons: for URL shortening; to prevent broken links when web pages are moved; to allow multiple domain names belonging to the same owner to refer to a single web site; to guide navigation into and out of a website; for privacy protection; and for less innocuous purposes such as phishing attacks.

In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is a part of a main domain.

Overview.

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), commonly informally termed a web address (a term which is not defined identically) is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.

A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), although many people use the two terms interchangeably.

A URL implies the means to access an indicated resource and is denoted by a protocol or an access mechanism, which is not true of every URI.

Thus is an URL, while is not.

URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages, but are also used for file transfer (ftp), email (mailto), database access (JDBC), and many other applications.

Outlook.com is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services from Microsoft.

One of the world's first webmail services, it was founded in 1996 as Hotmail (stylized as HoTMaiL) by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in Mountain View, California, and headquartered in Sunnyvale.

Microsoft acquired Hotmail in 1997 for an estimated $400 million and launched it as MSN Hotmail, later rebranded to Windows Live Hotmail as part of the Windows Live suite of products.

Microsoft released the final version of Hotmail in October 2011, available in 36 languages.

It was replaced by Outlook.com in 2013.

The Register is a British technology news and opinion website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson.

Situation Publishing Ltd is listed as the site's publisher.

Drew Culllen is an owner, Linus Birtles the managing director and Andrew Orlowski is the Executive Editor.