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URLTea dead?

By Giania • Apr 18th, 2008 at 12:05 am • Category: Internet Toys
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URLTea used to be my favorite URL shortening service. Emphasis on used to be. For (and I’m guessing here) I’d say the better part of a month, every time I have attempted to make a shortened URL or visit the site, it’s been coming up error, 404, you’re looking for what again?

Does anyone know what became of URLtea? Their last post to Twitter was 6 months ago. Their Google code page doesn’t have any news. Alex King seemed to predict its downfall but none of the commenters have anything helpful to add.

URLtea creators and primary supporters! Where have you gone? Will you be bringing the site back?

I liked your tea towel background and your awesome bookmarklet tool. Don’t let me suffer in a sea of plain jane tinyurls!

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10 Responses »

  1. Korayem on April 21st, 2008 at 10:04 am:

    Till this today it’s down!! is it gone forever!? I can’t live without my TEA!

    Hmf…back to tinyurl

  2. hackd » urlTea down and possibly out on April 24th, 2008 at 4:21 am:

    [...] RandomKitty via Alex King These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

  3. RKNet Blog… thing » Update: URLTea NOT Dead?? on April 30th, 2008 at 1:59 pm:

    [...] just as its downtime was unannounced, so too is its resurrection. Out of habit I went to shrink down a url using my URLTea bookmarklet [...]

  4. me on June 9th, 2008 at 11:55 am:

    Is it down AGAIN?!!

  5. RKNet Blog… thing » URLtea Bites It Again on June 9th, 2008 at 1:14 pm:

    [...] astute commenter on my previous “URLTea Dead” post just tipped me off to the site being dead, [...]

  6. Jarrod on June 19th, 2008 at 10:36 am:

    urlkiss.com is a suitable alternative

  7. Giania on June 19th, 2008 at 4:10 pm:

    Indeed it is Jarrod! I like the features in there. This deserves a writeup. Thanks for the head’s up.

  8. archer on August 13th, 2008 at 10:54 pm:

    urlkiss is no an alternative because it doesn’t offer what only urltea offered; the ability to append whatever you like to the url

    resurrect the tea!

  9. Giania on August 13th, 2008 at 10:57 pm:

    Ah but that’s not true.

    I just used URLKiss, and one of the options below the shortened URL is:
    Add a Note
    You can provide additional information about this URL by placing a question mark at the end and adding your own note, like this:
    http://urlkiss.com/01v?your_note_here

    It’s also got previews

    URL Previews
    Let recipients know where they’re going by using
    http://preview.urlkiss.com/01v
    or
    http://p.urlkiss.com/01v

  10. Jauder Ho on January 26th, 2009 at 9:18 pm:

    There is also http://bit.ly/

    I like it as you are able to get statistics on the shortened url.

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