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Cligs is Throwing in the Towel on its URL Shortening Services

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URL shortening service Cligs has announced that it will be closing up shop later this month. The service will stop accepting new URLs on Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT. The owner of Cligs indicated that there would be a tool available at some point for users to export their data.
 
Cligs reported there were a number of reasons for the move. Of the chief reason the site says, “There comes a point when you need to actually hear the message the market is telling you, and not just listen and ignore it.” The owner of Cligs noted that since it was not winning the market, devoting additional time and money to it made less sense.  This tends to remind one of the recent almost-closure of Tr.im a few weeks back. In a follow up post, the Cligs owner said he would be open to selling the service.

This is all partially your fault.  You use Bit.ly, don’t you?

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avatarNever heard of it...

What the hell is cligs?!? 

~Goose

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avatarNever even heard of it

I never even heard of it harder. Never had any problems with tinyurl, so that's what I use. I don't know who was the first to come out with a URL shortening service, but there's seriously too many of them. That's all the Internet needs, more dead links from when these also-rans start collapsing.

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avatarNever even heard of it.

Never even heard of it.

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avatar i use nozing!

 i use nozing! No-zing!

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