Go2.gs, URL shortener

Go2.gs addresses the two main criticisms to URL shorteners: security and transparency. All links are thoroughly verified for:

• Phishing
• Malicious content
• Adware, Viruses, Malware, etc.
• Questionable content: sex, gambling, violence, hate speech, weapons, illegal file download
• Dangerous ActiveX
• Dangerous file type
• Cross-site scripting attacks (XSS)
• Session stealing

All links are checked again every 6 hours.

Any suspicious link gets flagged, and users are warned about it. For example, try the URL http://go2.gs/2.

Go2.gs is also the most transparent URL shortener service: all links generated by Safe.mn are publicly available, and updated regularly..

We maintain a public list of all the URLs shortened by Safe.mn. Anybody can get it, and make a public image of it. This guarantees your Safe.mn links can always be converted to the original URL. Get it at http://go2.gs/static/safemn.zip

You can get all the details about a short link by adding /i to it. To get information about the short link http://go2.gs/2, go to http://go2.gs/2/i.

Go2.gs provides detailed information about who is accessing a short links: total number of clicks, visitors by country and referrer, etc').

Add /i to any short links to get access to these statistics: http://go2.gs/1/i.

Go2.gs provides a full API to shorten long links and track short links (XML, JSON, text).

We also have a bit.ly-compatible API to make it easier to switch from bi.ly to Go2.gs.

Free libraries are available for PHP, Perl, Python and jQuery.