Having all the URL shortening sites that have been emerged recently and even those kind of services that enable you to make your own, an idea comes in mind that you should take a look back at some link-shrinkers that are legitimately useful.

So, without further adding anything else let me present you a big list of ways by which you can create very small URLs:

Bit.ly:

This is still one of the best link shorteners that we find around. For tracking the traffic to your shortened link it scores points, and it also let you see if anyone else has made a bit.ly link to the same URL.

U.nu

It is a fairly recent entry havinga super-short base URL, and also gives you a bonus of generating links that you can easily read out loud to someone or you may also type out from scratch.

Awe.sm:

Awe.sm is now offering its clients the facility of creating a custom URL shortener, which is based on its own service that’s not too shabby either.

Tinyarro.ws:

This URL shortener uses unicode symbols for having its short URL even more shorter and also a kind of cool-looking URLs.

SHUURL:

It provides a security to your shortened links. This is done by it by showing users a thumbnail of the site that you linked to before that they click through.

1link.in:

It gives us an opportunity to open multiple sites with just one shortened link. A list of the links that are included can be seen by the users, and then there is the option to open one at a time or open all of them in different tabs.

Tr.im:

This is my personal favorite site among the list. It is on the shorter side of short URLs, with it you can tracks stats, and moreover it lets you to post your links to Twitter with just one click.

NSFW.in:

This link shrinker is designed for sharing those types of links that are not safe for work.

It comes with a unique feature and that is a warning page, in case the person with whom you’re sharing your link with doesn’t want to see it after all.

BurnURL:

BurnURL gives you the offer of social sharing options for your short links, so with it you can easily Twitter, Facebook, Digg or Reddit them.

DiggBar:

When the DiggBar was first launched it was the source of much controversy, but it continues to be one of the best ways by which you can share your Digg links.

TinyURL:

TinyURL is considered to be the original link shortener, and still we can say that it is one of the best. Aside from being the default for Twitter, it also keep up with the new kids by adding the ability by which you can customize your links.

Su.pr:

Su.pr is a link shortener for StumbleUpon‘s link.