Editing URL redirection (section)

==== History ====
The first redirect services took advantage of [[top-level domains]] (TLD) such as "[[.to]]" (Tonga), "[[.at]]" (Austria) and "[[.is]]" (Iceland). Their goal was to make memorable URLs. The first mainstream redirect service was V3.com that boasted 4 million users at its peak in 2000.  V3.com success was attributed to having a wide variety of short memorable domains including "r.im", "go.to", "i.am", "come.to" and "start.at".  V3.com was acquired by FortuneCity.com, a large free web hosting company, in early 1999.<ref name="2Died" /> As the sales price of top level domains started falling from {{US$|long=no|50.00}} per year to less than {{US$|long=no|10.00}}, use of redirection services declined. With the launch of [[TinyURL]] in 2002 a new kind of redirecting service was born, namely [[URL shortening]]. Their goal was to make long URLs short, to be able to post them on internet forums. Since 2006, with the 140 character limit on the extremely popular [[Twitter]] service, these short URL services have been heavily used.