Safe.mn, URL shortener

Safe.mn 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://safe.mn/2.

Safe.mn 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://safe.mn/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://safe.mn/2, go to http://safe.mn/2/i.

Safe.mn 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://safe.mn/1/i.

Safe.mn 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 Safe.mn.

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