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Short Web address market shrinks: tr.im trimmed

The market for shrinking Web addresses is itself shrinking.The Web-address shortening service tr.im is shutting down after about a year in operation.

Its founder wrote in a blog post announcing the closure that because of its growing popularity, the service needed "significant development investment and server expansion to accommodate."
No one would take over the site from Nambu Network, even for a "token amount of money," Nambu co-founder Eric Woodward wrote.
Although tr.im is no longer letting users shorten Web addresses, existing tr.im links will work through the end of the year. At that point, Nambu will decide whether to extend that deadline.

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