These are some of the most popular services on the net that allows you to shorten long URLs.

Here is the test URL I used and the shortened URL by each service is given on the side

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&mqma
p.x=300&mqmap.y=75&mapdata=%252bKZmeiIh6N%252bI
gpXRP3bylMaN0O4z8OOUkZWYe7NRH6ldDN96YFTIUmSH3Q6
OzE5XVqcuc5zb%252fY5wy1MZwTnT2pu%252bNMjOjsHjvN
lygTRMzqazPStrN%252f1YzA0oWEWLwkHdhVHeG9sG6cMrf
XNJKHY6fML4o6Nb0SeQm75ET9jAjKelrmqBCNta%252bsKC
9n8jslz%252fo188N4g3BvAJYuzx8J8r%252f1fPFWkPYg%
252bT9Su5KoQ9YpNSj%252bmo0h0aEK%252bofj3f6vCP

TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/24f65
NotLong http://ballistic.notlong.com (custom URL)
URLCutter http://urlcutter.net/ballistic (custom url)

For Not Long a password and Username is provided so that you can edit the URL in future. All of these sevices have easy to remember names and most have a custom URL maker.

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