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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why n1.to shorten your LONG URL?
2. What's Anonymizer , how to?
3. What's Custom URL , how to?
4. What's Privacy Code, how to?
5. What's Safe Check?
6. How does Phishing and Malware Protection work in n1.to?
7. How does n1.to work with redirections?
8. What is a Web Forgery? What is Phishing?
9. What is an Attack Site? What is Malware?

1. Why n1.to shorten your LONG URL?

not like other shorten URL service, we're unique!
easy to use First, our automatic shortened URL only use same type letter, just like:pure-number(11,22,33), PURE-CAPITAL LETTER(AA, BB, CC) or pure-lowercase letter(aa, bb, cc), and shortened url are all on one row at QWERTY keybaord.For such reason, you can easy use our automatic shortened URL at computer or your iphone.
Second, you also can custom URL your like in your mind.
more safely our shorten url service will do some safe browsing and phishing check, avoid your computer harmed.
anonymous checked link anonymizer, prevent your browsed site from appearing in the server logs.

Don't hesitate, cut and paste a long url, then click "Shorten it!" now!

2. What's Anonymizer , how to?

Anonymize your URLs to prevent your site from appearing in the server logs of referred pages as referrer. The operators of the referred pages cannot see where their visitors come from any more.

3. What's Custom URL , how to?

The optional "custom URL" setting allows you to specify your own easy to remember name instead of the short made up identifier made by the system. For example mysqldoc (which turns into http://n1.to/mysqldoc) if you were making a link to the MySQL documentation.

4. What's Privacy Code, how to?

Because they are so short, anyone can guess the n1.to urls. Indeed, the mathematically inclined will easily be able to figure out how the ids are allocated! For example a typical url would be http://n1.to/jx.
If you want to a user from "guessing" your URL, you can add a "privacy code" to your url. If your code is "secret", the url would instead be http://n1.to/jx-secret.
Then even if someone just randomly tries jx, it won't reveal the real url because it's missing the privacy code.
Of course if you are really concerned about who can see the page it should be password protected or possibly not even on the public internet at all!

5. How does Phishing and Malware Protection work in n1.to?

Phishing and Malware Protection works by checking the sites that you visit against lists of reported phishing and malware sites. These lists are automatically downloaded and updated every 30-60 minutes.

6. What's Safe Check?

Short links are becoming the prefered vector to spread spam, malware, phishing attacks, etc. The main reason is that the visitor does not see the final URL when it clicks on a short link. so we do check blacklists of suspected phishing and malware pages from Google Safe Browsing API and Phishtank database.If your URL can't through this safe check, our system will automatic create a short url with privacy code.

7. How does n1.to work with redirections?

n1.to follows all redirections and saves the final URL. For example, if http://mysite.com/abc.html actually redirects to http://www.othersite.com/site.html, we use the final destination http://www.othersite.com/site.html. We only check final address, and the short link will redirect to http://www.othersite.com/site.html .

8. What is a Web Forgery? What is Phishing?

Web Forgery (also known as “Phishing”) is a form of identity theft that occurs when a malicious Web site impersonates a legitimate one in order to trick you into giving up sensitive information such as passwords, account details, or credit card numbers. Phishing attacks usually come from email messages that attempt to lure the recipient into updating their personal information on fake, but very real looking, Web sites. More information on phishing can be found at the Anti-Phishing Working Group, and there are a number of examples and resources available at the Wikipedia Phishing page.

9. What is an Attack Site? What is Malware?

Malware is software designed to harm your computer or steal your personal information without your knowledge. Attack Sites are Web sites that try to infect your computer with malware when you visit. These attacks can be very difficult to detect; even a site that looks safe may be secretly trying to attack you. Attackers will often hack a site to turn it into an Attack Site, and sometimes the Web site's owner won't even know that this has happened. You can learn more about Attack Sites and malware from stopbadware.org, a partnership among academic institutions, technology industry leaders, and volunteers committed to protecting Internet users from threats to their privacy and security caused by bad software.

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