There’s nothing like a social networking URL involving more than 20 numbers to make a user yearn for something easier to remember, and on Monday Google announced that it’s begun to deliver just that.

When I first saw a shortened URL I was naturally suspicious. Working seven years for a security startup will do that to you. Though it hasn’t become a major security threat, yet, I think that ...

Confusion over a federal ruling on Internet addresses for city and county governments has caused a tempest. Although the furor is dying down and misunderstandings are being corrected, grumbling among ...

It's best to look at this issue from a technical point of view. I believe the W3C has rules out that URLs have to be "urlencoded" which means that special characters (and spaces are special characters ...

I honestly never heard of this but Google's John Mueller told someone that they do not need to worry that Google will consider new URLs that are close to the same URL name as an old URL to transfer ...

URLs seem to grow longer and longer every year. Part of this is due to domain names getting longer, and a lot of it is due to SEO (search engine optimization) changes ...

Services that convert long, cumbersome URLs, such as those found in mapping directions, to short URLs are publicly exposing the original URL. Original addresses can be obtained through brute-force ...

Let’s say you’re sharing a blog post from your website, or a microsite for a new contest. Your first thought is probably, “How can I make sure as many people as possible click on this link?” Your next ...

Malicious URLs are now rampant problem according to a study which found they are contained in an average of one in every 61 emails. Mimecast’s latest Email Security Risk Assessment study found the ...