Therefore URL redirection can help users who have bookmarks.

URL redirection is sometimes used as a part of phishing attacks that confuse visitors about which web site they are visiting.

They are run by the same company as smartdots.com, and are given away as URL redirections.

There are several reasons to use URL redirection:

Because URL redirection sites are added to the blacklist whenever abuse occurs, you may create problems for future editors by using them.

One way involves URL redirection.

So I used register.com to register the new domain name, and then used register.com's "free" URL redirection service.

The software incorporates programming features such as a macro language, variables, a transclusion system for templates, and URL redirection.

Hyperlinks involving URL redirection services are frequently used in spam messages directed at blogs and wikis.

A major drawback of some URL redirection services is the use of delay pages, or frame based advertising, to generate revenue.

In January 1998, Bigfoot PermaWeb, a free URL redirection service was added.

However, many resources may use URL redirection or DNS pointers to provide mapping between the name spaces.

GNU IceCat also provides warnings for URL redirection.

There exist services that can perform URL redirection on demand, with no need for technical work or access to the web server your site is hosted on.

By setting the refresh time interval to zero (or a very low value), this allows meta refresh to be used as a method of URL redirection.

The browser supports URL redirection, which allows QR codes to send metadata to existing applications on the device.

It is also possible to specify an alternative Uniform Resource Locator and use this technique in order to URL redirection the user to a different location.

No-IP was launched in October 1999 offering free dynamic DNS and URL redirection.

These tools include website defacements, URL redirections, denial-of-service attacks, information theft, web-site parodies, virtual sit-ins, and virtual sabotage.

Functionality provided by WSGI middleware may include authentication, logging, URL redirection, creation of sessions, and compression.

Examples include Web site defacements, URL redirection, denial-of-service attacks, information theft and dumping, web site parodies, typosquatting, and virtual sabotage.

Recently, URL redirection services have taken to using AJAX as an efficient, user friendly method for creating shortened URLs.

Dyn offers paid domain registrations, recursive DNS, email forwarding and redirection, network monitoring and URL redirection.

Others believe it to be a result of URL redirection from the old White House site (under President Bush) to the site for President Barack Obama.

Many URL redirection systems like TinyURL or SnipURL/Snipr also use base 36 integers as compact alphanumeric identifiers.