URL shortener · TinyURL
What is a tinyurl.com link?
Short answer
Not by itself. TinyURL only shortens — the affiliate question is decided by the URL underneath.
Check a tinyurl.com link
Paste it below. We follow every redirect server-side and show the destination, the network and every parameter — without opening anything in your browser.
How TinyURL works
TinyURL is one of the oldest shorteners still running and needs no account, which makes it popular both for harmless sharing and for hiding links people would not click if they could read them.
- Because anonymous links need no account, there is no publisher identity attached to a TinyURL link.
- TinyURL offers a preview mode: prefixing the code with preview. shows the destination.
- Expanding the link is the only way to know whether affiliate parameters are waiting behind it.
The domains TinyURL uses
Any of these in an address bar means the same thing. Subdomains count too: the part in front is usually an account number.
- tinyurl.com
tinyurl.com: common questions
Does TinyURL add affiliate tracking?
No. It redirects and nothing more. Any affiliate parameters you find belong to the destination URL.
How do I expand a TinyURL safely?
Use the checker above, or TinyURL's own preview. prefix. Neither requires you to load the destination page.
Why do phishing links use TinyURL?
Because it needs no account and hides the destination. That is a reason to expand short links before clicking, not a reason to distrust every one of them.
Other redirects you might be looking at
Or start from the full affiliate link checker, which lists every network and shortener we recognise.