About AX.ag:

What ist this site for?

AX.ag allows users to shorten and share links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing so much easier. This is useful in many circumstances e.g. in email clients that break long URLs. AX.ag can be accessed through our website, bookmarklets and an open API for developers.

Watch sites which other users have compressed before you. Browse through the freshest ones ;-)
Because of security matters, AX.ag provides a website preview via thumbnail. So you can see the site before clicking on a shortened link.

just a few uses and advantages for AX.ag

• Shorten web addresses for emails, forum posts, blogs etc. which cannot handle long URLs and might wrap them, making them unclickable
• Lower the character count when texting web addresses to a mobile phone
• Hide the real URLs of affiliate links from visitors to your site
• Obscure your real email address from bots which harvest them to spam (enter an address like mailto:myaddress@myisp.com). Note that this feature does appear to be browser dependant so such links may not work in every browser
• Circumvent protections on sites which don't allow direct links to a competitor's site (if you are violating a site's terms you do so at your own risk)
• Clean up bookmarks for social bookmarking sites or sites with low character limits like Twitter