It's the end of Cligs as we know it

Cligs URL shortener to shut down! Unfortunately news has been released that another URL shortening service is due to come to an end. These services are becoming a major part of the Internet, especially with social media sites such as Twitter, but as the owner of Cligs testifies;

"Short URLs are a feature, and are definitely not a business on their own."

A post on the Cligs Blog yesterday (October 4th, 2009) read;

"It is with great sadness that I have to shut down Cligs. On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics. The forwarding data will be retained so that forwarding can continue for at least till the end of November; after that, there are no guarantees as to how long the service will continue to forward the short URLs to their destinations. Shortly (in a few days), I’ll be deploying a mechanism to export your data. It is almost done and just needs a bit more testing before I’m comfortable releasing it." (to read the full blog post click here)

So what does this mean for the users of Cligs? Another shortening URL service will soon receive a large number of subscribers and traffic, are they ready? Can anyone make a business out of shortening URL's? We're not sure what the answers are, but one things for certain, we're sad to see the end of Cligs and now have to choose another URL shortening service.