Tr.im URL Shortener to Shutter After Failing to Find Buyer

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 10, 2009 - 8:10am.

Vancouver, Canada - Nambu Networks has announced that it will shutter its Tr.im URL shortening service, after finding zero interest from potential buyers, the company said in a blog post.

"Tr.im has thousands and thousands of users, creating tens of thousands of URLs per day. But, we were a little surprised to learn, *no one* wanted to take it over," the company wrote.

"We quietly contacted a number of people within the Twitter development world, and nobody wanted it in exchange a token amount of money. No one perceived any value in it, or they wanted to operate a shortener under a differently branded domain name."

Links shortened using Tr.im will continue to redirect until at least Dec. 31, 2009.

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