Do URL shortener expire?

[THAIPHUKET]

Could be a big problem for my writings. I used often  other than goo.gl. Goo.gl links are still good after 5 years ( did not test much further) While tiny.cc 3-5 year old links and others return a friendly                 ..................SORRY MYSTERY LINK........................

Clearing Cache is of no help.. after so much time.

 

Any way of retrieving  the original sites?

[JaiMaai]

are you sure the original sites are still alive?

[Oxx]

This may help https://archive.org/details/301tnc

[THAIPHUKET]

That is interesting. It means that tiny.cc can dump links at it discretion without warning. With what methodology ?

Have not tried to retrieve my links, its some work.

That leaves goo.gl as my choice 

 

 

[THAIPHUKET]

No luck, guess because I didn't register at the time

Very helpful lesson. To be able to create your own link made it special to goo.gl

 

But to kill a link without a word......................