youtube.com vs. youtu.be… What’s the difference?
URL shortening is a technique that makes it possible to take an existing URL, modify it in a way that will make it substantially shorter, and still have it direct to the same web page.
The way this is achieved is very simple. Every shortened URL basically uses a redirect which links to the initial web page that has a long URL.
It’s common for redirects to contain domain names that are shorter than the original ones. This is done not only for the purpose of shortening the URL, but sometimes even for creating something that is known as a domain hack which can be achieved by connecting two or more adjacent domain levels that form a name, word or phrase.
For example: inter.net uses the generic top level domain .net in order to complete the word ‘’internet’’, and youtu.be uses the country code top level domain for Belgium .be in order to complete the name of ‘’YouTube’’.
Sources and references:
– Youtube.googleblog.com: ‘’Make Way for youtu.be Links’’
https://goo.gl/uduF3b
– Cis.upenn.edu: ‘’What Is a URL?’’ https://goo.gl/mb35bq
– Differencebetween.net: ‘’Difference Between Youtube.com and Youtu.be’’ https://goo.gl/NTzD2L
– PCWorld: ‘’Link Shortening Mania: Goo.gl, Fb.me and Bit.ly Join Fray’’ https://goo.gl/Xiuqa5
– Independent: ‘’Things get sh.rt on the web with a new URL shortening trend’’ https://goo.gl/UnSbLc
– Wikipedia:
‘’URL shortening’’ https://goo.gl/yQiLoH
‘’URL’’ https://goo.gl/RszXpb
‘’Domain Hack’’ https://goo.gl/7tsgf5
B-Roll:
– Videezy:
‘’Free Youtube Url Address Stock Video Clip In HD’’
https://goo.gl/SGPpLx
– Pond5:
‘’Two Lumberjacks Sawing Felled Tree’’ https://goo.gl/kz69QW
– Videvo:
‘’Push Mower Slow Motion’’ https://goo.gl/gh9QTn
‘’Office Electric Pencil Sharpener’’ https://goo.gl/R9CvGJ
– Pixabay:
https://goo.gl/1aLw2j
https://goo.gl/SgVDRM
https://goo.gl/oepf2N
– Vimeo/Bitly:
‘’Why Optimizing the Link is Key to Customer Experience’’ https://goo.gl/JR1uY1
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Sorry shorties, but I made a mistake in this video. In the parts where I have the youtube.com and youtu.be URLs displayed next to each other, the shortened youtu.be URL should be written as https://youtu.be (that is without www.)!
As much as I hate these kinds of errors, it needed to be acknowledged and corrected! Luckily the part where I show how to manually shorten a youtube video URL is correct! Now if you'd excuse me, I have a few sleepless nights ahead of me, before I get over this editing tragedy.
I'm lucky you were here since i didn't know about URL shortening and thought it was a virus link, (yeah im stupid)
understood! Thanks a lot.
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https://youtu.be/JZw2BaAw30E
is this link fake I got banned in discord cuz of this link
On YouTube I clicked one of those links in the comments of a video,I have a phone and the link sent me to a video unavailable. So is it bad or is it fine?
Nice
Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland aber wir schaffen das.
👍👍👍
I was so worried that my ip was gonna get leaked
You should have made the intro be a transition from channel hotmonkey to chm
YES YES YES GO GO GO SO ,ORDERED. I WANT MORE! DA PRINCE
PERFECT DA PRINCE. FULL CONFIDENCE
I thought I clicked a scam link because it said youtu.be instead of youtube
Can anyway I can changea my video of my channel with youtu.be linked to YouTube there's some issue I am facing plz help ???
so it’s not a scam link?
Links to both: http://www.youtube.com
http://www.youtu.be
You to be
Youtu.be/MfzY50bUMyY
thanks, i really thought i clicked on an ip grabbing website designed to look like youtube.
https://youtu.be/4kS9c_p5Svg)
I thought that Youtu.be was a Scam!
I'm Glad that someone Explained it!
"Who memorises youtube urls"
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ :
nice ending
is youtu.be safe?
But what happens if you tap or click on this links will anything drastic happen to you? Since thier popping up everywhere nowadays by bots
Nice
Tested and unfortunately YouTube doesn't have a shortened URL for YouTube channels. Tested and works for itself and videos but not channels.
https://youtu.be/xZgZLOq1JKU
Came here thinking to hear about a live of CNCO but I guess not it said live 😮
https://youtu.be/CVsbTCdTyAM
"who memorizes urls?"
i memorized the wifi password.
The reason why i click on this is beacuse i wanna know if youtube.be is safe to use. I dont want to take a risk. ???
i just type yt…
good nice Video
0:10 fin.
YouTu.be/@booba