How to reclaim a hijacked tinyurl?

How to reclaim a hijacked tinyurl? - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the How to reclaim a hijacked tinyurl? error on your web browser. Problem :

It seems someone has hijacked one of the TinyURLs that was sent out in the marketing communication and it now redirects users to a porn site. Is there anyway we can reclaim the TinyURL?

Solution :

@PeanutsMonkey You didn't really answer John's question. At least it doesn't seem so. You just restated that people end up at a porn site. (Maybe you're just being brief at the cost of clarity.) I'm not sure it's even possible to "take over" an existing TinyURL in the way you're describing.

Use LongURL to find out where the tinyurl is really pointing. It'll also show you if there are subsequent redirects. So if you first see your original URL, and then the porn site, that means the redirect is happening on your end, not via TinyURL itself.

For example I just created this tinyurl by shortening http://apple.com/store which Apple redirects to their preferred location of http://store.apple.com/us and here are the LongURL results showing that there's even an intermediate redirect they put you through.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the redirects, , error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!