About x10 URL™

About Us

x10 URL™ is a free URL shortening service currently maintained by x10 URL Shortening Services, a virtual non-profit organization led by TheDoggyBrad Software Lab. We strive to offer this URL shortening site as openly and freely as possible, without any distractions or invasion of privacy.

x10 URL Shortening Services on Social Media

• Mastodon (@x10URL)
• Facebook (@x10URLshortener)

x10 URL™'s History

• TheDoggyBrad URL Shortener was founded on June 23, 2023, under the management of TheDoggyBrad Software Lab. It launched with its simple and generic logo that will be replaced on March 24, 2024.
• On October 27, 2023, TheDoggyBrad URL Shortener was rebranded to x10 URL™, still under the management of TheDoggyBrad Software Lab.
• Within the early days of November, dark mode support for the site was added. It received its initial and temporary slogan "Shorten your URLs now!"
• On November 28, 2023, The operation of x10 URL™ was transferred to the newly formed virtual organization, x10 URL™ Shortening Services.
• On November 29, 2023, x10 URL™ became an unregistered trademark.
• On December 9, 2023, more features were added, along with improvements and bug fixes.
• On December 22, 2023, x10 URL™ implemented site-wide enhancements, including an improved dark mode for an enhanced user experience.
• On December 23, 2023, x10 URL™ made significant updates to enhance user compliance and understanding. This includes an improved privacy policy to align with GDPR requirements, a refined terms of service for better clarity, and enhanced grammar and word selection to improve overall user comprehension. PHP codes are improved for faster performance and better reliability.
• On March 24, 2024, x10 URL™ finally received a consistent theme across every pages of the site and improvement of the 404 page. At the same day, x10 URL™ officially uncovers its new logo.
• On March 25, 2024, x10 URL™ received a gray container border sitewide. The same day, it also receives its awaited slogan "We make URLs shorter!" Additionally, some text in the site has been updated for accuracy and literacy.
• On May 28, 2024, x10 URL™ officially started to use Cloudinary's Free CDN service to improve user experience, loading speed and to ease our server resources.
• On June 2, 2024, x10 URL™ launches its official Facebook and Mastodon social media accounts. Within the day, the color inconsistencies in the light mode theme of this site has been fixed via CSS.
• On July 1, 2024, TheDoggyBrad who created the UI for this site officially open-sourced its UI as xUI (learn more below).
• On October 11, 2024, x10 URL™ received an update in the backend to make things faster and we removed the now unnecessary Anti-DDOS measures (x10 Free Hosting now graciously gives Anti-DDOS in the free plan by default).

Our Vision

x10 URL Shortening Services aims to keep x10 URL™ free and open forever, without displaying any advertisements or tracking its users, to avoid privacy invasion. The service is committed to a long-lasting presence.

Our Mission

x10 URL Shortening Services is committed to delivering a free and open URL shortening service without distractions like advertisements, ensuring the privacy of our end-users. The service also aims to provide a reliable link shortening experience for every internet user.

Our Liability

The organization "x10 URL Shortening Services" is not responsible for any damages or unwanted effects resulting from the usage of the services it offers and operates.

Mandate

The organization is mandated to:

1. Offer a free and partially open-source link shortener.
2. Ensure that the link shortener it offers and operates is functional.
3. Ensure that the link-shortening site it offers is privacy-friendly and ad-free.
4. Ensure that the link shortener it offers is not collecting any user data.

Contact Us

For any concerns, you may contact us via our email address at communications@url.x10.bz

Source Code

The base code of this site comes from the "urlshortener" and "xUI" projects by TheDoggyBrad Software Lab. The project's code is regularly updated to match the current functionality x10 URL currently offers. However, some customizations (like security features) by x10 URL are not available in the source code of the said projects. Thus, the "urlshortener" and "xUI" projects of TheDoggyBrad Software Lab are the open-source version of x10 URL.

The source code of the "urlshortener" project is located at: https://github.com/thedoggybrad/urlshortener and its UI which is based on xUI is located on https://github.com/thedoggybrad/xUI.

In an analogy, Chromium is the open-source web browser but Google Chrome is the proprietary version with more features. Whereas, "urlshortener" and "xUI" are like Chromium and x10 URL is like Google Chrome.