SHRT : New Method of URL Shortening including Relative Word of Target URL

Abstract

Shorten URL service is the method of using short URL instead of long URL, it redirect short url to long URL. While the users of microblog increased rapidly, as the creating and usage of shorten URL is convenient, shorten url became common under the limited length of writing on microblog. E-mail, SMS and books use shorten URL well, because of its simplicity. But, there is no relativeness between the most of shorten URLs and their target URLs, user can not expect the target URL. To cover this problem, there is attempts such as changing the shorten URL service name, inserting the information of website into shorten URL, and the usage of shortcode of physical address. However, each ones has the limits, so these are the trouble of automation, relatively long address, and the narrowness of applicable targets. SHRT is complementary to the attempts, as getting the idea from the writing system of Arabic. Though the writing system of Arabic has no vowel alphabet, Arabs have no difficult to understand their writing. This paper proposes SHRT, new method of URL Shortening. SHRT makes user guess the target URL using Relative word of the lowest domain of target URL without vowels.※ "본 연구는 미래창조과학부 및 정보통신산업진흥원의 대학 IT연구센터 지원사업의 연구결과로 수행되었음"

bit.ly/malicious: Deep dive into short URL based e-crime detection

“…13 PhishTank is a public crowdsourced database of phishing URLs where contributors submit suspicious URLs and volunteers label them as phishing or legitimate. 14 The PhishTank API uses an HTTP post request and returns the status of a URL in standard JSON format. VirusTotal is an aggregated information warehouse of malicious links and domains as marked by 52 website scanning engines and contributed by users.…”

“…Unlike their study which focused on multiple URL shorteners, our research is an in depth analysis of the effectiveness of a single URL shortener. Another scheme was proposed by Yoon et al in year 2013 about using relative words of target URLs in short URLs [14]. This can give hints to user to guess the target URL, making it comparatively safe from phishing attacks.…”