Guide · Trust and privacy
How long does a shortened link last?
Every link here has an expiry: an hour, a day, a week, or a year for premium links. This guide explains why links expire at all, what happens at the moment they do, and how to keep one alive.
The lifetimes on offer
- An hour: a flash link — a download that lives as long as a meeting, a queue that closes with the day.
- A day: a link for one event: the menu of tonight, the form that closes at midnight.
- The free maximum: what the operator sets as the longest free lifetime (a week by default).
- A year: what a premium pack buys, renewable with another credit.
What happens at expiry
The link stops opening to its destination. The address answers with a page that says the link expired, so a reader who arrives late learns the truth instead of guessing. The address itself is retired, not reassigned: an expired code is never handed to a different destination, because an address that once answered is an address somebody may have written down (RFC 9110 calls the equivalent HTTP status 410 Gone — the resource was there and is deliberately no longer available).
Keeping a link alive
A premium link can be renewed before or after it lapses from the key page: paste the pack key and the link's creator token, and one credit extends the lifetime. The date on the result page is the honest one — set the reminder from it rather than from memory.
Questions
How long does a free link last?
Up to the operator's free maximum — a week by default — or an hour or a day if you choose a shorter one.
How long does a premium link last?
A year from the moment the pack is paid, renewable with another credit from the same key.
Can a link last forever?
No. Every link expires; there are no perpetual links. A premium link renews, which is as close as the service gets.
Can I reuse an expired link's address?
No. An expired address is retired permanently: it answers with its expiry page and is never reassigned.
Sources
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