About IQURL Cloaking Service
IQURL service's main purpose is to ease forum/blog/Twitter posting. Another reason to use this service is to cloak your URLs: you can mask your affiliate links from visitors who like to cut affiliate info from sponsors' links + hide site addresses from search engines (for example - to prevent "googleing" information about your site in case if it was bought/sold). The last, but not least, reason to use this service is redirect tracking facility which can show you the origins of your visitors based on their IP addresses - up to country and town (with external service).
This site provides you with an easy-to-use, yet very powerful, interface with custom tags, bulk URL submission, password-protected links, both IP- and password-based authorization, links editing and statistics include IPs and sources of your visitors (up to country/town tracking - with external whois base).
This service authorization system is based on IP addresses: you can track your links and statistics in the "URLs" section even if you added them without registering.
In case you wish to edit your links, you have to register. After registration you'll be able to edit all links added from your computer (from your computer's IP address actually). Note: registered users may overtake URLs added by non-registered users in cases where they use the same computer (IP address) - so if you are working from an office or internet cafe, you better register to claim all your URLs (to do so just login and edit all your URLs one by one - after you click the "save changes" button, the URLs become yours).
If you want to add the same URL as you've added before, the system will find it out and output the same short URL. For privacy reasons, the system won't search for the same URL submitted by different users (others persons custom tags may not suit your needs). In case you want to assign custom short tag to your URL, the system will ignore the same URLs stored earlier with different tags and instead store/output a new value.
The same options apply for bulk URL submissions as for single URL submission: custom tags (will be stored as tag, tag1, tag2, tag3 and so on), password protection and expiration date.