How to create a short URL for your fundraising page

So you have your fundraising page. And its URL is something like this: http://pages.teamintraining.org/sj/VineFIrn11/mgavryuchk. Great!

• Can you print put it on your business card? No.
  
• Can you tell it to someone on the phone? No.
  
• Can you remember it yourself and tell it in a private conversation with somebody who wants to make a donation? No.
  

NO, NO, NO

Here I am going to tell you how to make it short and beautiful. Like this one: http://www.tnt-mikhail.com


You will spend about $10 and 20 minutes of your time but you will be able to have a short and nice domain name to use everywhere.

There are two main steps:

1. Register your domain name
2. Configure URL forwarding

Register domain name

1. Go to http://www.namecheap.com and sign up for a free account
   
2. Click "Register Domain"
3. Enter domain name that you want, for example tnt-john.com or .org and press "Search" button.
4. If such domain name is still available, follow the further steps and register your new domain name. You'll pay about $9-10 per year.
   

Configure URL forwarding

1. Click on "My Account -> Manage Domains"
2. Select your new domain
3. On the left side of the screen click on "URL Forwarding"
4. In both lines for "IP ADDRESS/URL" enter your TNT page address like "http://pages.teamintraining.org/sj/VineFIrn11/mgavryuchk"
5. Change "RECORD TYPE" to "URL Frame" for both lines
6. Click "Save Changes" button
   

1. Wait several hours before all these changes are propagated to the World Wide Web.
2. If you like your new domain name - make a donation on Mikhail's page http://www.tnt-mikhail.com :)
3. Forward link to these instructions (http://tnt-short-url.blogspot.com) to your fellow TNT-ers, post in on Facebook, Twitter...