Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

A URL shortener allow you to take long links, like https://www.google.com/search?q=g.vu&rlz=1C1CHBF_frFR917FR917&oq=g.vu&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOjIGCAEQRRg5MgYIAhBFGDwyBggDEEUYPDIGCAQQRRg8MgYIBRBFGDwyBggGEEUYQdIBCDIwODZqMGo5qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 and turn it into an easily shareable link, like g.vu/baa. And with our offers, you can turn it into YOURNAME.g.vu/video that is easily shareable on social networks, email, sms, ... or even by voice.

Most of Unicode characters are allowed, like non-latin alphabets (japanese, arabic, cyrillic, chinese ...), special accentuations on character or even most of the emojis 👍. And they can be mixed with latin character as well, so i🥰pasta would be a valid subdomain to choose. Everything that can be encoded as Punycode is available, see here for more information : Punycode Wikipedia

Yes ! Please note that if you use special char for your name, such as emojis 😊, you should be able to have email redirection like mail@😊.g.vu, but your destination email address may mark your mails as suspicious, as it is quite unusual to have special characters in email address. Add your chosen redirection email as a contact in your destination email to avoid that.

Yes, this is possible with Premium offer. With this offer, you can also set up a catch-all email address ( leaving the alis empty ) that will take emails to [email protected] to your Gmail address.

Yes! Just add a + or a ! at the end of the link. For example, to preview link g.vu/baa go to g.vu/baa+

When you input a link to put on your pictures, if it is not a link from g.vu it will be reduced automatically and added to the picture you upload. If you have an account, you have more options to personalize the link. Also, if the name on your offer contains special chars, like chinese, korean, arabic, japanese .. characters or even emojis it will be displayed on the picture. All you need is copy/paste, save or share the resulting picture.

Yes, all you need to do is to drag or bookmark the following link to your favoris, then when visiting a website you want to shorten, click on the link from your favoris : g.vu - shorten this url