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by bux93 741 days ago
You can't see from the site who the owner is. Could be a library. Could be a music club. Could be the Gates foundation. An art collective.

Running the website (in this case, an url elongator) is not required to be an objective in the articles of incorporation.

Nevertheless, an URL elongator strikes me as funny, and providing fun for free is surely for the good of humankind.