A new access ban decision has been made for link shortening services in Turkey. Bitly’s bitly.com domain name, Cuttly’s cutt.ly domain name and T2M’s t2m.io domain name were blocked from access by the Istanbul 7th Criminal Court of Peace on the grounds of illegal betting, with the decisions dated May 5, 2026. The decision files for link shortening services have been announced. The bitly.com domain name was included on the Bitly side in the decision list.
The access block for Bitly was recorded under decision no. 2026/4089. The shared information did not include a separate file number for bit.ly, Bitly’s short link domain name; The decision was announced via the bitly.com domain name. The bitly.com domain name of the link shortening service Bitly was blocked by the decision of the Istanbul 7th Criminal Court of Peace on the grounds of illegal betting, such as Cuttly and T2M.
While Cuttly was blocked by 11 different decisions taken on the same day, T2M was blocked by 3 decisions and Bitly by 1 decision:… https://t.co/gcn8K3DAHf pic.twitter.com/RBc27kBEtt— EngelWeb (@engelliweb) May 7, 2026 Cuttly was the service that entered the access block list with the highest number of files on the same day. for cutt.ly domain name 2026/4039, 2026/4050, 2026/4054, 2026/4056, 2026/4060, 2026/4071, 2026/4100, 2026/4107, 2026/4109, 2026/4114 and Decisions numbered 2026/4116 were recorded.
Thus, there were 11 different access blocking decisions for Cuttly dated May 5, 2026. On the T2M side, there are three separate decisions for the t2m.io domain name. Access to the service was blocked with decisions no. 2026/4026, 2026/4054 and 2026/4056. The reason for these decisions was stated as illegal betting. Bitly, Cuttly and T2M are among the services that convert long internet addresses into short links. These platforms also offer tools such as custom link names, brand domains, QR code generation and link performance analysis.
Therefore, the access block concerns not only the home pages of the services, but also the connection flows operating through the domain names within the scope of the decision.
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