1.MeaningfulURL.com looks like another URL redirection or shorten service, so what big deal?

MeaningfulURL.com is a functional service for those who have special needs and purposes with the web addresses. There are many URL shrinking services, MeaningfulURL.com is just NOT ONE OF THEM. MeaningfulURL.com do shrink your long URLs, however, the prime service of MeaningfulURL.com is offering you a meaningful URL instead of the original nonsense URL which in most cases are also a longer web addresses.
So please do not consider MeaningfulURL.com is ANOTHER KIND of tiny url service, if you just need a shorter web address that there are many alternated services you may choose of.

2.What is the major difference and advantage between MeaningfulURL.com and other URL services?

MeaningfulURL.com wants to give you who need a meaningful and memorable URL that you can send to other people to express what you want to say in the first place. For example, you might want to send a birthday card to your buddy John, in most cases, you go to an ecard web and submit an ecard to send to. Usually, your buddy John will receive an email from the ecard website telling him that there is a birthday card waiting for and please click the blah blah link...., you must have done it many times.
Now how about your friend John received an email from you directly, telling him that you wish him happy birthday and suggest him to visit the URL: "http://happy-birthday.to/John" , is it a better way to show your appreciation? We have dozens of meaningful URLs like that for you to choose with.

3.Most of this URL services are FREE, why you reserve some PREMIUM URLs to charge people who want to use them?

You should easily to see why MeaningfulURL.com does not offer a long term or lifetime URL services? If someone else has registered happy-birthday.to/John earlier then you do and keeping it forever, does it mean that you have no chance to say happy-birthday to your friend whose name is also John?
Most of our services are free, however, we do have some premium URLs that will charge you a small fee for a limited time. The fee is supporting our most free services and prevent people who might abuse or spam on our services.