Choose your own web address for the petition

How to choose the address

1. On the create page, open Advanced settings at the end of the step Your petition.
2. The proposed address is shown after the site address under Petition URL. Press Edit next to it.
3. Type the address you want and continue. If it is already in use or reserved, the form says so and you can try another.

Allowed characters are lowercase letters a to z, numbers, hyphens and underscores. The address can be up to 200 characters long, but the point of choosing it yourself is to make it short.

Changing it later

Choose Settings in the petition menu and edit the Petition URL field. The old address is not thrown away: it keeps pointing at your petition, so links already printed, posted or shared do not break. That matters once a petition has been shared, because you cannot take a link back out of a group chat.

Short addresses for posters and flyers

A petition can also have extra short addresses. Choose Create short web address in the petition menu and pick something very short, for example the name of a street or a campaign. People who use it are redirected to the petition's current address.

One petition can have up to 20 short addresses. That lets you print one address on the poster, use another in a radio interview, and still see every visitor arrive at the same petition.

Who it helps

Anyone who has to tell people the address out loud. A campaign that is collecting signatures at a market stall, a school parents' group printing 500 flyers, an association reading the address into a local radio show. A long address copied from a browser bar survives none of those. A short one does.

Good to know

• The address is part of the site domain for the petition's language. A language version of the same petition has its own address on that language's site.
• Some addresses are reserved for the site's own pages and cannot be used for a petition.
• If you protect the petition with a password, remember that the address is not behind the password. An address that repeats the petition name tells anyone who sees the link what the petition is about, so choose a neutral address for a petition that should stay private.