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boutUs is a wiki for and about businesses, organizations, blogs, forums, and really anything or anyone that has a website.

Think of us as your guide to websites (that you can also help build).

AboutUs aims to provide you with both an introduction to sites in the areas you care about as well as a way to share your knowledge of those websites. Currently, more than 7 million people visit AboutUs.org each month.
“ AboutUs dynamically creates pages from publicly accessible information on Web sites, like meta tags and whois information. Once built, the pages - like any wiki - are available to be edited by the company, users, or anyone who visits the site. ”

—NY Times article about AboutUs.org
AboutUs domain pages can include a summary of the website as well as more text about it, relevant topics, its contact information, photos or logos, connections with related websites, YouTube videos... all while linking directly to the website.

As a wiki, information on AboutUs pages can be added to and changed by clicking the edit button... and we encourage you to do so.

Finding information - If you'd like to see what information we have on a given website domain or share your knowledge of it, simply search for the URL (like Example.com) in the Find! box above.

Sharing your knowledge - AboutUs is what it is today thanks to the people who edit and improve it. Please feel free to help build this guide to websites by using the many 'edit' buttons to do anything from fixing a spelling error to adding a paragraph of text or picture. (Click Need Help? for various instructional pages).
edit Our Commitment
“ If you would like to know more about a company behind a domain name AboutUs.org is the place where you should have a look... ”

—Andres of XavierMedia.com on AboutUs.org,
May 2008

In order to protect the integrity of the resource and to engage with fellow editors, AboutUs is committed to reviewing every edit made to its more than 14 million pages.

We also want to be a place where you feel encouraged to contribute and find it easy to do so or learn how. For this reason we have numerous help pages and ways to be contacted.
edit Our Service

Because AboutUs is a highly trafficked guide to websites, an increasing number of business owners want to make sure they have a great page about their website(s) here.

Everyone is welcome to edit their page themselves for free, but for business owners who would like an enhanced page to boost their site's visibility we offer an article creation service. You can see the SpotlightUs Pages our team of writers have created so far on our Spotlight Articles page.

For more information or to sign up click here. If you have any questions give us a call at 1.800.AboutUs (1.800.226.8887) or +1.503.488.5763 and select option 1 (9-5 PST).
“ AboutUs.org has helped me gain the competitive advantage in my very active web market. The article has not only helped boost my rank, but also increased my traffic a ton. I think the service was way under priced, absolutely awesome... Just flat out 200% worth every penny. ”

—Keith Ross of TheNetworkSource.com,
3 October 2008 (view more testimonials)
edit Our Technology

* AboutUs was pre-populated with information about many different websites.
* The thumbnail images are provided by Name Intelligence's proprietary thumbnail service and provide a link to the referred-to site.
* Our CamelCaseing of domain names is a Name Intelligence technology, and we use it to help make domain names more readable. If you notice that the CamelCasing is wrong, you can correct it.
* The map in the "Website Information" box is from Google Maps' service.
* We developed the Page Views and Recent Contributors box (to the right of each page) to make the edits and visits each page receives more transparent.
* Our lists are ranked websites about specific topics. People can create these lists and make them better.

edit Our Policies

AboutUs works to create policies & guidelines that provide a clear explanation of not only the legal aspects of creating a resource based on the information commons, but also on the values that help promote the WikiWay. Check out the AboutUs Guidelines Portal for more information.
edit What's happening at AboutUs
“ You guys have a user-friendly system that makes it easy to optimize listings. AboutUs is a really helpful resource and I've enjoyed learning more about the little tricks that make a page pop out at viewers. ”

—Jon Barilone of SEOP.com,
17 October 2008 (view more testimonials)

* Live Chat - Come chat with us
* Recent Changes - Edits to the wiki
* Spotlight Articles - Promote your website
* PeopleAt.AboutUs.org - Some of our real people
* Criticism and Controversy - See also our Concerns FAQ
* AboutUs Testimonials - Pats on the back
* Jobs@AboutUs
* "List Keepers" are creating lists!
* How you can help - Ways you can contribute and help build AboutUs

edit Related Domains

* Ray King, John Stanton and Brandon Sanders started ICANNwiki.org
* MarkDilley, John Stanton, Ray King and TedErnst started WikiIndex.org
* DomainTools.com supports AboutUs.org
* AboutUs.org uses thumbnails from DomainTools.com
* Alexa.com ranks websites
* Ward Cunningham started the first wiki at C2.com
* AboutUs has a weblog at Blog.AboutUs.org
* We originally used MediaWiki.org software, and have since migrated much of our code to Ruby on Rails.