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Please read my comments and DO the research on GOOGLE! It has 1.4 million references for the AboutUs.org site. Read the articles referenced. The key to Wikipedia is the real time information that is listed. Just as DMOZ is a hugely popular directory, so is AboutUs.org. The only difference- It is Wiki-Style! Please do not snub wiki-style sites especially if they have the Google search results this does. Plus it is now a criteria no the famous Domaintools.com (Name Intelligence "Whois" search site). Please do not be old fashioned and ruin what makes Wikipedia a wiki- and not a stale non contemporary enclyclopedia! Thanks for doing the research! — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiPersonality (talk • contribs) 19:06, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I removed the speedy tag because I don't think this is a clear speedy-deletion candidate. This company has received some press, so if the article gets deleted, it should be via AfD, not just a speedy. Googling for "aboutus.org -site:aboutus.org" gave me 110,000 hits including several news articles in reputable publications that have the site as a primary topic. -GTBacchus(talk) 20:09, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
GTBacchus, I'm glad you admitted your connection there isntead of trying to hide it. I still strongly agree with deletion of the article as-is, but if it got a hefty section of "why this web-site is not well-liked", I'd take a look and re-vote.Cantras 20:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Upon request I have cleaned up the article, and also added some of the controversial publishings which actually appear to come from only a few sources. This should make the article neutral and enjoyable to read. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WikiPersonality (talk • contribs) 21:39, December 2, 2006 (UTC).
I have done some additional exploration of this aboutus.org site. I realize that I have encountered it on links from domaintools.com, but I had thought it was a part of the NameIntelligence family of websites (for example, because the "Wiki" pages for expired domains all point to http://www.namemedia.com/about/ ). I had no clue that this was supposed to be a website directory because I did not see any categories. This is not a web directory. (I did finally happen upon some categories, for example http://www.aboutus.org/Category:Springfield ...) What this site seems to be is a collection of bot-scraped information "about" a large number of registered domain names. (By the way, after seeing the information that aboutus.org has copied from a site I own, I understand why so many website owners are offended by this site. Part of my content has been taken out of context and repackaged...) As a website about domains, I see this as a different form of the type of inforamtion found in WHOIS. This is a feature that probably deserves discussion in the WHOIS article (where domaintools is listed as an "external link"), but there is definitely not enough here at this time to merit a stand-alone topic. Delete or merge some content into WHOIS. --orlady 03:41, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Rather than delete this article, how about deleting any un-sourcable information? And, if you feel the page is an advertisement, place an advertisement tag. I think a page should only be deleted AFTER steps have been taken to remove any content that can't be backed up. If the page as is can be backed up in reliable sources, I think it would warrant keeping. Cazort (talk) 18:11, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
== My question is to Orlady.. == Why should DMOZ be listed and what makes IT more significant? It is a claimed "Open Directory" with history and high volume of included links. AboutUs.org is automated, and NOT closed to any site becuase it does not have the constraints of manual labor and will. It is merely newer! (But not unused, untested, or irrelevant in google searches, or articles) Please do a detailed view of the Alexa ranking on the site to see the rapidity of it's popularity. In other words, to delete AboutUs.org one should have to justify keeping DMOZ because the differences are simply automation and age, not purpose or popularity which are similar.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.83.180.170 (talk • contribs) 18:26, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Information (not that it's actually relevant to notability): Today when I googled "aboutus.org", the results pages included fewer than 300 hits in total, although the first page header says "Results 1 - 100 of about 1,010,000 for aboutus.org". It appears that almost all of the hits are blogs and online forums. http://nextnetnews.blogspot.com/2006/11/aboutusorg-lands-1m.html lists the investors who put up the $1M and says『The site’s traffic after only a few months is one of its primary selling points.』--orlady 21:28, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not for or against that website, but clearly it has been in the spotlight for quite a while, and has been referenced by the largest registrars in the whois response. I don't think it could be considered irrelevant anymore, regardless of its ethics and unusability. --grin ✎ 14:41, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A separate section for this type of content is directly discouraged by WP:NPOV. As all of the content has to do with the site's content, it should be merged with the "contents" section. VanTucky Talk 20:55, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
According to Meta, AboutUs.org is the largest mediawiki wiki out there. See the List of the largest wikis. This should most definitely be mentioned once in the article. VanTucky 22:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I see no traffic info anywhere. Considering that we have 500 million uniques and we're close to being within the top 1k sites (according to Alexa), I think it's important to add this info. It may be most NPOV to average the traffic info from a couple sources. Steven Walling (talk) 23:23, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Here are several new references for a fresh investment round, hits to our site, and the number of employees. The first is from the Portland Business Journal, the second is from The Oregonian's tech blog, and the third is from TechFlash in Seattle. Steven Walling (talk) 19:33, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I just noticed an edit which changed the article to list some new people as founders of the company. I would like to point out that while the people added are business partners and investors in AboutUs (Westerdal through the company NameIntelligence and Stahura through eNom), neither person is actually a part of the company's staff nor are they are part of the founding team in any operational way.
None of the independent sources in the article (such as TechCrunch or the Portland Business Journal) mention Westerdal and Stahura as founders, and the addition was made without any supporting reference. If someone could correct the article to accurately reflect the history of the company, that would be great. I would just do it, but I have a consulting gig with AboutUs and I would prefer to stay hands off. Thanks, Steven Walling 00:54, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
They are clearly spamming scum who are trying to game Google's rankings. I am sure bloggers could be found complaining about the copying of their content (which they sometimes embed in their pages in HTML comments even after agreeing to "remove" it). This article as it stands is unrealistically positive. 86.128.241.168 (talk) 16:33, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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