AboutUs.org is a technology company.
AboutUs.org is a technology company.
AboutUs.org has raised $5.0M across 1 funding round.
AboutUs.org has raised $5.0M in total across 1 funding round.
AboutUs.org has raised $5.0M in total across 1 funding round.
AboutUs.org's investors include Voyager Capital.
AboutUs.org (redirecting to AboutUs.com) is an inactive internet domain directory wiki launched in 2005-2006 that allows users to create and edit pages about websites, people, places, and other entities, filling a gap for non-notable or commercial site information.[1][2] It served webmasters and website owners by providing a central hub for "about us" summaries, SEO-related tools, and open self-promotion, growing to over 20 million entries at its peak with free services for optimizing online visibility and site performance.[1][3] The platform, built on Ruby on Rails and later PHP, targeted small businesses, organizations, and individuals but has seen no significant activity since around 2018, now owned by Omkarasana, LLC in Denver, Colorado.[1][2][4]
Founded in 2005 by Ray King, Jay Westerdal, and Paul Stahura—domain industry veterans, including Stahura who built eNom into a major registrar—the idea emerged to create a wiki-style directory for every website, regardless of notability.[1][2][4] Development ramped up in 2006 with a five-person team in Portland, Oregon, quickly expanding to over 30 staff across two continents, including an office in Lahore, Pakistan; Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, served as CTO from 2007 to 2011.[1][2] Early traction included a $1 million Series A funding round in late 2006 and peak U.S. traffic of 1.4 million visitors in July 2008, but post-2010 domain shift to AboutUs.com and 2013 sale to Omkarasana, LLC, visitor numbers and revenue declined sharply, leading to dormancy.[1][2][5]
AboutUs rode the mid-2000s wiki boom post-Wikipedia, addressing a market gap for democratized web discovery amid exploding domain registrations and SEO needs, when tools for small sites were scarce.[1][5] Its timing capitalized on open-editing trends and domain industry growth—founders' eNom background highlighted this—making it a go-to for webmasters pre-Google dominance in search personalization.[2][4] It influenced the ecosystem by normalizing user-generated directories for commercial entities, paving the way for modern tools like niche SEO platforms, though its decline reflects shifts to algorithm-driven search and social discovery.[1][3]
With activity halted since 2018 and infrastructure on AWS, AboutUs.org appears defunct as an active player, unlikely to revive without new investment amid AI-powered search dominance.[1] Trends like automated web scraping and LLM directories could render wiki models obsolete, but its model might inspire niche revivals in decentralized web tools or blockchain-verified site registries. Its legacy endures in open web documentation, potentially evolving via acquisition into a static archive or SEO data trove, tying back to its roots as an accessible hub for the long tail of the internet.[1][3]
AboutUs.org has raised $5.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $5.0M Series A in January 2009.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2009 | $5.0M Series A | Voyager Capital |