boards.ie

boards.ie
URL	http://www.boards.ie
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Classified discussion boards
Available language(s)	English, Irish; some subforums for other languages
Owner	Tom Murphy, John Breslin, Dan King, Jerry Connolly, Gerry Shanahan
Created by
Launched	2000

boards.ie is an Internet forum in Ireland with more than 115,000 registered accounts, 600,000 threads and more than 7 million posts. A wide variety of topics are discussed, mostly but not limited to an Irish perspective - Americans and Britons also use the Boards.

History

In 1998 Dr. John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the iD Software game Quake. More forums were added and boards.ie was launched in 2000. An Irish company called "Boards" had to be used to obtain the Irish (.ie) domain name at that time. It was registered in 2000 as 'boards.ie Limited' with the Companies Registration Office in Dublin.

Structure

The site is owned by five individuals, known as the administrators or admins. The admins delegate administrative and editing control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. There are nearly 1,000 forums, public and private.

A new forum can be proposed by anyone but requires a certain amount of support from other members. Most users do not pay any usage fees, although subscription is offered with benefits such as free webspace.

Awards

• Golden Spider
• Net Visionary
• Zeddy

References

• The Friday Interview: Tom Murphy, boards.ie SiliconRepublic.com

External links

• boards.ie main page
• boards.ie Wiki (AKA Biki)
• The Gathering Cards
• boards.ie FAQ

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