Введение
Ирландские интернет-форумы. Boards.ie – крупный интернет-форум в Ирландии. По состоянию на 2020 год на сайте было более 360 000 участников, 3 200 000 тем и 64 миллиона сообщений. Широкий спектр тем, от развлечений (например, музыки, радио, телевидения, фильмов) до работы, политики, переживания утраты и личных отношений, широко обсуждается, преимущественно с ирландской точки зрения. Также имеются разделы ("форумы") для игр и головоломок. Участие в форумах требует бесплатной регистрации.
Irish Internet forum
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
История
Irish Internet forum
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
В 1998 году Джон "Клауд" Бреслин создал единый форум для обсуждения среди ирландских пользователей игры id Software Quake, будучи аспирантом Национального университета Ирландии в Голуэе. Этот форум был частью сайта Irish Games Network quake.ie и использовал программное обеспечение "Matt's WWWBoard". Сайт набирал популярность, пока размер тем не превысил возможности программного обеспечения. Бреслин связался с Томом Мерфи, который администрировал форум, посвященный Quake, под названием Quakapalooza, используя программное обеспечение ASP, разработанное Мерфи. Были добавлены некоторые форумы, не связанные с играми, и переименованные "Cloud Boards" начали использовать программное обеспечение Ultimate Bulletin Board. В 1999 году Мерфи предложил более общий (не только связанный с Quake) форум, посвященный общим ирландским вопросам, и посчитал, что домен boards.ie будет более полезным и востребованным. В 2000 году Cloud Boards был переименован для более широкой аудитории. Ограничения, касающиеся того, какие организации могли регистрировать домены, не позволяли частным лицам регистрировать уникальные или пользовательские домены. Бреслин ранее безуспешно пытался зарегистрировать домен cloud.ie в ирландском реестре доменов. Мерфи заключил пари с Бреслин, что сможет успешно зарегистрировать домен для переименованного веб-форума. Мерфи переименовал свою компанию Spin Solutions в Boards на один день, чтобы обмануть систему, зарегистрировал необходимые документы в ирландском регистраторе доменов для boards.ie и получил домен.
Irish Internet forum
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
В 2003 году на форумах boards.ie было размещено один миллион сообщений. В 2007 году компания boards.ie Ltd. приобрела права на boards.us и другие домены у Бреслина. В 2008 году boards.ie нанял своего первого штатного разработчика. Позже в том же году, в августе, boards.ie получил первые инвестиции от Daft Media Ltd.
Irish Internet forum
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
Структура
Irish Internet forum
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
Сайтом в основном владеет Distilled Media Ltd., а миноритарная доля принадлежит некоторым из первоначальных основателей компании, которые делегируют административный и редакционный контроль над сайтом сотням неоплачиваемых модераторов. В настоящее время Том Мерфи исполняет обязанности управляющего директора после ухода предыдущего управляющего директора Джерри Шанахана в феврале 2009 года. Boards.ie Limited считается малым предприятием, поскольку общая сумма его баланса не превышает 4,4 миллиона евро, и зарегистрирована как коммерческое предприятие, занимающееся "компьютерной и связанной с ней деятельностью". Boards.ie Ltd. была создана в понедельник, 24 января 2000 года в Дублине 8. Boards.ie начал свою деятельность как форум для компьютерной игры Quake в 1998 году. Компания была зарегистрирована два года спустя. В 2008 году он считался одним из крупнейших ирландских веб-сайтов, созданных в Ирландии. Любой может предложить новый форум, но для этого требуется определенная поддержка со стороны других участников. Большинство пользователей не платят никаких сборов за использование, хотя предлагается подписка с такими преимуществами, как пользовательские аватары и изменение имени пользователя, среди прочих функций.
Irish Internet forum
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
Расширение
Irish Internet forum
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
Сайт boards.ie расширился на ряд других стран, включая boards.org.uk (Великобритания), boards.us (США), boards.jp (Япония), boards.com.cn (Китай) и boards.co.nz (Новая Зеландия), но все они были закрыты. Также были созданы сайты, связанные с досками объявлений (adverts.ie) и групповыми купонами (boardsdeals.ie).
Irish Internet forum
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
Boards. ie''' is a large Internet forum in Ireland. as of 2020, the site had more than 360,000 members, 3,200,000 threads and 64 million posts. A wide variety of topics from entertainment (e. g. music, radio television, films) to jobs to politics to bereavement and to personal relationships are widely discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective. It also has sections ("forums") for games and puzzles. Participation in the forums requires free registration. History
In 1998, John "Cloud" Breslin created a single forum to enable discussion amongst Irish users of the id Software game Quake, while he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This forum was part of the Irish Games Network's quake. ie site, and utilized "Matt's WWWBoard" software. The site gained in popularity until the size of its threads exceeded the capacity of the software. Breslin came into contact with Tom Murphy, who had been administrating a Quake related forum called Quakapalooza, utilizing Murphy's ASP software. Some non gaming related forums were added to the service, and the retitled "Cloud Boards" began using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software. Murphy proposed a more general (not just Quake related) forum, dedicated to general Irish issues in 1999, and considered the name boards. ie to be a more useful and desired domain. In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud. ie with the Irish domain registry. Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day in order to trick the system, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards. ie, and was granted the domain. In 2003, boards. ie achieved one million posts to its forums. In 2007, the boards. ie Ltd. company acquired the rights to boards. us and other domains from Breslin. In 2008, boards. ie hired its first full time developer. Later that year in August, boards. ie saw its first shareholding investment from Daft Media Ltd. Structure
The site is majority owned by Distilled Media Ltd with a minority stake held by some of the original company founders, who delegate administrative and editorial control over the site to hundreds of unpaid moderators. Currently, Tom Murphy is operating as acting managing director after the departure of the previous managing director, Gerry Shanahan, in February 2009. Boards. ie Limited is considered a small company, since its balance sheet total does not exceed 4.4million euro, and is registered as a commercial company involved in "computer and related activities." Boards. ie Ltd was set up on Mon the 24th of Jan 2000 in Dublin 8. Boards. ie started life as a forum for the computer game, Quake, in 1998. It was registered as a company two years later. In 2008, it was considered one of the largest indigenous Irish websites. 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 custom avatars and a change of username, amongst other features. Expansion
The boards. ie site expanded into a number of other countries including boards. org. uk (United Kingdom), boards. us (United States), boards. jp (Japan), boards. com. cn (China), and boards. co. nz (New Zealand), but all have since closed. Sites associated with classified advertising (adverts. ie) and group coupons (boardsdeals. ie'') have also been established.
Кибер-атаки
21 января 2010 года в 11:20 по Гринвичу директор сайта boards.ie Том Мерфи отключил сайт после атаки на базу данных форума. Сайт рекомендовал всем пользователям, использующим один и тот же пароль на других веб-сайтах, сменить его и там. DDoS-атака в январе 2016 года привела к недоступности boards.ie на несколько дней. Атака, начавшаяся 17 января, вызвала отключение сайта 18 января; работа сайта была восстановлена 20 января. В тот же период времени атакам также подверглись и другие крупные ирландские сайты.
On January 21, 2010, at 11:20 GMT, boards. ie director Tom Murphy took the site offline after an attack on the forum's database. The site advised all users who used the same password on other websites to change it there too. A DDoS attack in January 2016 disabled boards. ie for a few days. Starting on 17 January, the sustained attack brought the site down on 18 January; the site resumed service on 20 January. Other major Irish sites also experienced attacks in the same timeframe.
Награды
boards.ie была удостоена премии Zeddy в 2001 году (с тех пор премии Zeddy были отменены). В том же году она также получила премию "Золотой паук". За вклад в ирландское общество Том Мёрфи был награжден премией Net Visionary Award Ирландской интернет-ассоциацией в 2004 году в категории "Социальный вклад", а также в 2006 году.
boards. ie was awarded a Zeddy Award in 2001. (The Zeddy Awards have since been discontinued.) It also won a Golden Spider Award in the same year. For his contribution to Irish society, Tom Murphy was awarded a Net Visionary Award by the Irish Internet Association in 2004 in the "Social Contribution" category. and 2006.
boards.ie выиграла две награды на Irish Web Awards 2008: "Лучший веб-сайт в Ирландии" и "Лучший дискуссионный форум". Она также получила награду "Лучший сайт социальных сетей и сообществ" на Golden Spider Awards 2008.
boards. ie won two awards in the Irish Web Awards 2008, "Best Website in Ireland" and "Best Discussion Forum". It also won "Best Social Networking and Community Website" in the Golden Spider Awards 2008.