Boards.ie

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boards.ie Ltd

Type	Private, Limited
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Dublin, Ireland
Key people	Tom Murphy, John Breslin, Dan King, Jerry Connolly, Gerry Shanahan
Employees	0 (2006)
Website	www.boards.ie

The correct title of this article is boards.ie. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

boards.ie is currently Ireland's largest Internet forum with more than 75,000 users and more than 5 million posts.^[1] A wide variety of topics is discussed, mostly from an Irish perspective.

1 History
2 Structure
3 Awards
4 References
5 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 more than 500 forums.

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.