Difference between revisions of "ProBoards.com"

Title

ProBoards

Subtitle: Free Remotely Hosted Message Boards

Description

ProBoards is one of the largest websites on the internet, and the largest free message board host, competiting against EZBoard.com. ProBoards was founded in 1999 by Patrick Clinger using the YaBB software, which overtime has turned into a completely custom code for ProBoards. Now today in 2008 ProBoards receives over 500 million pageviews monthly.

Languages

English

Address

Lake Forest CA 92630 US

Contact

Patrick Clinger

Additional Information

ProBoards has four servers just for default template images.

As of 10 Janaury, 2008:

2,042,313 Boards hosted.

17,752,045 total registered users.

46,081,578 total threads.

511,642,190 total posts.

ProBoards main source of income is through AdFree purchases, and the Google ads displayed at the top of every message board. ProBoards in 2003 stopped using popups or popunder ads making their software and hosting more unique.

ProBoards was the first remotely hosted service for free that gave subdomains.

ProBoards has many servers. To view each domain they do own as a server, server mergers, or domains that were taken and not owned by ProBoards go to: ProBoards.com/servers.

Some information that should be known about the Support community. Only the people with the red names and has 'ProBoards.com' as a custom title should be trusted with your password. The only time your password is ever asked for is when it is to confirm your original signup password to restore a deleted board or regain ownership.

Related Domains

External Links

• Alexa: ProBoards.com