Bomis (pronounced |ˈbɑməs|)^[1] is a dot-com company founded in 1996. Its primary business is the sale of advertising on the Bomis.com search portal. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and Tim Shell^{[citation needed]}, and provided support for the free encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. As of 2006, Tim Shell is the CEO of Bomis. A private company is a company that is independently owned. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see St. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Florida. ... Jimmy Donal Jimbo Wales, (born August 7, 1966)[2] is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for his role in founding Wikipedia, as well as other wiki-related projects, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. ... Tim Shell, 2005 Timothy Robert Shell (born May 5, 1968 [1]) is an American internet entrepreneur. ... For the tax agency in Ireland of the same name, see Revenue Commissioners. ... This article is about work. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Web portals are sites on the World Wide Web that typically provide personalized capabilities to their visitors. ... Advert redirects here. ... The term natural language is used to distinguish languages spoken by humans for general-purpose communication from constructs such as computer-programming languages or the languages used in the study of formal logic, especially mathematical logic. ... Dot-com redirects here. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Advert redirects here. ... Jimmy Donal Jimbo Wales, (born August 7, 1966)[2] is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for his role in founding Wikipedia, as well as other wiki-related projects, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. ... Tim Shell, 2005 Timothy Robert Shell (born May 5, 1968 [1]) is an American internet entrepreneur. ... Nupedia was a Web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by experts and licensed as free content. ... Wikipedia (IPA: , or ( ) is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On the Bomis.com site, Bomis creates and hosts web rings around popular search terms. The rings are currently categorized broadly as "Babes", "Entertainment", "Sports", "Adult", "Other" and "Science fiction".^[2] The "Adult", "Babes" and "Entertainment" categories are the most frequently updated and the most popular. In addition, Bomis hosts a copy of the Open Directory Project search directory. Revenue from search-related pages is generated from advertising and affiliate marketing. A web ring is group of related web pages linked to each other in a sequence that forms a ring. ... The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as dmoz (from , its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links owned by Netscape that is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors. ... Illustration of the concept of affiliate marketing Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web businesses (merchants/advertisers) in which an affiliate (publisher) is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts. ...

Bomis ran a website called Bomis Premium at premium.bomis.com until 2005, offering customers access to premium adult content.

Until mid-2005, Bomis also featured the Bomis Babe Report, a free blog, publishing news and reviews about celebrities, models, and the adult entertainment industry. The Babe Report prominently linked to Bomis Premium and frequently posted updates about new models joining Bomis. Bomis has also operated nekkid.info, a free repository of selected erotic photographs,^[3] and continues to host The Babe Engine, "a precision babe search engine", which indexes photos ranging from glamour photography to pornography.^[4] To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... For other uses, see Celebrity (disambiguation). ... A model is a person who poses or displays for purposes of art, fashion, or other products and advertising. ... Adult entertainment is entertainment restricted from people under a specified age in by a community, religious group, or government. ... Glamour photography is the photographing of a model (usually female), in a way that is intended to be erotic, yet not pornographic. ... Porn redirects here. ...

In addition to its erotica and search properties, Bomis has provided hosting to websites supporting Objectivist and other libertarian political views, including the "Freedom's Nest",^[5] a database of books and quotes, and "We the Living", a large objectivist community website which is now defunct. This article is about the philosophy of Ayn Rand. ... See also Libertarianism and Libertarian Party Libertarian,is a term for person who has made a conscious and principled commitment, evidenced by a statement or Pledge, to forswear violating others rights and usually living in voluntary communities: thus in law no longer subject to government supervision. ...

Silvia Saint in a Bomis T-Shirt

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Role in the creation of Nupedia and Wikipedia

Main article: History of Wikipedia

As of 2005, Bomis is best known for having supported the creation of the free-content online encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. Wales started Nupedia in 2000, and Larry Sanger was hired to manage and edit that project. A year into the development of Nupedia, a wiki was set up as a way to solicit new drafts for Nupedia; named Wikipedia. While originally intended as a 'feeder' project for Nupedia, Wikipedia — with its much lower barriers to contribution — rapidly outgrew its parent in size and attention. This article covers the history of Wikipedia, a project to produce a free content encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. ... Cyclopedia redirects here. ... Lawrence Mark Larry Sanger (born July 16, 1968[1]) has been involved with various online encyclopedia projects. ...

For a while, Bomis provided web servers and bandwidth for these projects, paid Sanger in his role as project editor-in-chief (until he left the projects in 2002), and owned key items such as the associated domain names; however, as the costs and popularity of Wikipedia rose, a general reluctance to display advertising on the site — together with a desire to reflect the spirit of openness and neutrality central to Wikipedia — suggested an alternative ownership model. The inside/front of a Dell PowerEdge web server The term Web server can mean one of two things: A computer program that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as Web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are... Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower cutoff frequencies of, for example, a filter, a communication channel, or a signal spectrum, and is typically measured in hertz. ... The term domain name has multiple related meanings: A name that identifies a computer or computers on the internet. ...

The Wikimedia Foundation was formally announced on June 20, 2003, and all intellectual property and domain name assets were transferred or donated to this non-profit organization. Existing server hardware was not transferred.^[6] Larry Sanger had left the project by this time, but Jimmy Wales retains a key role on the board of the Foundation, along with users elected from the Wikipedia community. The Foundation now funds the operation of Wikipedia (and its sister projects) primarily through donations from readers. Bomis CEO Tim Shell was the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation until December 2006, when he was replaced by Jan-Bart de Vreede. For the wiki software used and developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, see MediaWiki. ... is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A non-profit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support an issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes, without concern for monetary profit. ... Tim Shell, 2005 Timothy Robert Shell (born May 5, 1968 [1]) is an American internet entrepreneur. ...

References

1. ^ Bomis FAQ
2. ^ Bomis What's New. Retrieved on December 24, 2005.
3. ^ See domain name registration information and archived copies
4. ^ The site is advertised on Bomis.com; as of March 2006, it resolved to the same IP address as premium.bomis.com, and it uses bomis.com as its nameservers.
5. ^ Freedom's Nest website. Retrieved on March 16, 2006.
6. ^ Wikipedia-l - Announcing Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-04-07.

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External links and sources

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Bomis

• Official Bomis website
• List of Bomis slogans – a random slogan from the list is displayed on each www.bomis.com page
• Jimmy Wales on the Wikipedia-L mailing list about Bomis October 28, 2001
• Jimmy Wales and Bomis - Times Online
• Jimmy Wales and Bomis - wired.com