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AboutUs.orgRegister.com is a company with a mission, to write a detailed article about every domain in the world and spotlight great websites. On Feb 22nd, Network Solution linked to it from their whois records, then on the 24th Google Maps linked in as well. Both registrars have incorporated a whois link pointing to the AboutUs page for the domain listed on the whois record. Two other registrars that incorporated earlier were eNom and BulkRegistrar, they have been live for about 4 months. Network Solutions and Register.com are the two oldest registrars in the world with some of the best names under management, this should add some new eyeballs and continue the rapid growth of the project. AboutUs allows the general public to document their favorite websites, people are hungry to edit and share their sites with others. With an easy way to edit, a friendly staff and group of dedicated volunteers, documenting a website throughly has never been easier.

The article on Microsoft and AboutUs are outstanding, you can’t find all the information these pages describe so easily on the official sites. This documentation is constructed mostly by users after they use a website, no PR stuff in there just honest documentation by users for users. Companies don’t document like outsiders do and especially when the entire web is able to help. AboutUs is also setting up communities around subject matter to tie similar sites together, this allows for easy browsing of similar websites. Wikipedia did AboutUs a huge favor by popularizing the Wiki concept that anyone should be allowed to edit. Whenever someone edits/adds a sentence or fixes a grammar error they are improving the quality of the discussion.

If you haven’t used yet now is a great time to try it, hopefully more Registrars will embrace the project and it will make it easier for users to document all websites.