Onet.pl

Onet.pl

URL	onet.pl
Commercial?	yes
Type of site	Web portal
Owner	Grupa Onet.pl SA
Created by	Oddział Internet

Grupa Onet.pl S.A. headquarter

Onet.pl is the largest Polish web portal. It is owned by the Kraków-based Grupa Onet.pl S.A. It was founded in 1996 by Optimus company. According to Alexa rankings, as of December 2007, it is the 45th most popular website worldwide^[1] and the 3rd most popular site in Poland.^[2]

Onet is currently owned by ITI Group media holding.

Services

Among its services is one of Polish online encyclopedias, the WIEM Encyklopedia. It also has a licence for Rebtel service (marketed in Poland as OnetRebtel) and Skype service (marketed in Poland as OnetSkype). Its other services include email, web hosting, Usenet access, web forums and online chats.

Onet launched a clone of CNN iReport called Cynk. This citizen journalism project received between 20 and 30 news items a day, according to Michal Bonarowski, Onet's chief editor of publishing^[3].

Blog hosting accounts for very little of Onet's revenue, despite the 1.6 million accounts and 800,000 active blogs they said they had as of October 2008.^[3]

References

1. ^ Alexa Web Search - Top 500 Accessed 2007-12-12
2. ^ Alexa Top Sites Poland. Accessed 2007-12-12.
3. ^ ^{a b} Portal's not dead: the Onet.pl strategy in Window on the Media, October 2008

External links

• (Polish) Homepage