About.com

Summary

About.com is a website^[1]. About.com ranks in the top 2% of website entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (585 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• About.com is in the country of United States^[3].
• About.com's instance of is recorded as website^[4].
• About.com's instance of is recorded as media company^[5].
• About.com's founder is recorded as Scott Kurnit^[6].
• About.com's owned by is recorded as IAC^[7].
• About.com's logo image is recorded as About.com logo.png^[8].
• About.com's ISNI is recorded as 0000000086067126^[9].
• About.com's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 124537162^[10].
• About.com's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n2003121455^[11].
• About.com's industry is recorded as mass media^[12].
• About.com's industry is recorded as publishing^[13].
• +1997-04-21T00:00:00Z marks the founding of About.com^[14].
• About.com's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09lpm^[15].
• About.com's has edition or translation is recorded as All About^[16].
• About.com's replaced by is recorded as Dotdash^[17].
• About.com's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+3916'}^[18].
• About.com's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+2443'}^[19].
• About.com's X is recorded as aboutdotcom^[20].
• About.com's Instagram username is recorded as aboutdotcom^[21].
• About.com's Facebook username is recorded as aboutdotcom^[22].
• About.com's Crunchbase organization ID is recorded as about-com^[23].
• About.com's FAST ID is recorded as 778171^[24].
• About.com's Quora topic ID is recorded as About-com^[25].
• About.com's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19580173^[26].
• About.com's LinkedIn company or organization ID is recorded as about-com^[27].

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Founding

About.com's founder is recorded as Scott Kurnit^[6]. +1997-04-21T00:00:00Z marks the founding of About.com^[14].

Industry

Industries include mass media^[12] and publishing^[13].

Ownership

About.com's owned by is recorded as IAC^[7].

Why It Matters

About.com ranks in the top 2% of website entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (585 views/month).^[2] About.com has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] About.com is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]