How to create your own AboutUs.org page
May 20th, 2008 by Andreas from Xavier Media® in Domain names. Topics: HTML & The Web
AboutUs.org is a wiki built with the same software as Wikipedia, but instead of being an Encyclopedia of everything it's focusing on domain names. If you would like to know more about a company behind a domain name AboutUs.org is the place where you should have a look since almost every domain name registered got its own page in the form of Aboutus.org/sampleaddress.com (where sampleaddress.com is the domain you would like to look up). If a page doesn't exist for the domain name you're looking for the AboutUs.org bot will create one in a few seconds 
Since AboutUs.org is built using MediaWiki (same as most Wiki's in the world) all users can help build the database, but you need to know the correct syntax to use since HTML wont work. AboutUs.org already got a good guide helping you to get started, but I will anyway mention a few of the basic codes.
Bold text:
"'Bold text:"'
Italic text:
"Italic text:"
Force a line break with <br>:
first line <br> second line
Make text small:
<small>text</small>
Enlarge text:
<big>Enlarged text</big>
Make text striked over:
<strike>text</strike>
Link to an external page outside AboutUs.org:
[http://sampleaddress.com Sample Address]
Link to an internal page at AboutUs.org:
[[SampleAddress.com Sample Address]]
You can also create tables and add images too, but that's another lesson 
Now it's time for you to visit your own domain names AboutUs.org page by typing Aboutus.org/sampleaddress.com (where sampleaddress.com is your own domain name) in your web browser. If you don't have a domain name yet you can get one for just a few bucks at eXavier.com.
About the authorAndreas co-founded Xavier Media® in 1996 and has since been involved in all kinds of development, marketing and making money online.
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July 21st, 2008 at 5:32 am
i want to create domain page for my site but i don't know how to get started. I have created my personal page on wiki but don't know about creating domain page(for http://1to1surf.com). Can anyone help ?
July 21st, 2008 at 6:24 am
In that case you should visit http://www.aboutus.org/1to1surf.com and AboutUs will create a simple page for you. Then just update your page with the information you would like to att.
/Andreas
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:02 am
Very nice Info… Thanks…
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