who is kaskus.us ?

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Kaskus is an Indonesian internet forum site which is widely considered as the largest Indonesian online community. It ranks as the 8th most popular website in Indonesia and is one of two local sites in the top 10 (detik.com at 9th), positioning at 379th worldwide according to Alexa.com. It was established on November 6, 1999, by three Indonesian students (Andrew Darwis, RS, and BD) in the United States.

As of October 30, 2009, Kaskus has more than 1,100,000 members. In August 2005 and September 2006, PC Magazine Indonesia voted Kaskus as The Best Indonesian communities twice (2005 & 2006). Registration is required for new users to participate in the community, and every registered member has the privilege to access more than twenty sub-forums on various subjects. The community runs on the vBulletin forum software.

On May 23, 2006, the internet domain has been changed from .com to .us in response to a computer virus called Brontok that attacked the servers.

and do know it ?
turnover velocity of money in the KASKUS.US exceeding earnings from amazon.com, which is the world's largest bookstore.