gulli.com

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gulli.com
Logo from gulli.com
www.gulli.com ( Memento from November 28, 2017 in the web archive archive.today )
motto "The independent IT and tech channel!"
description Portal, community, forum
languages German
owner Randolf Jorberg
Published 1998

gulli.com was a web portal that dealt with topics relating to Internet use, including computer security , network policy , file sharing , anonymity , data protection and copyright .

The offer was aimed at computer users and beginners. In addition to the forum and a news ticker, the portal offered various services, including a toplist ( web catalog with voting system), a subdomain service, a whois query and specialized search engines .

On May 25, 2018, gulli.com was discontinued and the domain was offered for sale. Founder Randolf Jorberg announced the buyback of gulli.com a few weeks later.

history

The website gulli.com was founded on November 6th, 1998 by Randolf Jorberg . In addition to cracks and serial numbers , there were also political articles on the site. In order to guarantee the anonymity of the user, no IPs were saved. This was maintained until the end.

In January 2000 the web forum gulli: board was added. gulli.com operated two servers from April 2000 to June 2013, later only one in the IRC network german-elite.net. Liberty was taken offline after the takeover of gamigo advertising GmbH and the #gulli channel was redirected from the IRC OP of german-elite.net. So gulli.com currently has no channel and no server in german-elite.net.

In 2002 a complete relaunch of the site followed, which was operated from Jorbergs fliks-it solutions GmbH in Bochum until February 2008 . An underground search engine was added.

The website's news ticker has been editorially updated since January 2005. After a second relaunch of the site in October 2005, was created in December, a now discontinued Wikipedia - Mirror with its own entry page and from 2009 an IT glossary included, who also scene relevant terms. At the Department of General Sociology at the Technical University of Dortmund , the " Warez " section on the jugendszenen.com portal was created in 2005 in cooperation with gulli.com .

Since August 2006, gulli.com offered an NFO service, which was operated by German NFO Source (GNS). The filehoster gulli: share was offered on September 28, 2007 on the eBay auction platform and achieved a price of 6,850 euros. However, the buyer withdrew from the offer and the service remained with gulli.com.

Since December 28, 2007, gulli.com had offered a mail service based on Google Apps . On May 23, 2015, this service was discontinued for cost reasons.

As a result of ongoing legal problems, the sale of the site was announced on February 25, 2008. Since then, gulli.com has been operated and managed by the Austrian “Gulli Community Association”. Initially, this should not mean any major changes for the users of gulli.com. On August 8, 2008, however, it was announced that the majority of the exchange and the one-click hosting platform gulli: share would be closed on August 11, 2008 for legal reasons .

Numerous gulli.com clones emerged within a few days of the stock exchange closing, but some of them disappeared after just a few days. In the gulli forum, the operators announced that they would take legal action against projects called "gulli". Gulli has been a word mark registered with the German Patent and Trademark Office since 2003 .

The former operators of gulli.com, Richard "Korrupt" Joos, Randolf "gulli" Jorberg and Axel "LexaT" Gönnemann, published gulli wars, a book on the history of gulli.com in August 2008 , which is published under a Creative Commons - License is released. It tells stories about the founding of the site, the legal conflicts and other details.

In October 2008 Valentin Fritzmann and Inqnet GmbH, based in Vienna, took over the portal. It was relaunched again on October 21, 2009. The top list for warez pages has been abolished. At the same time, the location of the servers was moved to Vienna.

On July 1, 2013, the portal was sold to gamigo Advertising GmbH, a subsidiary of gamigo AG with headquarters in Hamburg , due to a decline in user numbers .

On May 25, 2018, the day the GDPR came into force , gamigo Advertising GmbH discontinued the entire offer and released the domain for sale. A few weeks later, founder Randolf Jorberg announced on his blog that he had bought back gulli.com. The website did not contain any content yet.

board

The gulli: board is part of the gulli.com portal. As of July 16, 2013, the board had a total of 13,250,239 posts from 1,174,231 users on 1,452,723 topics.

In 2008, the administration repeatedly closed the audio exchange section of the gulli: boards for legal reasons . After the Gulli Community Verein took over the board, it was temporarily reopened. On August 11, 2008, several parts of the exchange were closed again after a three-day read-only phase due to conflicts with rights holders. The file hosting platform gulli: share was also closed.

A few days after the takeover of gulli.com by gamigo Advertising GmbH, there was a break in the moderator crew on the board in 2013, after which some of you founded the independent ngb.to. On July 28, 2018, there were 881,040 posts by 9,448 users on 34,510 topics.

Criticism and legal conflicts

In its early days, the gulli.com site was often in conflict with software manufacturers and collecting societies due to illegal content and could only be reached at constantly changing addresses.

The operators were also accused of distributing dialers to their users.

From 2005, legal disputes increasingly revolved around critical or denigrating forum contributions. For example, the pricing policy of Euroweb Internet GmbH was criticized in the gulli.com forum ; According to information from Gulli.com, Euroweb then forced the platform operator to remove relevant forum posts with an injunction in the case of an amount in dispute of 70,000 euros and procedural costs of 2,800 euros. This generated criticism from bloggers and other websites.

A later conflict with the structured distributor Herbalife , which in February 2006 asked for the deletion of a forum thread from the year 2000 in order not to be associated with Scientology , received less public attention .

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gulli.com: Disclaimer
  2. ↑ Gulli News - Lexicon restarted ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Gulli.com: gulli relaunch: Everything is new in October! ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), October 22, 2009
  4. ↑ Feedback thread on gulli: mail shutdown ( memento of the original from June 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / board.gulli.com
  5. ↑ Copy of the announcement that was only sent by email
  6. ↑ Change of ownership in gulli: no further operation in Germany possible ( memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at gulli.com.
  7. ↑ a b Important announcement about the stock exchange ( memento of the original from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / board.gulli.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at gulli.com.
  8. ↑ Register information from the German Patent and Trademark Office
  9. ↑ gulli.com: Imprint
  10. ^ Richard Joos, Randolf Jorberg, Axel Gönnemann: gulli wars . Books on Demand GmbH, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-4294-8 .
  11. ↑ This is how the Viennese Schlawiner hijacked the pirate cruiser Gulli.com. August 6, 2009
  12. ↑ gulli.com: gulli relaunch: Everything is new in October! ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  13. ↑ On our own behalf: gulli.com changes hands ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  14. ↑ GULLI is coming back! | The Randolf Jorberg Blog. Retrieved February 20, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Statistics as of July 16, 2013, 3:16 p.m.
  16. ↑ Lars Sobiraj: Take care gulli.com, it was really nice with you !! In: Lars Sobiraj. July 12, 2013, accessed on February 20, 2019 (German).
  17. ↑ taz : Hackers have learned to gamble , June 27, 2002
  18. ↑ Injunction against gulli board ( Memento of 25 January 2013 Web archive archive.today ) at gulli.com.
  19. ↑ Euroweb attacks bloggers ( memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) at gulli.com
  20. ↑ cf. Euroweb and the memory-free space. at blogbar.de
  21. ↑ at qxm.de
  22. ↑ cf. Euroweb ( Memento from February 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at nerdcore.de
  23. ↑ Blogging for freedom of expression at netzeitung.de
  24. ↑ Secured forum post at jensscholz.com
  25. ↑ gulli.com: Herbalife: never with Scientology on a website ( memento from September 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), February 22, 2006