Pastebin.com

Pastebin.com is a pastebin website. It was created in 2002 by Paul Dixon, and reached 1 million active pastes (excluding spam and expired pastes) eight years later, in 2010.[2]

Pastebin
Type of site
Web application
Created byPaul Dixon
URLpastebin.com
Alexa rank 1,366 (US/Global 03/2020)
LaunchedSeptember 3, 2002 (2002-09-03)[1]

By October 2011, the site's active pastes numbers exceeded 10 million.[2] In July 2012, the owners of Pastebin.com tweeted that they had already surpassed the 20 million active pastes mark.[3] On June 9, 2015, they announced they had reached 65 million active pastes.[4] They also mentioned that around 75% of pastes are either unlisted or private.[5]

In 2015 Pastebin.com reached 95 million active pastes, and more than 2 million members.[6]

During the 2014 Venezuelan protests, Pastebin.com was blocked by the country's government as one of the sites where activists were sharing information.[7]

Pastebin.com is a popular source of dark web .onion links.[8]

See also

References
  1. "PasteBin.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  2. "Pastebin.com Surpasses 10 Million "Active" Pastes". TechCrunch.com. 2011-10-26. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  3. Pastebin [@pastebin] (2012-07-04). "Time for cake!!! Pastebin.com now hosts more than 20 million active pastes! Stats -> pastebin.com/stats" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. "Pastebin on Facebook: "Pastebin reached another big milestone yesterday..."".
  5. "Pastebin on Twitter".
  6. Biggs, John. "Pastebin, The Text Sharing Website, Updates With An Emphasis On Code".
  7. "Internet a crucial Venezuela battleground". Jamaica Observer. Kingston, Jamaica: Jamaica Observer. Associated Press. 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
  8. Koebler, Jason (23 February 2015). "The Closest Thing to a Map of the Dark Net: Pastebin - motherboard.vice.com". Retrieved 14 July 2015.


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