Bomis is an Internet company founded in 1996. Its primary business is the sale of advertising on the Bomis.com search portal. It also sells erotic images over the Internet.

Bomis started Nupedia and hired Larry Sanger who, while working on Nupedia, had the idea for Wikipedia. Bomis provides the webspace and bandwidth for these projects. Bomis also owned some key items related to the project that were not open source or open content (such as the domain name). However, these were moved to the ownership of the Wikimedia Foundation, officially announced on June 20, 2003 (See: Wikimedia Foundation's By-laws (PDF file)).

Bomis has never had venture capital.

Jimbo Wales is the majority owner of Bomis. Minority stakeholders include Tim Shell and one silent partner.

Former employee Larry Sanger worked solely on Nupedia and Wikipedia.

External links

• Official Bomis website
  • The Bomis Babe Report (contains nudity)
  • Bomis Premium Website (contains nudity; subscription-based site)
• List of Bomis slogans
• Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia-L about Bomis