Pastebin.com
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Type of site
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| Created by | Paul Dixon |
| Website | pastebin |
| Launched | September 3, 2002 |
Pastebin.com is a pastebin website. Although created in 2002, Pastebin.com only reached 1 million "active" pastes (not spam or expired pastes) eight years later, in 2010. In February 2010, Pastebin.com was sold by the original owner, Paul Dixon, to Jeroen Vader, a Dutch serial Internet entrepreneur. Only a few weeks after the transfer, Vader had launched a whole new version of the website which he branded V2.0. In early 2011, V3.0 was launched.
By October 2011, the site's active pastes numbers exceeded 10 million. Less than a year later, in July 2012, the owners of Pastebin.com tweeted that they had already surpassed the 20 million active pastes mark. On June 9, 2015, they announced they had reached 65 million active pastes. They also mentioned that around 75% of pastes are either unlisted or private.
In 2015 Pastebin.com reached 95 million active pastes, and more than 2 million members.
During the 2014 Venezuelan protests, Pastebin.com was blocked by the country's government as one of the sites where activists were sharing information.
Pastebin.com is a popular source of dark web .onion links.
The website also features a page for trending public pastes.
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