Onet.pl is the largest Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 web portal

Web portal

A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way....

. It is owned by the Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

-based Grupa Onet.pl S.A. It was founded in 1996 by Optimus

Optimus

-Companies and corporations:* Optimus Telecomunicações, S.A., a Portuguese mobile phone company* Optimus S.A., a Polish computer assembler* Optimus Shuttle, a Boston-based livery service-Deities, mythology, and religion:...

 company. According to Alexa

Alexa Internet

Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic...

 rankings, as of December 2007, it is the 45th most popular website worldwide and the 3rd most popular site in Poland.

Onet is currently owned by ITI Group

ITI Group

ITI Group , known as Grupa ITI in Polish, is a large media conglomerate headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. ITI Group controls the Polish television network, TVN, among its many holdings.The ITI Group was co-founded by businessmen Jan Wejchert and Mariusz Walter in 1984...

 media holding.

Services

Among its services is one of Polish online encyclopedias, the WIEM Encyklopedia

WIEM Encyklopedia

WIEM Encyklopedia is a Polish Internet encyclopedia....

. It also has a licence for Rebtel

Rebtel

Rebtel is a Mobile VoIP provider, founded in 2006 in Sweden by Hjalmar Winbladh and Jonas Lindroth. The Rebtel offices are located in Stockholm, Sweden and Luxembourg....

 service (marketed in Poland as OnetRebtel) and Skype

Skype

Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chat over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system...

 service (marketed in Poland as OnetSkype). Its other services include email

Email

Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...

, web hosting, Usenet

Usenet

Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...

 access, web forums and online chat

Online chat

Online chat may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet, that offers an instantaneous transmission of text-based messages from sender to receiver, hence the delay for visual access to the sent message shall not hamper the flow of communications in any of the directions...

s.

Onet launched a clone of CNN iReport called Cynk. This citizen journalism

Citizen journalism

Citizen journalism is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal 2003 report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information...

project received between 20 and 30 news items a day, according to Michal Bonarowski, Onet's chief editor of publishing.

Blog hosting accounts for very little of Onet's revenue, despite the 1.6 million accounts and 800,000 active blogs they said they had as of October 2008.