The Web is becoming people-centric

Welcome to Whois.com! We aim to be the most trusted brand for your identity on the net. Whether it's a domain name, open id or our uPOD personal id management tool - we differentiate ourselves by designing services that are first and foremost people-centric.

Our Vision

whois? is a people-centric platform that enables users to create, manage and propagate their presence on the web. We build personal media technologies that empower users to aggregate all their online identities, services, and personas in one place. We aim to transform how people use the web and become the most trusted brand for the world wide web of people, or as we like to say here, the "google of People".

Our Story

Founded in Oct 2007, Mak and myself ("Tk") were inspired by the impact Google was making on the world - to build something that would make the web better and easier to use. And yet it sometimes seems so painful to use the net - trying to remember different passwords, ids, and the services we had registered for. We knew that "Search was not Everything", and that the web needed to be a lot easier to use and smarter. As simple as that sounded, it became the raison d'tere for us to search for the next big thing - what some term Web 3.0

The net today is "web centric", but as millions become ever more dependent on it daily for their work, play and social connections, the web needs to become "people-centric". With the explosion of web sites, services and social networks, and as google had made the web easier to search and access, we sought for a fundamental approach that would make the net easier to use.

Searching for the next big thing
At the gates of google, May 06, Mtn View, CA

Whois? - Our People-Centric Identity Platform

Our whois? 3.0 platform is designed ground up to be people-centric. It recognises that people have multiple personas, and uses different email ids, services, and profiles for their work, play, interests in their private and public lives. Their use of the web is going to increase, and there needs to be a better metaphor to manage their personas and how they interact with the web.

Leveraging on emerging web 3.0 technologies - Semantic Networks, and a new federated approach to id management called openID, we have developed a platform that aims to become the largest aggregator of people identity profiles, and a one-stop platform to create, manage and propagate their online presences.

Our first personal media tool - the uPOD™ - enables users to place all their online personas in one place. The uPOD maintains all the user's id's, web services, profile information and makes signing on to different sites effortless. Try it out now and see how you would never go online again without it. Sign up now!

Or want to make your presence felt online. Try out our whois hotlists tool. Create a category and invite your friends to vote. Better yet, participate in our whois? Hot100 lists and become a new face among the hottest stars in sports, tech, biz and more. Whois-Hot

Who we are

Toon King Wong ("TK")	co-founder and CEO	tkwong@whois.com
Mak Chee Wah	co-founder

Based in sunny Singapore, and a marketing office in Silicon Valley, we are powered by an experienced team of business, technical and operational people that leverages the power of the web to go global. A truly amazing island known for its honest people and highly stable political environment, Singapore is ranked:

#1 as the Most Cost-Competitive Place for Business (KPMG Competitive Alternatives Study, 2006)
#1 as the World's Easiest Place to Do Business (World Bank Report 2007)
#2 as the World's Most "Network Ready" Country (Global Information Technology Report 05/06 - World Economic Forum)