Match.com

Match.com is an American online dating service headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company has offices in Dallas, West Hollywood, San Francisco, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, and Beijing. Match.com is owned by Match Group, which owns several online dating services.

Match.com is an American online dating service headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company has offices in Dallas, West Hollywood, San Francisco, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, and Beijing. Match.com is owned by Match Group, which owns several online dating services. ==History== In 1993, Match.com was founded by Gary Kremen and Peng T. Ong and Simon Glinsky in San Francisco. At the beginning, Match.com was the name of the website, while the company that operated it was formally named Electric Classifieds Inc. Early on, Kremen was assisted by Ong, who helped in the design of the initial system, and Simon Glinsky, who co-wrote its business plan, developed product designs including matching criteria, services to LGBTQ communities, created business models and initial marketing strategies and made early hires. Fran Maier later joined the company as its director of marketing. According to a retrospective from The Atlantic, Maier helped to implement Match.com's business strategy, which included a subscription model and the inclusion of diverse communities, including technology professionals and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities. Match.com became operational as a free beta version website during early 1995 and was first profiled in Wired magazine that same year. Founder Kremen left the company in March 1996 after disagreements with venture capitalists. In 1997, Match.com was purchased by CUC International. Following CUC's merger with HFS to form Cendant, the company was sold to IAC in 1999. ==Use by sexual predators== A woman claiming she was raped by another person she met on Match.com sued the site in 2011. The woman and her lawyer wanted Match.com to start doing background checks on their users to prevent registered sex offenders from using the site. Match.com has responded that it would create many problems getting background information from all its users. Days after the lawsuit was filed, Match.com announced that the site would begin screening new members. From 2011 to 2014, Jason Lawrance, a man described by British police as a “sexual predator” contacted thousands of women through the website. He raped five of them. In March 2016, Derby Crown Court heard that four of the victims complained about the man to Match.com; one of the women was told that administrators could not do anything because he had not sent abusive messages through the site. ==See also== Comparison of online dating services Timeline of online dating services ==References== ==External links==

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