service founded 1999 headquarters london england uk key people matt casey managing director carla dawkins product director products web services parent hibu subsidiaries sitemaker software limited website www.moonfruit.com moonfruit munfr t is a uk based company that offers a website building service . contents 1 history 2 twitter 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit moonfruit was launched in january 2000 during the dot com bubble and was supported entirely by advertisements . 1 when the bubble burst it became a subscription based service . 2 later the company was bought out by its london based staff . 3 the service is now in its sixth version including a french language version with further languages to follow . 4 in april 2011 over 3.5 million websites had been built using moonfruit s point and click interface and drag and drop templates . 5 by the end of 2011 over 4.4 million were created with another 1.2 million in 2012 bringing the total to 5.66 million websites by the end of 2012 . 6 sitemaker is a reseller of domain registrar gandi so sitemaker customers can register domains for their sites in return gandi offers sitemaker as an option to its customers in addition to its own website builder . 7 8 turnover reached 1.9 m in 2009 before shooting up to nearly 4m in 2010 9 with its sitemaker subsidiary making a loss of 1.26 m in 2011 . 10 moonfruit is advertising both free and subscription based accounts as of october 2011 . on 16 may 2012 it was announced that yell group had acquired moonfruit for 23m . 10 in 2013 moonfruit s flash based platform was adapted to render sites in the html 5 format to enable website presentation on tablets and apple based devices . 11 the html 5 rendering engine continues to be improved with new features and improvements including e commerce blog page and social platform integration . moonfruit user created websites that are facilitated by the new build of moonfruit can be viewed at the non affiliated moonfruit directory . 12 on 8 august 2016 moonfruit announced that they would cease to offer free websites . the owners of free moonfruit websites could upgrade to a paid subscription failing which their websites would be deleted after 90 days . twitter edit in june 2009 moonfruit began a promotional campaign using the viral power of twitter s trending topics . in celebration of their 10th birthday they offered twitter users the chance to win an apple macbook pro just by tweeting their tag ; moonfruit . one macbook would be given away each day for 10 days to a random tweeter who had used the tag . this campaign was successful enough to keep the moonfruit tag at the top of the trending topics for an entire week and garnered some media attention . 13 14 15 see also edit comparison of free web hosting services references edit will the moon bear fruit . the guardian . london . 2000 01 20 . retrieved 2010 05 13 . digest . 9 august 2001 . retrieved 16 february 2014 . rebecca march 8 2011 . q & a wendy tan white moonfruit . smarta enterprises ltd. retrieved 16 february 2014 . moonfruit launches french version of flash site building toolkit . archived from the original on july 6 2009 . the startups team apr 4 2011 . moonfruit wendy tan white . startups.co.uk . tech start ups . retrieved 16 february 2014 . moonfruit retrospective 2012 . retrieved 16 february 2014 . partners moonfruit . www.moonfruit.com . retrieved 2016 10 08 . resellers welcome to gandi s online documentation wiki gandi docs . wiki.gandi.net . retrieved 2016 10 08 . moonfruit wendy tan white . growing business . startups.co.uk . april 4 2011 . retrieved january 18 2015 . a b yell acquires moonfruit . yell group . 16 may 2012 . archived from the original on 16 november 2012 . html 5 roll out plan . 20 december 2012 . the moonfruit directory . 18 november 2014 . twitter promotion done right moonfruit . archived from the original on 2009 07 02 . why is moonfruit trending on twitter it s the rebirth of a startup . moonfruit finds instant roi with twitter campaign . external links edit official website official sitemaker website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title moonfruit & oldid 744183539 categories web development softwareweb hostinginternet companies of the united kingdomfree web hosting services navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 october 2016 at 16 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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