Startups
Mollom is currently protecting 32,084 active websites. The average efficiency is 99.9%. This means that only 10 in 10,000 spam messages were not caught. Mollom has caught 361,999,548 spam messages since it started. Yesterday we caught 447,246 spam messages. On average, 90% of all messages are spam.
Mollom is one of the largest website spam filtering systems available. In addition to the statistics above, Mollom filters about 4 million messages each day for Netlog, an online social portal for European youth.
Mollom is one of the largest website spam filtering systems available. In addition to the statistics above, Mollom filters about 4 million messages each day for Netlog, an online social portal for European youth.
Overview
Location
Belgium, Antwerp, Berchem
Employees
1-10
Founded date
2008
Mentions in press and media 7
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| Aug 14, 2012 | Drupal Company Acquires Akismet Competitor Mollom To Kill Spam Dead | Today Acquia, the company co-founded by Drupal creator Dries Buytaert to commercialize the open source content management system, acquired Mollom, a spam filtering service also co-founded by Buytaert. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. A... |
| Jul 9, 2009 | Mollom Blocks Its 100 Millionth Spam Message | Mollom, a spam prevention tool that competes with Automattic’s Akismet, has blocked a stunning 100,000,000 spam messages from appearing on websites, social networks and blogs since the product was introduced about 14 months ago. Given that ... |
| May 19, 2009 | European Social Network Netlog To Use Mollom's Spam Filtering Tool | Spam filtering tool Mollom, a competitor to Automattic’s Akismet, has struck a deal to filter messages and comments for Netlog, one of Europe’s fastest growing social networks. Mollom will be filtering more than 4 million messages in over 2... |
| Mar 12, 2009 | Plugg wraps with two very capable winnners | So Plugg, the European startups conference in Brussels today (organised by TechCrunch writer Robin Wauters) wrapped up with two overall winners of their startup competition, and if I do say so myself they were pretty worthy. The overall win... |
| Nov 21, 2008 | TechCrunch Euro Tour 08: Yes, even Belgium has startups | A couple of weeks ago I headed over to Belgium as part of my ongoing TechCrunch Euro Tour, to get a taste of the local web/mobile entrepreneur community just in time for Father’s Day (BTW, come to the London and Helsinki events soon). I hoo... |
| Apr 20, 2008 | Mollom May Soon Offer Serious Competition To Akismet | Mollom is a new blog spam prevention tool that’s shaping up to be serious competition to Automattic’s Akismet, the current market leader. Belgium based Mollom was founded earlier this year by Dries Buytaert, the founder and project lead of ... |
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FAQ about Mollom
When was Mollom founded?
Mollom was founded in 2008.
What has the press written about Mollom?
Parsers VC has collected 7 articles mentioning Mollom, among them “Drupal Company Acquires Akismet Competitor Mollom To Kill Spam Dead” (Aug 14, 2012) and “Mollom Blocks Its 100 Millionth Spam Message” (Jul 9, 2009).
Is Mollom still active?
Yes, Mollom is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 7, 2014.