Bomis is an Internet media company headquartered in
San Diego,
California. Bomis started
Nupedia and hired
Larry Sanger who, while working on Nupedia, got the idea for
Wikipedia. Bomis provides the webspace and bandwidth for these projects out of the goodness of
Jimbo Wales, who runs the place. Bomis also owns the few things related to the project that are not open source or open content (such as the [domain name]
?).