Delfi (web portal)

Delfi is the name of several online news magazines in the Baltics. The daily updated, the same news sites are the most visited websites in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

History

Delfi was established by the Estonian company MicroLink 1999. In 2003 it was sold to the Norwegian company Findexa before it for 54 million euros came into the possession of the Estonian media group Ekspress Grupp 2007. The portal operates in the languages ​​Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian delfi.ee among the domains delfi.lv and delfi.lt also appear in all three countries versions Russian editions ( rus.delfi.ee, rus.delfi.lv and rus.delfi. lt). Since 2007, next to a Ukrainian version ( delfi.ua ). There are offices in Moscow, Kaliningrad, Warsaw, and Stockholm. Moreover refers delfi news from Baltic News Service and other news agencies.

Comments by users

As one of the first Baltic portals enabled delfi users the ability to attach your own comments to the article. The partial thousands of comments meant that were raised in the parliaments demands to make delfi liable for the comments of the anonymous user. In some cases, real people were held responsible for their comments. One such case was a young woman who had threatened the Euro Vision Song Contest to blow up in 2003.