Here is a brief history of the events leading up to the current DotNetNuke.co.uk and some of the products and services we hope to release for 2012.

In January 2002, Microsoft Corporation published a download named the IBuySpy Portal to demonstrate how to implement specific functionality on the new ASP.NET 1.0 platform.  The kits, which provided full source code under a liberal EULA, were functional, but very simplistic, and were intended to aid programmers in developing projects of their own. Salar Golestanian the founder of SalarO was then developing content managed sites for his clients using Ibuy Spy and had number of larger commercial projects on that platform.

On December 24th, 2002, Shaun Walker, a DNN Corp. Founder, released a modified version of the original IBuySpy portal application. The release, which was posted as a link on the Microsoft ASP.NET Forums, included a variety of enhancements and innovations over the original code, including the ability to support multiple portals from a single installation, a feature which became very popular in the shared web hosting market. This was a land mark which allowed much more flaxibility to iBuySpy project. 

In the weeks following Walker’s Version 1 DotNetNuke release, thousands of developers from around the world downloaded the code, provided feedback, and created the foundation for an active and loyal development community.   After a number of rapid releases, the application was renamed DotNetNuke on February 28, 2003. The DotNetNuke name was chosen to reflect the application’s roots in the .NET Framework, coupled with the term “nuke,” due to its industry-wide association with open source web content management systems. Salar Golestanian with Shaun Walker's approval purchased dotnetnuke.co.uk and has proactively maintained and promoted the platform here in UK.  

In 2012 SalarO through dotnetnuke.co.uk will be launching a commercial Hosting Organization purely specializing on DotnetNuke. We would be giving news for this in the next two months and hope to launch the service in June 2012. This will help UK customers that look for solid hosting solution in UK rather than current trend that most of the hosting is done in US. The other to-do task for this year is to kick start a User Group for UK with main link from dotnetnuke.co.uk.

Now a little about SalarO which is a respected UK web consultancy with a proven record in DotNetNuke WCMS and System Integration expertise for ‘.Net’, E-Commerce. We possess the necessary skills to create mobile apps for iOS/Android that can communicate with your WCMS or E-commerce portal. We are also developing a range of custom modules, extensions & templates for DNN and nopCommerce.

SalarO helps businesses turn their ideas into elegantly crafted web solutions. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Guildford, Surrey UK, Salaro has a long and established history in Design, Software development and Consulting. Today, Salaro specializes in Enterprise-level Skinning and both Module and ecommerce development, leveraging the scalability and flexibility of the DotNetNuke/nopCommerce CMS framework for medium and large businesses. Engage continues to maintain a leadership role in the DNN community as an expert provider of development, skinning and implementation services as well as a producer of top-selling commercial modules and skins.