Kaskus is an Indonesian Internet forum that describes itself as "the largest Indonesian community". Registration is required for new users to participate in the community, and every registered member has access to more than twenty regional and subject-related sub-forums. The community initially used the vBulletin forum but switched to a new engine they developed called "New Kaskus" in mid-2012. History Kaskus was created on November 6, 1999 by Indonesian students Andrew Darwis, Ronald Stephanus, Ken Dean Lawadinata and Budi Dharmawan. Kaskus was originally intended as an informal forum for abroad Indonesian students. The name Kaskus itself is an abbreviation of the word "Kasak-Kusuk" which translates to 'gibberish' or 'whispers'. PC Magazine Indonesia named Kaskus in August 2005 as being the best site and largest online community and in 2006, as the choice of readers in 2006. On May 23, 2006, the management was forced to change their .com domain to .us, due to the outbreak of the Brontok virus which was created with the aim of attacking large sites in Indonesia. By the beginning of April 2007, Kaskus management added two new Dell Servers to improve Kaskus's website performance. In July 2008, Kaskus management decided to operate the server in Indonesia. For this purpose, Kaskus purchased eight Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers and operated them via a network of open IXP. This resulted in multiplied access to Kaskus and eventually added eight more servers to handle the requests. In March 2008, after convincing his cousin Andrew to expand and create a proper business out of Kaskus, Ken Dean Lawadinata came on board as partner and CEO. PT Darta Media Indonesia was then created as the parent company of Kaskus. By the end of 2008 Kaskus went on a major expansion and changes in its product line and vision (including the closure of the forum's adult section and reformulation of the "debate club" forum due to Indonesian cybercrime laws, and its first redesign to coincidence that year's Independence Day) to become the largest forum in Indonesia, and reached its first million user base. That same year, the forum was involved in a feud with a local hacking community called YogyaFree, in which both websites were subjected to website defacements and distributed denial of service attacks by each other's users. In 2011, Kaskus management announced the expansion of its business by establishing a relationship of cooperation with the investment of Global Digital Prima