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{{Infobox website
| name = Disneydisney.com
| logo = Official_Disney.com_Logo.jpg
| logocaption = Official Disneydisney.com logo
| url = {{URL|disney.com}}
| commercial = Yes
| type = Entertainment
| language = English
| registration = N/A
| owner = [[The Walt Disney Company]]
| launch_date = {{start date and age|1996|2|12}}
| current_status = Active
}}
'''Disneydisney.com''' is a website operated by [[Disney Consumer Products|Disney Digital Network]], a division of [[The Walt Disney Company]], that promotes various Disney properties such as films, television shows{{DISPLAYTITLE: disney.com}}, and theme park resorts, and offers entertainment content intended for children and families.
 
For years, Disneydisney.com has been a very popular website: a survey back in April 1998 revealed that Disney.com had over 10% more unique visitors than [[ABCNews.com]], and the combined Disney/Infoseek websites were second in web traffic to leader ''Yahoo!'' that month.
<ref>"Exclusive: Disney-Infoseek Sites Reach One in Three" ([[web traffic]]),
Jupitermedia Corporation, 2006, webpage:
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The current portal is Disney's second effort at a web portal, the first being ended with the loss of [[go.com]].
 
On September 21, 2011, the content from Disneydisney.com was launched as a free channel available through the [[Roku]] streaming player. It is the first player so far to allow viewing through a television.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/story/disney-short-form-videos-now-available-on-roku-2011-09-21 Disney Short-Form Videos Now Available on Roku] Retrieved September 21, 2011</ref>
 
==History==
''Disneydisney.com'' was first registered on March 21, 1990.<ref>{{cite web|title=disney.com Whois|url=http://www.whois.com/whois/disney.com|work=.com Registry|publisher=Melbourne IT|access-date=6 December 2012}}</ref> On February 12, 1996, a ten-day preview of Disneydisney.com is launched through [[America Online]] and [[Netscape]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Aguilar |first=Rose |title=Mickey Mouse makes Web debut|url=http://news.cnet.com/Mickey-Mouse-makes-Web-debut/2100-1023_3-204514.html|access-date=6 December 2012|newspaper=CNET News|date=February 12, 1996}}</ref>
 
In January 2007 Disney CEO [[Bob Iger]] announced a major overhaul of Disney.com at the [[International CES|Consumer Electronics Show]]. The announced changes put a heavy emphasis on an integrated video player. Further changes were also announced to sort content based on visitor demographics and the addition of social networking features that would be [[Closed platform|monitored]] for appropriate content.<ref>{{cite web|last=Needleman|first=Rafe|title=Disney.com revamp coming, and not a moment too soon|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9674352-2.html|work=CNET|access-date=9 April 2013}}</ref>