Whois & Analysis for elfster.com

Elfster is a proprietary software application providing social networking features related to "secret Santa" style gift exchanges.

It is available, without charge, as software as a service, via a website and via mobile apps for iOS and Android.

Secret Santa is a Western Christmas tradition in which members of a group or community are randomly assigned a person to whom they give a gift.

The identity of the gift giver is a secret not to be revealed.

A gift economy, gift culture, or gift exchange is a mode of exchange where valuables are not traded or sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards.

This contrasts with a barter economy or a market economy, where goods and services are primarily exchanged for value received.

Social norms and custom govern gift exchange.

Gifts are not given in an explicit exchange of goods or services for money or some other commodity.

A website is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name, and published on at least one web server.

A website may be accessible via a public Internet Protocol (IP) network, such as the Internet, or a private local area network (LAN), by referencing a uniform resource locator (URL) that identifies the site.

The terms "online" and "offline" have specific meanings in regard to computer technology and telecommunications in which "online" indicates a state of connectivity, while "offline" indicates a disconnected state.

Common vernacular extended from their computing and telecommunication meanings and refers specifically to an Internet connection.

Lastly, in the area of human interaction and conversation, discussions taking place during a business meeting are "online", while issues that do not concern all participants of the meeting should be "taken offline"—continued outside of the meeting.