Phantis:FAQ
About Phantis
Where is Phantis physically located?
Phantis is based in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. Norristown is a town approximately 25 miles outside the city of Philadelphia, the 5th largest city of the United States.
The mailing address fro Phantis is:
Decision Group, Inc.
c/o Phantis
P.O Box 176
Eagleville, PA 19408
USA
Who owns Phantis?
Phantis is a division of Decision Group, Inc., a marketing consulting company established in 1991, incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania.
The President and founder of Decision Group, Inc. is Mr. Lazarus Sismanis.
When and why was Phantis created?
Phantis was introduced to the public on May 1, 1997. It was one of the first ever services dedicated to archiving and indexing information pertaining to content related to Greece and the Greek diaspora -- or as we like to call it: Greek Cyberspace.
The images to the right show what Phantis looked like when it was first introduced.
How can I get in touch with Phantis?
By e-mail: Contact Phantis using the online Feedback Form
By telephone: You can reach Phantis by dialing: 610-631-5361 (and whatever country codes are required for calling the USA from where you reside, affixed prior to the above number.
By postal mail - send and inquiries to:
Decision Group, Inc.
c/o Phantis
P.O. Box 176
Eagleville, PA 19408
USA
The Directory
What is the Phantis Directory?
The Phantis Directory is an index of web sites related to Greece or to people of Greek descent.
The Directory is compiled by the Phantis people with information collected either through surfing the Internet or by proccessing Site Registrations submitted by individuals that own or represent a web site.
How is the directory organized?
he Phantis Directory is organized in two ways:
- By Category: All listings are organized in categories and subcategories representing the broad nature of content of each individual site.
- By Country: All listings are organized in country listings. Where applicable and if available, the country where the web site is based, or the country where the headquarters of a business resides, is used as the country under which a particular web site will be listed.
How does Phantis obtain the information listed in the directory?
The information that we list within the directory is obtained either through site registrations, or it is information that our people come across while browsing the World Wide Web - an activity that we constantly engage in.
I found some dead links in the directory. How often do you check their validity?
Phantis utilizes a robot mechanism that checks sites and listings for their validity once every month.
If our robot returns a 'reading' other than '200' (which means the site is OK), then the site is put on a flagged sites list and will be manually verified by the Phantis people.
My site was listed in the Phantis directory a little while ago, but now I don't see it. Why?
Our robot validates links in the directory approximately once a month. If the robot returns a validation reading other than '200' (which means the site is OK), then the site is automatically flagged out for manual validation.
During that period and until manual validation completes the particular web site listing is unavailable to the public. If our people verify that the site is still operative, then the site is placed once again in the directory listings.