[2] The launch of the website received great attention and within a month, a third of the population had applied for access to the database.
The winning team, named Sad Engineers Studio, received a prize of one million IKR.
[8] Access to the Íslendingabók website is limited to individuals with Icelandic national identity number, kennitala.
[11] The database is used in deCODE’s research on an anonymous form where names and identifications of individuals have been removed in a process overseen by the Icelandic Data Protection Authority.
If any discrepancies between genetic and genealogic information are discovered in the research, the data is simply removed from the study and no corrections are made on the database.
Equal emphasis is on plowing through historical data as maintaining information on the current population, adding newborns and updating connections and relationship.
Newspaper reports and discussions on the Web indicate that families actively search for genealogical connections during informal social occasions, including dinner parties.