[2] The name "Egloo" is derived from the word "igloo" and represented a personal online home for its users' lives.
This allowed them to download their posts, attached images, and files from the website before they were permanently deleted from Egloos's servers.
The site was reported to have around 1 million users,[4] but lost users to foreign blogging sites in 2009 due to concerns regarding the South Korean government's monitoring of its citizens' web-browsing behavior.
[5] The Korea Times also stated this in their news article: "Since April 1 (2009), the government mandated Internet users to make verifiable real-name registrations on all Web sites with more than 100,000 daily visitors, which means they have to submit their resident registration codes, the Korean equivalent of social security numbers."
[citation needed] The Blog allowed censorship of the posting censored by the site administrator under certain circumstances.