''Vísir.is'' is an

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

online newspaper An online newspaper (or electronic news or electronic news publication) is the electronic publishing, online version of a newspaper, either as a stand-alone publication or as the online version of a printed periodical literature, periodical. Goin ...

. It was founded in 1998 by Frjáls fjölmiðlun ehf and officially opened on 1 April the same year. It originally published news from the newspapers ''

Dagblaðið Vísir ''DV'' (''Dagblaðið Vísir'') is an online newspaper in Iceland published by Torg ehf. It came into existence as a daily newspaper in 1981 when two formerly independent newspapers, Vísir and Dagblaðið, merged. Early on it was one of the lar ...

'', ''

Viðskiptablaðið ''Viðskiptablaðið'' (English: ''The Business Paper'') is an Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and E ...

'' and ''Dagur''. On 1 December 2017 it was bought by Fjarskipti hf. (later Sýn) along with

Stöð 2 Stöð 2, literally Station 2, was an Icelandic subscription television channel. Founded in 1986, it was the first privately owned television station in Iceland following the lifting of the state monopoly on television broadcasting. Sister chan ...

and Bylgjan from

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. According to Gallup, it was the second-most popular website in Iceland as of February 2021.

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* Icelandic news websites {{iceland-newspaper-stub