Complete list of the best free online dating sites
AshleyMadisonDating is an american online dating service for having affairs. Adultery or "cheating" site who is controversial and popular in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. AshleyMadison has lots of free options. AsleyMadison is a competitor of Mate1.com and SecondLove.
A Foreign Affair: the online dating site with the most original name pecialises in « foreign affairs » between Western american and european daters, mostly men, with Asian, South American and Eastern European partners, mostly women.
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AfrikaDating.com has members living in Kenya, Nigeria, South-Africa, Ghana, Benin, Malawi and mostly English-speaking countries of the African continent. AfrikaDating is a free dating site. |
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AfroIntroductions.com is a popular datingsite for the African continent. It is linked with 20 million members through the Cupid Media network. You can find lots of African personals online. Browsing is free, communication through email and chat is paid. Afro Introductions is a division of Cupid Media Network, a network of datingsites who focuses on target groups and niche markets based on ethnicity, sexual preference, religion, physical appearance, or special interests. 15 million customers in total are member of one of the Cupidmedia dating sites in Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe,the USA, Canada, Australia and the Pacific. |
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Alarena.com is a dating site for Africans |
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Americansingles.com: 5 million members makes americansingles.com one of the datingplaces with the most members in the US. |
Some features are for free |
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AmoLatina is a dating site for Latin-America and Spain. |
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AsiaFriendFinder who promises « Love, friendship and more » seems to be the largest online dating site for the Asian region, having 10 millions of male and female member looking for the love of their life. AsiaFriendFinder (or AFF) gives a very secure platform for online dating and chatting. It has all the tools, blog, chat, profile search to connect Asians living in China, Japan, the Phillipines, Malaysia, Middle East, Africa, Australia and Oceania for friendship , romance and marriage. You can crat your personal Hotlist with your favourite contacts. Video is possible, and voice messages as wel. Silver membership is only 15$ month. |
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Asia, China, Japan, the Phillipines, Malaysia, Middle East |
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Asian People Meet an important dating site for the Asian region |
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AsianBeauties.com matches single ladies from Asia, the Philippines with western men from the US and Europe for romantic relationships. Profile pictures of 10,000 women who are online are in fact small videos. Chatting windows are possible. Note that the Chinese Valentine day is not on february the 14th, but August the 16th. To bridge the language barrier, the site even offers phone translation. All that to « Find your princess », as the site says. Tools are well developped: email system, search engine, live chat. You can even send flowers and gifts through AsianBeauties.com |
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Asia, Philippines, Malaysia, Korea |
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be.Amoureux.com: Small french-speaking dating service of Brussels, Paid: to communicate (by chat, by mail) |
free search in profiles pictures. |
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Black Christian People Meet is a datinplace specific for christian black people, mainly in the USA. |
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Free browsing |
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Casual Kiss: Casual Kiss is a social networking and dating site with international large connections for young people. Trendy and hip interface with much students online. Most popular in Canada and the USA, with funny categories: in « Religion » you can choose « Jedi Knight ». In relationship wanted: « Taken and play ». Mostly english-speaking people. |
Free dating site |
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chemistry.com: Chemistry.com is a datingservice of Match.com based on matching people. The extensive questionnaire and personality test, leads to a match between people. The profiles of online daters are not searchable. |
50$ a monthc |
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China, Asia, Philippines, India |
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Christian Cafe, meeting place only for christian men and women looking for marriage. |
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connectingsingles.com |
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cupidbay: Old datingsite that now offers ads for other dating sites. |
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Date Hookup: Date Hookup is a free dating service, like Plentyoffish.com. Not much features, very direct. |
Free |
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date.com: Date.com was one of the first online dating services, launched in 2007, and has a huge database of 9 million members. Datecom helps you find a seroius relationship, but seems to be surpassed by the newer projects. Date.com has an alliance with Match.com. |
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iii.in is a very big dating site in India, whoe offer free dating and video chat.
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Dating Direct: Dating Direct, the UK version of Meetic, is known as the biggest online dating site in the United Kingdom. Dating Direct has around 6 million single members, which is about 10 % of the UK population. The interface of Dating Direct is excellent, it leads you to play around and search in a very intuitive way. The differente features lead quickly up to a list of several « favorite » profiles. Those people get an email that you have visited their profiles. This leads up to contact between online daters. Simple interface to quickly start. You can put your pictures online and even record a video to present you. Search criteria include age, region, keywords. Matching service is called Affinity. You can ask questions to people visiting your profile with the « Personal Quiz ». Sometimes more than 10.000 daters online active at Dating Direct. |
Free profile search , free picture upload, free poking. Mailing is paid |
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DatingDirectaffinity: English-spoken version of Meetic MeetAffinity for longer-term relations |
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DatingFunda pretends to be the only (!) free online single dating site in India, online since 2003. Datingfunda.com proposes browsing of profiles and has an important dating forum. Most of members. Singels search for friendship, matchmaking, romance. DatingFunda is a matrimonial dating service. Most female members are from Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. Much daters are looking for aunties, but we really don't know what that code name stands for. Members can post videos on their profile. |
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India, Delhi, Mumbai |
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Dreammatches: Dreammatches is a datingsite that selects people, based on their profile picture. Only the « beautiful people » get their « name on the list ». |
searching for profiles is free |
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Dreammates.com: Dreammates.com is a matchmaking site to find a fiance, and eventually a partner to marry with. |
Profiles free |
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e-matching: Dating for highly educated men and women |
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EasyFlirt: Easyflirt claims to have more than 12 million daters as a member. aims at different kind of love relationships: one-night stands, shorter or longer serious relationships |
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eHarmony.com: eHarmony helps you find a long term relationship by matching of personality tests, based on 30 dimensions, in order to get a traditional comitted relationships between compatible partners. You can not search online profiles, but if you fill in the detailed questionnaire, you receive a list of people who match with you, have the same expectations about long-term relationships and are looking for the personality characteristics that you have. eHarmony thinks personality is more important than physical appearances, which is quite different from most online dating services, where the pictures, and the beauties, are in the first place. Answering the long questionnaire takes a lot of time, but eventually produces some interesting results. eHarmony only proposes heterosexual relationships. |
60$ a month |
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EliteMeeting.com: Online dating site that focuses on the wealthy and rich of this planet. Baseline is « Dating for the successfull and attractive ». One of the Ads of EliteMeeting.com is « Date wealthy women ». Why not? |
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Facebook review: With 1 billion members, most of them with pictures, Facebook is taking the place of classic datingsites. Off course, people don't go to Facebook only to date, but the free profile search and free poking, messaging, and meeting tends to replace the functions of dating sites. facebook.com facebook.us facebook.co.uk facebook.fr facebook.in facebook.cn bacebook.br facebook.sa |
Free inscription, Free « profile search », free messaging, Facebook is free. |
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Filipina Heart Philippines-based online dating with personals of Philippina women seeking mariage, friendship and romance. Visitors of live in United States, Philippines, South Korea, Canada, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. |
Free browsing of personals |
Philippines, USA |
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Freenet.de or freenetSingles review: Very good and popular German datingsite. Has million of members, a very active forum and much visited SinglesBlogs. |
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Germany, Austria, Switzerland |
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FriendFinder : You could call Friendfinder the online dating service of the south of the globe. Friend Finder is one of the first dating sites, established in 1998, a popular dating site with a very international community, much people of India, Indonesia, China, Pakistan and Philippines. |
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Fropper : 90% Indian social networking and dating site. Connecting Indians all over the world, especially fron Saudi-Arabia and Indians living in the US. Fresh interface. |
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Gay dating Adam4Adam : Adam4Adam.com is the most popular gay dating site, followed by the rival Manhunt.net and Manhunt.com. |
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helemaaljijFlirt.com review |
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http://orkut.co.in/is the most popular social network in India |
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http://www.anastasiadate.com/ is a dating site that links Russian and Ukranian ladies to western men and women. Anastasiadate belongs to the same network of international dating as AsianBeauties.com. Anastasia organises a beauty contest as well. |
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Russia, Ukrania, Belarus |
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If you know a online dating service that is not yet in this list, please let us know at editors@datesbook.org. |
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Indian Matrimonial Network is focused on marriage in India through a forum with hundreds of visitors. www.indianmatrimonialnetwork.com/
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IndianDating.com for « Indian matrimonials » or « Indian dating », is online since 2000, and states to be the number 1 Indian datesite where young Indians and Americans meet. Indiandating focuses on hindu dating, and has 90% of members living in India, and 10% in the USA and the UK. Indiandating is one of the largest indian dating websites, who organises singles events as well. The interface ressembles Western dating-sites. Indian Dating screens profiles for safety and security. |
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JCMATCH is a datingsite specifically for Jewish men and women, a rival of JDate. |
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just2match |
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Kamasutradating.com is a naughty Indian Dating site for singles. The dating site propose « interracial Kamasutra Dating », whatever that may be.
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LatinEuro Introductions is an international dating service where American and European men can meet and date with thousands Latin, Brazilian, Columbian, Mexican, and Dominican girls. The site proposes different communication tools for dating, love, romance and marriage.
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Brazilian, Colombian, Mexican. , Argentine, Dominican Republic |
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Lavalife.com: A quite original and mainly anglosaxon dating service Lavalife has rapidly adapted its online dating service to mobile phones. Based on the type of relationship you are looking for, Lavalife offers 3 different groups for their 6 million of members: short-term relationships, called « Adult Dating, serious long-term relationships, called « Relationships », and the more physical kind of relation called « Intimate encounters ». This is something specific of Lavalif: you can have at the same time a casual profile, and a «serious » profile. That way you don't annoy yourself while waiting for the love of your life; -) Lavalif allows easily to put pictures and videos online on your profile. A very good and original dating site. Lavalife is very popular in Canada, and has some orginal features, such as video chat. |
Answering messages is free, which is particular |
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LavaPlace a dating site with thousands of members internationnaly. |
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Love From India is an Indian datingsite with international connections. |
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LoveAndSeek.com: Dating site for christian singles, mainly english-speaking. Competitor to Christian-Mingles.com |
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Manhunt.net (for gay men) |
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match-dating.eu: European site of the american dating service Match.com |
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Match: With 15 million of members one of the top and probably the largest online datingservice in the world, but mainly in anglosaxon countries. Match is a very secure dating site, all communication like messaging, mail, can be anonymized. Very easy to use. The search options are very elaborate. A lots of marriages happened starting with Match. Match proposed matches, but now proposes the freedom to search as well. Match absorbed the daters of Live MSN Dating and Yahoo Personals. |
35 $ a month |
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MatchMaker: MatchMaker is an online service that exists from the beginning of the Internet aims at people who are looking for marriage. |
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Matchmate.ca : The Canadian website of the creator of Plentyofish.com. The man changed the world of paid dating sites by making his completely free dating site, which has a very big success. The interface is vintage, but very efficient and in some way comforting. The free personals site has a free local chatroom as well. chatting,photo rating, music,video sharing great place to help connecting singles. Matchmate has a special « single parents » section . Matchmate works with Google Adsense ads. Everything is free: free profiles search, free mailing, free messenging |
Totally 100% free online dating site |
Canada, USA. |
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Matrimonials India focuses on mariage, with a matchmaking services to find the ideal wedding partner. These matrimony sites seem to be more popular than the western « dating » sites. The site helps people to find a christian, muslim or hindu matrimonial service. Members live in India. |
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Meetic Belgie review: The Belgian dutch-speaking section of the Meetic datingsite group. Interesting for european singles who live in the capital of Europe, Brussels. |
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Belgium, France |
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Meetic France review: Meetic has become a group of different brands in european countries (for the complete list see here on Meetic's site http://www.meetic-corp.com/en/brands.html);. The French Meetic group operates under different names in the European countries, and the interface is lsightly different as well.
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Meetic Live review : The Live party service of Meetic. Meetic organises singles parties in major European cities. You can meet up with someone you met on the Meetic dating site, or just go there and dance among hundreds of young singles. |
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France, Belgium, Switzerland |
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MeeticAffinity.be: Meetic spin-off for longer -term relationships, proposes matches between online daters based on « affinities », common interests and hobbies. Exists in the UK under the name Dating Direct Affinity. |
free search in profiles pictures |
France, Belgium, Switserland |
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MSN-Dating review: Dating.MSN.com is the dating section of the website of Microsoft MSN, who became Microsoft Live. Integrates with Microsoft Live Messenger and people can date through Windows Live Mail. Dating on MSN has become integrated with long-standing dating website Match.com. Quite ironically, both MSN users and Yahoo users find themselves for dating on Match.com. |
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MyTownDate.com |
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OkCupid.com: is a free search engine. When you fill in a questionnaire, it proposes automatically some matching profiles. You can make a questionnaire yourself as wel. OKCupid ressembles a mix of online dating and social networking, such as Bebo or Facebook. |
Free dating site |
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one2see |
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Paiq dating review: Online dating service that proposes matches based on psychology test. |
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PerfectMatch.com: PerfectMatch starts with a personality profile based on the answers you give. PerfectMatch helps you find a perfect match for a long-term relation. |
60$ a month |
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Plentyoffish.com review or POF: Plentyoffish or POF is a free and the number 1 most popular American dating site in 2010. Paradoxically, it is run by one single man, called Markus Friend. Has the simpliest interface of all online dating. Is text based, free to use. The notepad of dating, popular amongst geeks, with a very, very active forum. |
free |
USA, Canada, Australia |
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Q-date or Q-dating.com: Q-dating is a site, french and dutch speaking for meeting men and women the same night in a casual date. |
profiles browsing free |
Belgium |
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Qdating: Qdating is a Facebook application that lets you write a questionnaire for potential dating candidats. The app is not developped by Facebook itself. You can fill in the dating quiz of an interesting person and see if you responds to his of her relationship criteria. |
free |
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Rencontres.Meetic.be: French version of Meetic (Affinity?) |
free search in profiles pictures |
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RSVP: Very popular Australian dating site, one of the rare dating sites with more woman members than men. 1,6 millions singles in search for love, relationships and friendship. The RSVP dating site offers some quite interesting news about dating and lifestyle as well. Among the top-100 sites of Australia, the most important site of the site of Southport. What's going on there down under? |
Free profile browsing |
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Russianlovematch.com announces «thousands of the hottest Russian brides » and also Ukrainian women who are seeking friendship, romance and marriage. An online gift shop and the possibility of tour packages to Russia and Ukrainia are available. RussianLoveMatch.com verifies profiles: All women are « validated » to prevent scamming.
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Russia, Ukrainia. |
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SecondLove review: Meeting place for people who already are in a relationship, but are looking for a passionate second partner. |
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Senior dating: 50plusmatch.be: Dating for men and women older than 50 years. |
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SeniorPeopleMeet : Seniorpeoplemeets.com is the most popular dating site amongst seniors and older men and women looking for a date or relationship. Seniorpeoplemeet is one of the 10 most popular dating-services in the USA. |
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Shaadi.com is among India's 100 most visited websites and ranked as the largest and most visited matrimonial service in the world. About 30 million people have been member of the indian matrimony site who is online since 1996. It's among the top 30 websites of Indian cities Pune and Bombay/Mumbai. Shadi has a more international audience, than most Indian matrimony sites. Lots of members on www.shaadi.com are from the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, the UK and Australia. It has helped thousands of people to find a bride or a broom for a happy marriage. Shaadi is available in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Marwari, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Among selection criteria you will find « religion », « mother tongue » and « caste ». |
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India, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, the UK and Australia |
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Gratis profielen bekijken, oto's plaatsen |
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Singlesnet: Singlenet is an online dating site which has millions of visitors of the 45+ generation. Style is american. Answering the entire questionnaire is necessary before being able to browse profiles. |
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Smartdate review: smartdate is a fresh new datingsite, launched in 2010. Smartdate.com proposes an « easier, and more authentic way to meet people online ». The idea was the following: « Nowadays, every is on Facebook, but facebook is not suited for dating ». Smartdate takes the facebook technologies to apply it to a natural dating site. Smart-date is relying on a powerful search engine to help their members find easily a matching partner.
Smartdate (smartdate.fr) is launching sites in Belgium (smartdate.be), Spain (smartdate.es), the Netherlands and the USA (smartdate.us). Smartdate is from the creator of Be2. SmartDate has run some interesting radical ads
Read an article of The Washington Post about Smartdate. Read an article of The Guardian on how Smartdate builds upon the data of Facebook.
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Spark.com: Spark.com or Spark.net is a dating-site for men and women who have the same religion or belong to the same community. The matching of profiles is based on common values and lifestyles. The site offers dating for gay and heterosexually oriented people and very open to modern lifestyles. |
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Tiscali Dating: Dating service of Internet provider Tiscali |
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True.com: True.com is a romantic dating site, that searches for your « true love ». People who are married are not allowed. True.com had the largest market share in the US, and a high percentage of female members online. |
searching profiles is free |
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Vanilla-Love.com is one of the Russian sites for friendship, romance, dating and marriage of Russian women, mainly with men in Europe and the US. Most personals are from Ukranian or Russian ladies and brides. Most of the female members are between 20 and 30 years old, live in Russia, Ukrania or Belarus and some of them are really beautiful, top models actuall. Couples can look for a third partner as well. Russian brides tries to assure the safety and provide a secure dating environment. Some of them are looking for foreign men with a picture in swimsuit. |
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Belarus, Ukraine, Rusia |
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WestEastCafe: Recently launched, cool and hip, special online « Europ ean » datingsite that promotes encounters, friendships and love affairs of people living in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Imagine a trendy café somewhere in the historical centre of Prague, full of young beautiful cute backpackers. |
100 % Free of charge |
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www.online-dating-ukraine.com
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Yahoo! Personals review: The friends and dating service of famous search-engine Yahoo, with a very large group of people registered. Yahoo uses their search technology for their matching system. Yahoo Personals stopped their dating service in 2010 and linked with Match.com. Yahoo users could migrate their Y!Personal profile to the datingsite Match. |
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Zoosk.com and Facebook.com |
Zoosk: Popular dating app of Facebook and other social networking sites such as Bebo and Myspace. Zoosk is tuned for dating on mobile phones, such as IPhone and BlackBerry. |
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Amigos.com is
the most popular online dating site for Latino and Latina singles. Amigos.com
figures among the top-20 of dating sites internationally. The free chat
section of amigos, chat.amigos.com, is tremendously popular amongst Latino
men looking for « mujeres ». Amigos is the dating
site of Spanish-speaking people of Latin-America, Hispanics in the US,
and Spanish single women from all over the world. « Amor y romance
para latinos en el mundo », is the baseline of Amigo.com, which
is particularly popular in Bresil, Peru, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile,
Costa Rica, Mexico and Argentina. Amigos.com is part of the FreindFinder.com
group. 
BBPeopleMeet:
Big and Beautiful, that is what the « BB » in
BBPeople stands for. An online site specially for people with some pounds
more. Popular, BBPMeet is one of the top-20 american dating sites. 
Blackpeoplemeet.com: Blackpeoplemeet.com
is a dating service very popular amongst Afro-American residents of the
USA, Canada, UK and India, mainly above 35. 
ChnLove.asi offers
Premier Chinese dating with more than 10.000 personals traditional and
sweet Chinese women and decent ladies who look for dating, romance, friendship,
love, partnerships, marriages and more with western single men. The system
is quite different from other dating sites. The information of the Chin
ese members is verified by local agencies in China. Communications are
followed up. ChnLove is also known as Chinese-Lady.com. 
Christian
Mingle.com: Christian Mingle offers « christian dating »,
whatever that may be. The community says to be steadily growing, with
more than 1.000 new members each day. The online dating site ranks effectively
amongst the 20 biggest online datingsites in the world. It reassures its
new female members that « We believe that embracing what God
said allows us to live in freedom, joy, and purpose ». The
datingsite focuses on « friends, romance and marriages ».
Nothing casual, short-term or physical one-night stands here. Married
people click on to other locations. Which is different from other datingsites,
is that on 90% of profile pictures, people are smiling. 
Geek2Geek: Geek2Geek
is online dating that aims at geeks, nerdy powerusers of the Internet 
JDate: JDate
is a dating site that focuses since 10 years on Jewish Singles for finding
a love relationship or a marriage. Dating sites for people based on a community
or their religious or lifestyle views are becoming increasingly popular.
JDate has been ranked among the 20 most popular dating platforms in 2010.
JDate makes it possible to find friends, make connections, date and find
a soul mate amongst the thousands of members in your country and around
the world. Features include the posting of photos, email, chat, IM. JDate
reassures that all tools ar « all within the faith »,
and organises travel trips.The Jewish dating service of J Date is very
popular in the United States, Israel, Canada and the United Kingdom. New
York and Los Angeles are cities JDate is very popular in. There are much
young female surfers who login on JDate. 
Loveawake.com is
a free Indian dating site, where you can immediately browse the profiles
to find local friendship, dating and love. As such Loveawake is a competitor
to the 100% free PlentyOfFish.com. There are about 30.000 Indian men registered,
and only 400 women. Jeezes christ ! 
Mate1.com: Mate1.com
is an online dating site for « intimate dating » in
the US. This datingsite for intimate and discreet encounters has been becoming
quite popular, and entered in the top-20 of the US most visited datingsites.
With the baseline « Meet someone today », it is quite
clear the site is more for casual short term dates rather than err, mariage. 
OnlineBootyCall.com: OnlineBootyCall,
the name says it all. This dating place is for the people looking for fast
and casual sexdates. The datingsite is becoming increasinly popular in
hte US, where it ranks amongst the top-20 « dating » sites. 
The
profiles of smartdate integrate very well with Facebook, for even more
dates. Smartdate can download all pictures and information of Facebook,
also the « friends of your friends ». Smartdate says « it's
free to get started »: you can make a profile 100% free to start
browsing other profiles. Smartdate is getting new members very fast: 5000
new profiles every day, in less than a year they have 1,6 million profiles,
of which % is men and % is woman. Most members look like very active thirty-somethings
and forty-somethings. The French datingsite got the biggest growth in online
dating, or « rencontre en ligne » as the French say,
and becomes as such a competitor for long-established dating site Meetic. 
SpeedDate.com: Speeddate.com
is for the fast and furious of this planet. Based on picture and webcam
ranking, it connects fastly the mobile and impatient daters looking for
a partner. Speedate is rising fast as well amongst the moste popular dating
services. Can be linked to your Facebook login and account. 
The
very bright and colourful MastiDating.com is a free Indian
site for singles, created « for the people, by the people »,
MastiDating offers chat, messenging, email, dating links and singles events. « Each
year desi, thousands of singles look for dates, love and relationships.
The Indian site has a very extensive numerology section. 
