Box

What Box is

Box is a cloud content management website at box.com for storing, sharing, organizing, and protecting business files. It is used when documents need to move through teams, partners, approvals, and systems without becoming scattered across personal drives or email attachments.

Content management

The core idea is to treat files as managed business content rather than loose uploads. Box can hold documents, media, contracts, forms, and other files in shared folders with permissions, version history, search, previews, comments, and access controls around them.

Sharing and collaboration

Box supports internal and external collaboration by letting people share files or folders, comment on work, and control who can view, edit, download, or pass content along. Those controls matter because business files often need collaboration and restriction at the same time.

Workflow and automation

Many Box use cases are not just about storing a file. Teams may need to collect documents, route approvals, generate tasks, request signatures, archive records, or trigger work in another system. Workflow features turn content into part of a process instead of a passive folder.

Security and governance

Box is often used in organizations that care about access management, auditability, retention, data protection, and compliance review. Security settings cannot replace a good information policy, but they can help teams define who has access and what happens to sensitive content over time.

Apps and integrations

Box connects with productivity, communication, customer management, identity, security, analytics, and automation tools. Integrations are important because content rarely lives in isolation: a contract, presentation, invoice, or support file may need to appear inside several business workflows.

Who uses Box

Box is used by businesses, enterprise IT teams, legal teams, finance teams, sales organizations, healthcare and life sciences groups, media teams, government agencies, nonprofits, and companies that collaborate with outside partners. It is especially useful when files need both broad collaboration and careful permissions.

Setup choices

Setup choices include folder structure, user groups, sharing defaults, retention policies, identity provider connections, integration choices, device rules, and training for external collaboration. A clean setup can make Box feel simple; a messy setup can make even a powerful content platform difficult to trust.

Strengths and cautions

Box's strength is combining file storage with enterprise controls and workflow connections. The caution is that content management depends on governance habits. Teams still need naming conventions, permissions review, migration planning, backup expectations, and clear rules for sensitive or regulated information.

Why it matters

Box matters because files are still the working memory of many organizations. When documents are easy to find, share, approve, and protect, teams can move faster with less confusion. When content systems are poorly organized, people recreate shadow folders and lose confidence in the source of truth.

WHOIS domain data

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Domain

box.com

IP address

74.112.186.157

Registrar

MarkMonitor Inc.

WHOIS server

whois.markmonitor.com

Referral URL

http://www.markmonitor.com

Created

February 17, 1999

Updated

January 16, 2025

Expires

February 17, 2027

Nameservers

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Domain status

clientDeleteProhibited; clientTransferProhibited; clientUpdateProhibited; serverDeleteProhibited; serverTransferProhibited; serverUpdateProhibited

DNSSEC

signedDelegation

Registrant organization

Box, Inc.

Registrant country

US

Contact privacy

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