The site started as a single-person private Dutch-language site on Dutch civic heraldry in 1996, and expanded rapidly to cover all countries in the world as "International civic heraldry", the present name was adopted in 2010. The main language changed to English and only the Dutch part is still largely in Dutch. The site is maintained by the webmaster, but the number of contributors is much larger. To facilitate contribution by others the site was transferred since 2010 to a wiki-environment. It still is largely a single-person effort, with 3 editors only.
