The Green Day Authority is a fan site created in 2001 that is dedicated to being a central source for Green Day news and information. Created by fans for fans.

The Green Day Authority is not an official affiliate or representative of Warner Brothers Records, Reprise Records, Green Day or their management. You can contact us here.

Since the Green Day Authority was founded in 2001, over 45 million people have stopped by the site. That's approximately 90% with at least a passing interest in Green Day, and probaly 10% who probably clicked the wrong link from Google. Although our popularity grew with the 2004 release of Green Day's "American Idiot", there was a solid 4 year background of building the content that led to our success.

Back in the summer of 2000, Courtney Smith, was a bored college student. She had been running a Geocities site for her favorite actor, which eventually evolved into a page for some of her favorite bands. This was the foundation of GDA. While that original site didn't last, she started noticing that some of her favorite Green Day sites were going down. It was at that point she decided to make her own, which she simply named "Courtney's Green Day Page". After the release of Warning, and the song "Minority," she named the site "The Green Day Minority". As the page grew more popular, she decided it was time to focus on it exclusively. On July 4th of 2001, she bought the domain name "greendayauthority.com", hence changing The Green Day Minority to The Green Day Authority. GDA was officially launched on July 12, 2001.

For the next two years, Courtney worked with a co-webmaster, Matt. Both began adding new sections and researching details to flesh out the site, piling in content that was lacking in other websites. The goal was to build a central place for everything related to Green Day. In 2004, Andres Martinez joined the site as a news editor and fake-it-till-you-make-it web designer. By 2005 he became co-owner of the site and the main developer.

In 2004 we were sent a copy of American Idiot a week before it's September 21st release date. While some other sites posted download links to the album and were forced to take it down by Reprise legal teams, GDA decided to try and stream it on the site, not offering a download. It was 2004, MySpace was still king, and streaming music was still pretty early. We luckily avoided any legal trouble, and instead saw a giant influx of traffic. Prior to the release of American Idiot, we averaged around 1,000 visitors a day. Over the next 3 years, as our reputation and popularity grew, we would average almost 50,000 visitors per day.

In December 2009 the team welcomed Jeanette Newton as an owner and business manager for GDA. She began working with the team to make GDA a more financially sound business which will allow GDA to stay around for another decade.

We still strive to be the central place for everything related to this band, who remain a continual source of inspiration and enjoyment. We've stuck around because of our appreciation of the community which Green Day fans worldwide have helped us create, and we look forward to remaining a part of that community for as long as we can.

Coding Software: VSCode (2025). Originally notepad (2001). Then Microsoft Frontpage (2004). Then Dreamweaver (2005). Then CoffeeCup HTML Editor (2007) Then Sublime Text (2012).
FTP Software: WinSCP
Image Software: GIMP

Forum Software: Invision Power Board