News-Service.com History 

On this page you'll find a short summary of the the history of News-Service.com and some important Usenet events.

2009

News-Service.com takes the #1 position as largest Usenet distributor worldwide. News-Service.com expands network with 10GE to Frankfurt, Germany. News-Service.com moves office to new location at Amsterdam-Zuidoost. A full newsfeed has now become over 5 Terabyte per day.

2008

News-Service Europe B.V. (News-Service.com) has taken over the network infrastructure from Support Net B.V.. News-Service.com announces binary retention upgrade to 160 days. News-Service.com ranks #3 in top1000.org. Move to new datacenter to facilitate future growth.

2007

News-Service.com announces binary retention upgrade to 85+ days. News-Service.com #4 in top1000.org. Full newsfeed has now become over 300 Mbit/s and over 3 Terabyte per day.

2006

Second 10GE connection to AMS-IX into production. New website online. Binary retention upgrade to 30+ days. News-Service.com in top 10 at top1000.org.

2005

Germany is largest growth market. Binary retention upgrade to 14 days. Backbone upgrade to 10GE and first 10GE connection to AMS-IX into production. Connection to other Dutch internet exchange point NL-IX online. Load balancer put into production. First RADIUS customer online.

2004

Foundation of News-Service Europe B.V. (Dutch incorporated company). Binary retention upgrade to 12 days and 30 days for some popular newsgroups. A full newfeed has become over 100 Mbit/s. News-Service.com expands Usenet platform for large Dutch ISP.

2003

Expansion of datacenter, cooling capacity and redundant power. Development of our own, open source, nntp frontend software. Large Dutch cable ISP chooses for News-Service.com.

2002

New credit card system for Personal Accounting into production. News-Service.com builds Usenet platform for large Dutch ISP (cable).  

2001

Link to  AMS-IX (one of the largest European internet exchange points) upgrade from FastEthernet to GigabitEthernet.

2000

Move to bigger datacenter and bigger offices. Credit card suppliers formally accept transaction through the Internet in the Netherlands.

1998

Launch www.news-service.com website. News-Service.com starts selling accounts by credit card. First News-Service.com reseller and first ISP customer online.

1997

Domain registration of news-service.com.   

1996

Launch of News-only packages for Dutch markted sold by Support Net.

1995

Creation of nl-newsgroups.

1979

Birth of Usenet.