is a popular
Usenet /
Newsgroup service provider. Founded in 1998, Giganews service is available to individual users through a
Subscription Model and as an
Outsourced service to
Internet Service Providers . Giganews currently offers service to over 10 million
Broadband users in 180 countries. Well-known ISPs that have outsourced Usenet access to Giganews include
Comcast ,
BT , WOW! (
Wide Open West ), and
Kingston Communications .
According to
www.top1000.org , the combined weight of Giganews' servers makes Giganews the most peered Usenet server currently online.
Starting in early 2006, the
Mozilla Foundation ’s newsgroup hierarchy was sponsored by Giganews.
Giganews traffic is
Peered at
Equinix in
Ashburn in
Loudoun County ,
Virginia as well as
AMS-IX and
NL-IX in The
Netherlands .
In the summer of 2005, Giganews provided open Usenet access to attendees of the
What The Hack conference in The Netherlands.
Article retention in binary groups is being increased to 200 days over the summer of 2007.
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