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Giganews, Inc.

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Type Private
Founded 1998 in Austin, Texas
Headquarters Austin, Texas

<tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Industry</th><td>Telecommunications</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Products</th><td>Usenet</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Website</th><td>www.giganews.com</td></tr>

Giganews, Inc 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, 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 reached 90 days in early October 2006. [1].

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