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unusual facts about ISP



.ki

From the early 1990s to the early 2000s the domain was managed on behalf of the Republic of Kiribati by an Australian ISP, Connect.com.au with the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, based in Honiara, Solomon Islands as original sponsor, then transferred to the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development of Kiribati and finally to the Ministry of Communications, Transport, and Tourism Development.

Anti-spam techniques

By monitoring spam reports from places such as spamcop, AOL's feedback loop, and Network Abuse Clearinghouse, the domain's abuse@ mailbox, etc., ISPs can often learn of problems before they seriously damage the ISP's reputation and have their mail servers blacklisted.

Arduino

(When used with traditional microcontroller tools instead of the Arduino IDE, standard AVR ISP programming is used.)

Boardwatch

Rickard was famed for his fiery editorials and "love/hate" relationship with many of the ISP industry's major players (including a controversial 1997 magazine cover about peering disputes which depicted John Sidgmore of UUNet attempting to blow up MAE-East in a scene reminiscent of the Oklahoma City bombing).

Business interaction networks

Mary Johnston Turner first discussed the concept in a Network World opinion piece in August, 1995, and attributed the first advocacy for the concept to the now-defunct BBN Planet, the ISP division of BBN Technologies.

Choruss

But file-sharing advocate and technology policy blogger Mike Masnick called this a "tax" on students that, when rolled out to ISPs instead of just universities, would usher in de facto compulsory licensing (e.g., every ISP customer subsidizing the file-sharing of a few).

ClarkNet

It was the first ISP to provide dial-up TCP/IP access (via SLIP or PPP) targeted for the home user in the Mid Atlantic region.

Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003

A copyright holder may obtain an injunction (Scots law: interdict) against an Internet service provider (ISP) who has "actual knowledge" of another person using their service to infringe copyright or a performer's right.

Corruption in Poland

The 2012 report from the ISP and TI report, reviewing individual Polish anti-corruption institution, praised the Supreme Audit Office (NIK), followed by the Polish Ombudsman (RPO).

David R. Johnson

His practice focused primarily on the emerging area of electronic commerce, including counseling on issues relating to privacy, domain names and Internet governance issues, jurisdiction, copyright, taxation, electronic contracting, encryption, defamation, ISP and OSP liability, regulation, and other intellectual property matters.

Dennis Vacco

Vacco brought national attention through a series of prosecutions brought against ISPs, including Dreamscape Online for distributing child pornography.

DragonRealms

When Ziff-Davis did not launch the service, DragonRealms was offered on GEnie and later AOL, Compuserve, and Prodigy.

E. Chandrasekharan Nair

Having entered active politics at a young age, he had joined Students Congress while at Annamalai University, then joined Indian Socialist Party (ISP) and subsequently the Communist Party in 1952.

Epoch Networks

Epoch Networks (www.epochnetworks.com) was, at one time, the largest privately held first tier internet service provider ISP founded by Scott Purcell in 1994.

Freedom of speech in Canada

Bernard Klatt was the owner of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) named Fairview Technology Centre Ltd in Oliver, British Columbia.

GameTree.tv

In April 2011, the GameFree TV service was launched by Free, a French Internet service provider, on its high-end IPTV set-top-box called Freebox Revolution.

Gevalia

Kraft was accused of sending multiple waves of junk advertisement to the ISP's customers, the action brought under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 act.

Hellas Online

Hellas Online (hol) is member of the Intracom Holdings group since 2006, is one of the first Internet providers in Greece to offer public dial-up Internet services, and has since evolved from an ISP, offering primarily internet access services, to a fixed-line telecommunications services provider offering a broad range of retail, business and wholesale services.

HKNet

Previously one of the major players in the broadband market, HKNet began retreating from the consumer market, and in 2005, transferred its residential customers to the larger Netvigator ISP owned by PCCW.

International School of Paris

Since its creation under the name of Pershing Hall in 1964, ISP has grown from a class of 6 students and 5 nationalities to an enrollment today of 700 students, representing over 60 nationalities and 50 languages.

Jumboplay

Based in South East Asia and launch in 2006, it forms partnership with major player in the region, namely TM Net, the largest ISP in Malaysia and Sony Picture Entertainment through Animax and AXN.

Legal status of Internet pornography

The web filter Cleanfeed is used by the largest ISP BT Group to block sites on the Internet Watch Foundation's list, which includes sites that are "criminally obscene" as well as child pornography.

MagicMail

MagicMail is designed to integrate with current ISP billing solutions and has tools to assist with CALEA compliance.

Metaboli

Metaboli has spread its catalogue to majors ISP portals (Orange, SFR, Virgin Media, T-Online), web portals (MSN, AOL) multimedia stores (Fnac, Game, Micromania).

Networx-BG

In May 2007, the company also bought the Romanian ISP Metronet based in Giurgiu, Romania.

Nominet UK

This consisted of members of LINX as full members (the main ISPs in the UK), and their resellers as guest members.

Norwich Pharmacal Order

In Totalise v Motley Fool 2001, 2002 and 2003 one of the first Norwich Pharmacal orders against an online chat room operator, the investment advice company Motley Fool, to identify a user who had posted allegedly libellous comments about the ISP Totalise.

Online service provider

Internet-only service providers like UUNET, The Pipeline, Panix, Netcom, the World, EarthLink, and MindSpring provided no content of their own, concentrating their efforts on making it easy for nontechnical users to install the various software required to "get online" before consumer operating systems came internet-enabled out of the box.

Péter Gervai

He has a diverse interest mainly focused on technical areas, computers, mostly internet access and service providing, security, network design and programming, but he also likes reading and writing literature.

Peter J. Biondi

The requirement is specifically on any ISP or similar entity doing business in New Jersey to require anyone using said entity's facilities for website posting to gather and make available said information.

Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011

During the investigation, law enforcement discovered that the ISP only retained the Media access control address and IP history for 30 days, a limit that foreclosed their opportunity to access investigative material.

Russian Business Network

The RBN operates (or operated) on numerous Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks worldwide and resides (resided) on specific IP addresses, some of which have Spamhaus blocklist reports.

Service-oriented provisioning

Service Oriented Provisioning (abbreviated SOP) is a technology concept developed during the early 2000s to curb the hyper competition developing in the Wireless Internet service provider (WISP) and ISP space.

Transit Agreement

Transit agreements also occur for internet packets between ISPs.

Verio

Verio was founded by Mark D. Johnson, Darin Brannan, and Justin Jaschke in 1996 with a mission of becoming the largest ISP/Hosting company for the SMB/Mid Market business segment through a national infrastructure supported by local technical sales and servicing capabilities from acquired ISP/Hosting companies.

Winston airport shuttle

Winston Airport Shuttles pick up or drop off travelers at any location; such as home, office, school, or hotel on Long Island and Queens and brings them to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), LaGuardia Airport (LGA), Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and Long Island MacArthur Airport (ISP), as well as to all piers in New York City (all boroughs), Bayonne, New Jersey, and Brooklyn.


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