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10 unusual facts about Internet service provider


Australian NetGuide

Australian NetGuide was originally established in Australia by OzEmail as that Internet service provider's member publication.

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.

DansGuardian

DansGuardian is used by schools, businesses, value-added Internet service providers, and others.

Garry Betty

Charles Garrett "Garry" Betty (4 March 1957 – 2 January 2007) was President and CEO of EarthLink, a large American Internet service provider, from 1996 until his death.

Internet company

Internet service provider, a company whose main activity is providing Internet access to customers

J. D. Frazer

It is about a group of characters who work for a fictional Internet service provider, and the comic's readership consists mainly of programmers, self-styled geeks, and other technophiles.

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.

Pink contract

A pink contract is an agreement between an email spammer and the spammer's Internet service provider.

Transit Agreement

Transit agreements also occur for internet packets between ISPs.

Windows Messenger service

Many Internet service providers currently block access to these NetBIOS ports over the Internet, helping to prevent spamming even for older unfirewalled clients.


.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.

Agustín Rossi

He also courted controversy with his rhetoric, notably in August 2010 when he described lawmakers who presented a bill that sought reverse a government decision to revoke an expired license for the Fibertel internet service provider, as "lawyers" for the Clarín Group (Fibertel's parent company); there have been ongoing controversies between Clarín and Kirchnerism since 2008 over a number of issues.

CamGSM

CamGSM, majority owned by businessman Kith Meng, operates Cambodia’s second largest mobile telecommunications network via its Mobitel and Cellcard subsidiaries, delivering local and international telecommunications services, as well as being an internet service provider.

Chief gaming officer

The CGO negotiates and executes the appropriate agreements for web hosting and networking services for game delivery to the community, resolving issues with local internet service providers, and making sure that appropriate online payment agreements and systems are in place in each country.

CloseCall America

CloseCall America, also called CloseCall, was a telephone, wireless and Internet service provider formed in 1999, with operations headquartered in Stevensville, Maryland.

Dart v. Craigslist, Inc.

2d 961 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 20, 2009), is a decision by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in which the court held that Craigslist, as an Internet service provider, was immune from wrongs committed by their users under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA).

Dennis Vacco

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

Désirée Miloshevic

Miloshevic studied English Literature at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology before starting her internet career at the newly formed British service provider Demon Internet in 1993.

DNS.com

DNS.com also provides transparent authoritative DNS services through its reseller distribution channel to Internet service providers such as Domain name registrars and web hosting companies.

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.

Excon Worldwide, Inc.

Excon Online is an internet company which specializes in internet advertising, programming, web development, and is an internet service provider.

February 2010 Australian cyberattacks

The attack began as a protest responding to a plan by Australian Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy that would require internet service providers to block Australian users from accessing illegal and what the government deemed as "unwanted" content.

General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales

The installation requires a device from the common, power, a line and Internet ADSL .

Gisle Hannemyr

In 1991, he was co-founder of the first commercial internet service provider in Norway, Oslonett, which later, being acquired by Schibsted, became Schibsted Nett (SN), and Scandinavia Online (Sol).

Google Toolbar

A number of Internet service providers have implemented DNS hijacking with the purpose of redirecting users to advertisements whenever they mistype a URL in a browser.

Holger Voss

Voss also claimed that Internet service provider T-Online saved his dynamic IP address, which was turned over to law enforcement agencies without a judge's order, for several months in disagreement with German laws (which only allow the saving of IP addresses for as long as is necessary for billing), and initiated legal action in a separate case which he won January 25, 2006.

MagicMail

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

Radwin

Its solutions are used by telecoms carriers, city and town councils, remote communities, ISPs, private networks.

Scott Swedorski

Scott Swedorski is the founder of Tucows (The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software), a large Internet domain name reseller, and Internet service provider.