Giganews

Giganews, Inc is a Usenet/newsgroup service provider. Founded in 1994, Giganews service is available to individual users through a subscription model and as an outsourced service to internet service providers. Well-known ISPs that have outsourced Usenet access to Giganews include RCN Corporation,^[1] BT, WOW! (Wide Open West), and Kingston Communications.

Giganews, Inc.

Company type	Private
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1994 in Austin, Texas
Headquarters	Austin, Texas
Products	Usenet
Website	giganews.com

In 2008 Giganews acquired Supernews.^[2]

In 2010, Giganews began offering users VPN and cloud storage access ("VyprVPN" and "Dump Truck", respectively) via its parent company, Golden Frog.^[3][4]

Giganews currently offers service to over 10 million broadband users in 180 countries.

Giganews traffic is peered at Equinix^[5] in Ashburn in Loudoun County, Virginia, AMS-IX^[6] and NL-IX^[7] in The Netherlands, DE-CIX^[8] in Frankfurt, Germany, and LINX^[9][10] in London, United Kingdom. In late 2008, Giganews' bandwidth capacity at AMS-IX increased from 40 Gbit/s to 80 Gbit/s.^[11]

Giganews offers more than three years of article retention in binary groups and eight years in text groups.^[12] This results in more than nine petabytes (9000 terabytes) of storage.^[13]