Zetnet
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Zetnet is one of the UK's oldest ISPs and was founded in Lerwick on the remote Shetland Isles by Ghufar Razaq, Graeme Storey, Tim Cole and Paul Martin. According to the Shetland Fishing News, a journal of Shetland's Fishing Industries, the company began trading on October 13th 1994.[1]
[edit] History
In March 1999, Zetnet founded online gaming service Netgames UK, the brainchild of Sandy Sandom and Phil O'Malley[2]. It was originally a wholly owned subsiduary, sharing Zetnet technical staff, but was sold in May 2000 and incorporated as Netgames UK Ltd.[3] The company was run successfully until August 2001 when reports of a press release detailing a fall-out between Netgames UK management and its technical staff were seen.[4]
In 2001, Zetnet took over Charis Internet Services, a Birmingham-based ISP.
In January 2002 Zetnet bought the customers of troubled ISP Cloud-Nine Communications, which had suffered a DDoS attack[5][6]. Cloud Nine were based in Basingstoke, run by CEO Emeric Miszti and Operations Director John Parr.[7]
[edit] Legal case
In 1996, Zetnet was caught in the middle of a legal case between 2 of its local customers, The Shetland Times and The Shetland News, over copyright infringement[8]. The web sites of both customers were hosted by Zetnet.
[edit] References
- Smith, Marvin (unknown), "FISHING THE NET........", Shetland Fishing News
- The Shetland Times V. The Shetland News.
- Richardson, Tim (2002-01-24), "Zetnet rescues Cloud Nine", The Register
- ZoomInfo Cached Page - Netgames UK - Information. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
- PR Newswire Europe Ltd. (2000-12-01). Netgames launches free unmetered internet trial for gamers. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
- NetGames UK Tech Staff Gone (2001-08-24). Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
- Wearden, Graeme (2002-01-24), "Cloud Nine sells up after DoS attack", ZDNet
- Richardson, Tim (2002-01-22), "Cloud Nine blown away, blames hack attack", The Register
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