Easynet
Easynet is a managed service provider and delivers integrated networks, hosting and unified communications services to organisations globally.
The company is headquartered in United Kingdom, and has offices throughout Europe, Asia Pacific, and the US.
History
Founded in 1994, by David Rowe and Keith Teare, Easynet was owned by British Sky Broadcasting, from 2006 to 2010. In 2010, Easynet announced its sale from BSkyB (Sky) to Lloyds Development Capital (LDC), the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group.[1]
In October 2015, Easynet was acquired by Interoute, the owner-operator of one of Europe's largest networks and a global cloud services platform.[2]
Dynablock
Dynablock is a name which was used by Easynet from 2001 to 2003 for their Dialup Users List DNSBL of Internet addresses that appeared to be assigned dynamically, i.e. to dialup and residential broadband users.
Updates of Dynablock stopped December 2003 but it became the basis for NJABL and SORBS own dynamic IP lists. The dynamic list parts of NJABL and SORBS have been developed independently since then, with NJABL using the 'dynablock' name for their list. In early 2007, NJABL passed their data along to The Spamhaus Project,[3] for using in their PBL [4] service.
References
- ↑ Jackson, Mark. "UK ISP Easynet Global and BSkyB Agree Sale to Lloyds Development Capital − ISPreview UK News". www.ispreview.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
- ↑ "Interoute buys Easynet for £402 million". Business Cloud News. 2015-09-08. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
- ↑ http://www.njabl.org/dynablock.html
- ↑ http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl