History
In 1992 ICONZ was founded as a small business by Chris Thorpe and Jon Clarke in Clarke's garage. By 1994 ICONZ had grown and was one of only two companies providing Internet solutions to the Auckland and far north regions of New Zealand, with 18 dial-up lines and a 48K MDDS circuit.
In 1995, ICONZ hosted auckland.nz.undernet.org IRC node setup which was significant step forward for New Zealand global communications. The Undernet is now one of the largest Internet Relay Chat (IRC) networks.
ICONZ was acquired by AsiaOnLine in 1999 and moved from being a New Zealand based ISP to a Pacific based ISP. The branding was changed to AsiaOnline, and it was given a new look. It joined a multinational company scattered around the Pacific Rim, with offices in California, Hong Kong, The Philippines, China, South Korea, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. AsiaOnline went into liquidation in November 2001, and the New Zealand portion was sold to the Spencer family who reinstated the ICONZ branding.
Under the leadership of Michael Spencer, the operations acquired from AsiaOnline were merged with his existing ISP business, VISP and E3. The company centralised operations to ICONZ House in Airedale Street, Auckland. In 2003, ICONZ acquired New Plymouth-based WebFarm and Freeparking, leading shared hosting providers in the New Zealand market. These business units continue to operate from New Plymouth. In 2005, ICONZ acquired 2day.com, a specialist Windows hosting company based in Auckland.
In 2006, the Spencer Family made a significant investment in the Pan-Asian hoster Webvisions, headquartered in Singapore. In 2009 the operations of Webvisions and ICONZ began to merge, and in October 2012 the company name ICONZ changed to ICONZ-Webvisions Limited.
Headquartered in Singapore, ICONZ-Webvisions is the only Asia-centered Cloud and managed hosting provider serving Asia, Australasia and the global market. iWV help businesses take advantage of the power of the Internet, seamlessly and effortlessly, using Cloud technologies.
ICONZ-Webvisions offers a unique combination of private and public cloud computing services to mid-sized enterprises, leveraging the largest pan-Asian footprint of managed hosting facilities. In addition to Cloud hosting, ICONZ-Webvisions offers co-location and connectivity services in New Zealand, Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia and Singapore.
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