Verio - Some of The ISPs Purchased By Verio

Some of The ISPs Purchased By Verio

Verio was initially built on a business model known as a "rollup", composed entirely of smaller companies operating under the Verio brand-name. By the year 2000, Verio had purchased almost fifty small ISPs, most in the U.S. but some in Europe, ranging in price from under a million dollars (USD) to over 100 million dollars per ISP. These companies were often mature and well-known brand names in their local markets, more well known than Verio, and often continued to operate with a great deal of local autonomy even after purchase by Verio. Some of the ISPs purchased by Verio were leading pioneers in the ISP industry (Digital Nation), representing the first wave of commercial ISP access in local markets around the US and Europe. Some of these companies included:

• Access One (accessone.com) Western Washington
• AimNet (aimnet.com) Santa Clara, California
• ATMNet (atmnet.net) San Diego, California
• Best Internet Communications, Mountain View, California
• Branch Net (branch.net, branch.com) Ann Arbor, Michigan
• CCNet (ccnet.com) Walnut Creek, California
• ClarkNet (clark.net, clarknet.net), Columbia, Maryland
• Communique (cmq.net) Gulf South
• Compute Intensive, Inc.
• CompuTech (Spokane)
• Computing Engineers, Inc. (dba WorldWide Access) (wwa.com, wwa.net), Chicago, Illinois
• Digital Nation (Owner - Bruce Waldack)(dn.net) Alexandria, Virginia
• Florida Internet (flinet.com) South Florida
• Global Enterprise Services (ges.net, ges.com, jvnc.net) New Jersey
• Global Internet Network Services (globalinternet.com), formerly MidNet (mid.net) Lincoln, Nebraska
• Hiway Technologies (hiway.com/.net, hway.com/.net, rapidsite.com/.net) Boca Raton, Florida
• Internet Engineering Associates, Inc.
• Internet Now, Inc. (inetnow.net) Atlanta, Georgia
• Internet Servers, Inc. (iserver.net, iserver.com, secure.net) Orem, Utah
• Long Island Internet (li.net) Long Island, New York
• MagicNet (magicnet.net) Orlando, Florida
• Monumental Network Services, (monumental.com/.net, mns.com/.net, mnsinc.com/.net) Chantilly, Virginia
• National Knowledge Network (NKN) (nkn.net, nkn.com, nkn.edu) Dallas, Texas
• Network Intensive (ni.net, compute.com) Irvine, California
• New York Net (new-york.net) New York City
• Northwest Network Services (NorthWestNet) (nwnet.net) Bellevue/Seattle, Washington
• NS Net (ns.net) Sacramento, California
• OnRamp (onramp.net) Dallas, Texas
• Pacific Rim (pacificrim.com, pacificrim.net) Bellingham, Washington
• PacketWorks (packet.net) Tampa Bay, Florida
• Pioneer Global (pioneerglobal.com, pn.net, wing.net) New England
• PrepNet (prep.net, prepnet.net, prepnet.com) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• QualNet/IAGNet (qual.net, qualnet.net, iagnet.net, cic.net, cyberdrive.net, harborcom.com) Cleveland, Ohio
• RAINet (rain.net, rain.com) Oregon
• RustNet (rust.net) Michigan
• ServiceTech (servtech.com) New York City
• SesquiNet (sesqui.net) Houston, Texas
• SigNet (sig.net) Austin, Texas
• SmartConnect (smartconnect.net) McLean, Virginia
• Spacelab (spacelab.net, mxol.com) New York City
• Starnet (starnet.net) St. Louis, Missouri
• Structured (structured.net, sns-access.com) Oregon
• Surf Networks (surfnetwork.net, p3.net, dynanet.net) Philadelphia
• Tab Net (tab.net, tabnet.net, criticalpath.net, cp.net) Napa Valley, California
• TerraNet (terra.net, terranet.net, terranet.com) New England
• Web Communications (webcom.com) Santa Cruz, California
• West Coast Online (wco.com) Rohnert Park, California
• WWW-Service, Regensburg (Germany)