Panix (ISP)

Panix Public Access Networks Corporation
Created by Alexis Rosen & Jim Baumbach
Services
  • Community/Social Networking
  • ISP
Founded in 1989
Location New York City, New York, USA

Panix is the third-oldest ISP in the world after NetCom and the World. Originally running on A/UX on an Apple Macintosh IIfx, Panix has gone through a number of transitions as the Internet has grown. It maintains a vibrant community of shell users and posters to its private panix.* USENET newsgroups. Panix also hosts regular get-togethers for fellow Panixistas in Central Park.

Panix was started as a commercial venture to fill the void created after New York City's primary USENET connected public access system (which was donation supported), The Big Electric Cat, ceased operations.

Panix is a vocal supporter of free speech and uncensored internet access [1]

Network security incidents

Panix was one of the first sites to identify the 1996 SYN flood Denial of service[2] [3].

In 2005, the "panix.com" domain name was hijacked over a (US) long holiday weekend. [4] [5]

References

  1. ^ Declaration of Alexis Rosen in ALA v. Pataki [1]
  2. ^ PANIX ATTACK, Time Magazine [2]
  3. ^ Charalampos Patrikakis, Michalis Masikos, and Olga Zouraraki, Distributed Denial of Service Attacks [3]
  4. ^ Jennifer LeClaire, ICANN Scrutinized in Wake of Panix Attack, E-Commerce Times [4]
  5. ^ Steven Cherry, Panix Attack: How New York City's oldest Internet service provider was hijacked and rescued IEEE Spectrum, Feb 2005 [5].

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