Latest Happenings from the Usenet Newsgroups World

Jul
08

New and Improved Free Trial

We’ve decided to make some changes to our free trial process. Our old free trial was for 14 days and 1 GB of usage. That system worked great, as it gave our users plenty of time to decide if our service was right for them, but the 1 GB usage limit caused a lot of customers to leave their free trial...

Jul
02

Website Maintenance Tonight (UPDATED)

NewsgroupDirect.com will be unavailable tonight from 9 PM EST until 11 PM EST. We are going to be migrating the website to new servers and upgrading database configurations. The usenet servers will not be affected by this downtime and will be available normally. The NGD helpdesk will also still be available. Contact...

Jun
20

Announcing Our Partnership with StorageNinja

We are extremely excited to be able to offer a great new benefit to our users. NewsgroupDirect has partnered with StorageNinja, the online storage and backup service, to provide 30 GB of online storage for our new Unlimited account users. 30 GB of online storage and backup provides our users a secure,...

May
18

Newsgroup Retention Now at 600 Days!

We’re pleased to announce that our binary retention is now at 600 days! Our retention has been growing daily for months, and we?re continuing to set new records daily. Binary Retention Details: 600 Days available through message-id Over 300 Days available through header downloads Varies by Newsgroup Text...

Feb
15

50 Connections Now Available!

We’re excited to announce that we are now able to offer our customers 50 concurrent connections. NewsgroupDirect continues to invest in our infrastructure as a part of our commitment to having the best service in the industry. How Will This Affect You? We are providing these upgrades to our customers...

Jan
18

NewsgroupDirect Haiti Relief Efforts

In response to the tragedy in Haiti NewsgroupDirect will donate all of today’s (Monday 1/18) sales to the American Red Cross. If you have already been planning to make a purchase at NewsgroupDirect then today would be a good day to do that, so that we can maximize the relief that we are able to...

Jan
07

Unison 2.0 Now Available – Mac users

The new version of Unison, our newsreader of choice for Mac users, is here!!! Unison 2.0 offers now a native support for NZB searching within the application (via binsearch.info and others). It also automatically takes care of finding missing parts, PAR recovery, and RAR unpacking. Others Unison’s...

Jan
01

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! We at NewsgroupDirect would like to thank all of our customers for a wonderful 2009. We look forward to an even better 2010. Thank you to all. May 2010 be prosperous for you and your loved ones.

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