New Crypto Payments Available

At NGD we’re always looking for way to improve user experience, and we just launched a good one for you.

We just released our own BTCPay server. What does that mean for you?

  • Faster payments! Less waiting around on payment confirmations
  • Less fees! No more paying expensive crypto payment fees.

This is a big improvement for our crypto customers. Now you can maximize your privacy with crypto payments, but faster and without the expensive fees.

Black Friday Deals Are Live!

We’re excited to announce our Black Friday deals for 2023. We’ve worked hard to come up with some new and exciting plans that are totally unique to NewsgroupDirect!

NGD Grand Slam

This is a brand new plan that combines the power of 4 usenet backbones! Get NGD + Supernews + ViperNews + Usenet.Farm! There’s no more powerful usenet plan available anywhere.

NGD Triple Play

Our Triple Play plan is a usenet game changer. NGD + Supernews + ViperNews together in a single plan! Save money over paying separately for other providers.

NGD Double Play

Our Double Play plan gives you two usenet providers for the price of one! NGD + Supernews. Save money over paying separately for other providers.

NGD Unlimited Usenet

Save big on our traditional Unlimited Usenet plan! Get 15 months of Unlimited for $40. Renews at $40 yearly.

NewsgroupDirect X Usenet.Farm

Supernews and NewsgroupDirect

We’re excited to announce a partnership with the great folks at Usenet.Farm. Starting today, NewsgroupDirect customers will be able to upgrade to plans that offer USENET service at NewsgroupDirect, Supernews, and Usenet.Farm. That’s right… you’ll get access to THREE different USENET backbones with your NGD account.

You can upgrade to our new Triple Play plan for $11/month. It includes everything in our standard NGD Unlimited plan plus access to the Supernews and Usenet.Farm servers. 

NewsgroupDirect customers will get 1500 GB of data to use at Usenet.Farm every month.

Questions?

If you have any questions about Usenet.Farm or want to upgrade, feel free to reach out to our support team at [email protected] and we’ll get back to you in no time.

NewsgroupDirect X Supernews

Supernews and NewsgroupDirect

It’s a big day here at NGD HQ! We’re excited to announce a partnership with the great folks at Supernews. Starting today, NewsgroupDirect customers will be able to upgrade to plans that offer USENET service at BOTH NewsgroupDirect and Supernews. That’s right… you’ll get access to TWO different USENET backbones with your NGD account.

You can upgrade to our new Super Unlimited plan for $7/month. It includes everything in our standard NGD Unlimited plan plus access to the Supernews servers. We’ll be releasing additional plans with Supernews access in the near future, so stay tuned for that.

About Supernews

Supernews has been around since 2004 (just like us!) and is known for their quality service, excellent retention, and great speeds.

Questions?

If you have any questions about Supernews or want to upgrade, feel free to reach out to our support team at [email protected] and we’ll get back to you in no time.

Black Friday Deals for 2020

Black Friday Usenet Deals

Our Black Friday deals will go live at 8AM ET on November 27, 2020. Here’s what we have in store for you this year:

Special bonus! If you buy an unlimited account and pay with Bitpay then we’ll add an additional 50% of your term for free. So the 10 month payment would get you an additional 5 months. The extension will be added manually. 

As always, our we are price matching other provider usenet deals.

Happy Holidays from NGD!

State of the USENET Feed in 2020

State of the USENET Feed in 2020

If you’re a USENET user then there’s a good chance that you love data too. The growth of the USENET feed over the last decade is very interesting and shows all sorts of changes in user behavior, the quality of our internet connections, and much more.

The approximate volume of USENET data generated in 2008 was 4.7 TB per day, which was a staggering amount at the time. The USENET feed has grown around 25% yearly since 2008 and now sits at around 120 TB per day, a 5X increase. Another way to look at this… 2020 alone accounts for nearly 30% of the total USENET data since 2008, and we’re not half-way through the year.

Usenet Feed Size in 2020

Just like most things digital, USENET newsgroups have grown substantially and quickly. What once took a year to achieve is now a bi-weekly milestone. Since 2008, online users have increased by more than 1,157 times with an estimated 4.79 billion people spending an average of 6.5 hours online every day.

Older Data is Becoming Less Important

One potential explanation for the growth of the USENET feed is reposting. Older articles are increasingly being reposted, which pushes more of the total USENET feed into the more recent days.

It’s estimated that only 10% of articles posted are ever actually read and more than 50% of the articles read are less than 120 days old and a whopping 85% of the read articles are less than 1500 days old. Combine that with reposting and the growth of the USENET feed makes more sense. Older articles are just not pulled as often.

Retention is a Poor Metric

Since older articles no longer carry the weight that they used to it doesn’t make sense to hold up binary retention as the most important metric in Usenet anymore. The vast majority of read articles are from within the last 12 months or so, and that’s where our focus is and where we have put our primary resources into technology to deliver those articles as fast as possible. NGD’s primary goal is to make sure that our users have the fastest access to the articles they need.  We show less than 1.5% of all requested articles are unavailable, and those are typically par2 files.  This number includes all message failures including articles outside our retention as well as articles that have been deleted or removed.

What’s Next?

Due to a number of factors, especially those that have been created through our worldwide pandemic, it’s too soon to say what the daily volume total could be for 2021. As of now though, the forecast for it should only see a positive increase in these numbers.

Free Unlimited Access for Block Customers During COVID-19

COVID-19 Free Usenet Access

Update: This program has ended. Thanks for your participation!

We’re providing our valued block customers with unlimited usenet access during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Who is This For?

Our free access is available for all NGD block customers (current customers and new customers). Unlimited customers should continue to use the existing servers.

How Long Will This Last?

We’re not sure. We’re planning on at least 2 months from today (April 17). We’ll re-evaluate then.

How to Access Free Usenet

The only thing you’ll have to change in your configuration is your NNTP address. You’ll need to connect to covid.newsgroupdirect.com with your existing username and password. Everything else will stay the same.

Contact [email protected] if you run into any issues.