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Occasionally I get email requests for a reference to a good site that provides news access for a fee. I have listed several commercial servers on this page, and I hope that I can add more later. I plan to setup a special search for the various pay sites that will allow us to index them on a daily basis just like I do for all the free sites.
| Active file transfer | New articles per sec |
| Last Active Read | Number of servers |
| 2008-05-09 | 10 |
| 2008-05-08 | 1 |
In the table below, if there is not information in a field, it doesn't mean anything specific. Some services I just haven't had time to look at yet, others don't give me enough access without joining to see what they really have to offer. If I don't make a comment it usually means that I had no real opinion about the service, they were just "average".
Indexed Servers | ||||
| URL | Their description of themselves | Services Provided | Monthly Fee | |
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| NewsHosting.com |
67,000 newsgroups 5TeraByte news spool 20 day retention for binaries 90 day retention for the rest multiple DS3 connections to the internet |
Separate Spool and Reader machines Alternate server names to help choose fastest route 8GB/month download limit |
As low as $5 per month For Text Only |
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They have a very impressive appearing configuration. Also,
with the separate names based on the DS3 connection, users can
use traceroute (or connect using all 3), to get the best
possible connections. |
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| Giganews.com |
96,000+ Newsgroups 400TB of Storage 50 Days Binary Retention 620+ Days Text Retention Multi Gigabit Backbone Servers in the US & Europe |
text group server spam filtering |
2GB/Mo $7.99 25GB/Mo $12.99 Unlimited $24.99 | |
Giganews Usenet provides one of the most complete newsfeeds available with very few missing posts. They also provide spam filtering and an unlimited download package. Great as your primary provider or just to download fills. |
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| Usenet-Access.com |
1,800 MHz of processing power! 2,000 MB of RAM! 360 Gig Spool drive on a full array! Some of the longest retention times available! Over 80,000 newsgroups Quad T-3 Backbone Capable of handling THOUSANDS of simultaneous connections, without breaking a sweat! |
3 Anonymous Servers | $6 every 30 days by credit card | |
They operate their own servers. They have a ton of available bandwidth using their Quad T-3 backbone. They do not log who posted articles to their servers. And, finally, my personal connection speed to them is excellent. |
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| thenewsgroups.com |
This is our new high speed, super retention, maximum
completion server. This server is guaranteed to bury your
DSL/Broadband connection. Users consistently reach 1.5mbps on
DSL lines. Average completion on most mp3 groups is 98% or
higher.
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5 specialized servers 1 carries all the adult groups 1 carries all the binary groups 500MB/day download limit |
$8.95 per month | |
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| Megabitz |
27,000+ Newsgroups - No artificial bloat 70TeraByte redundant news spool 30 day retention for binaries 60 day retention for text Multi-gigabit Internet connectivity |
NSB freindly! Latest stats on their web page |
$13.95/month for 5 connections $23.95/month for 15 connections |
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Unlike most of the other usenet providers out there, Megabitz does not keep all of the junk groups. Their active list only contains 27,000 active groups. This will help speed up your download of the active list. In addition, the other 80,000 groups are usually only posted to by spammers anyway, so you won't waste your time looking for content that doesn't exist. |
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| MegaNetNews |
Meganetnews.com is a Professional Usenet News Service that offers
exclusive features you will not find anywhere else!! Because
Usenet News is our ONLY business, we are DEDICATED to providing
one of the most POWERFUL and FEATURE PACKED Usenet sites on the
internet. |
3 Uncensored Servers | $5.95 and up |
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I am putting MegaNetNews back up in the top part of my listing. They have contacted me and re-created my login information. During the move to their new servers they seem to have lost my information. I still say caveat emptor, but things are looking
up |
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The table below contains links to sites that archive pictures, sounds and video from the Usenet News Groups. They then sell access to their archives. If you just want the binaries, and don't want to mess with a News Reader (or missing parts, etc), these are a good alternative.
Binary Archives | |||
| URL | Their description of themselves | Services Provided | Monthly Fee |
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| Usenet Pictures |
free non-adult images $5.00/month adult |
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| This is my site for Usenet pictures and other binary files. Maybe not a very accurate name for describing it, but you get the idea. I archive images, videos, sound files (no MP3 currently), executables, ROM images for MAME, etc. I also keep multipart RAR and ZIP files, and other support files, such as PAR2 files for repairing your multi-part downloads. Most PAR2 files are available in the non-adult area because you have to download the other normal parts from somewhere else for them to be useful. | |||
| Gigantic Usenet Binaries Archive | $10.00 | ||
| As far as I can tell, this site is strictly devoted to pictures and other binaries which pass around the internet. It even provides a page containing thumbnails of some of the recent images in each of the "groups". As far as news articles though, I don't think there is anything to read. | |||
| Thumbnail-Pictures | Thumbnail picture galleries for viewing and downloading; all from usenet newsgroups. | ||
| Newshog | Haven't looked at it yet. | ||
The sites listed below provide usenet news scanning services. These web sites allow people to create a list of search terms for news messages that they are interested in. They then send an email to the user listing the messages which they located for them.
Usenet News Scanners | |||
| URL | Their description of themselves | Services Provided | Monthly Fee |
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| Usenet News Flash | Usenet News Flash allows you to assign keywords on whatever you like, and scans all of the Usenet daily downloads and text messages, FTP audio/video and Web audio and video and sends you a report over email when it finds items that match your keywords thus freeing up your time searching. (more features also) | Search Usenet downloads text messages FTP audio/video Web audio/video and get email alerts on any kinds of media daily. | $4.95/month 3-day trial $35.00/year |
The sites listed below provide web based news reading services. These web sites allow people to read news even if they are using an set top box which does not allow the use of standard news reader software (such as WebTV).
Web Based News Readers | |||
| URL | Their description of themselves | Services Provided | Monthly Fee |
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| McCane Consulting | FREE Web-based Newsgroups (Text Only) | Free (for now) | |
| I am currently in the process of developing this web-based news reader. In order to help me debug/improve it more quickly, I have left it free/open to the public. It does not currently support decoding/displaying binary attachments in messages. I will probably add this feature in the near future and make it available to paid subscribers. | |||
| Randori Communications | FREE Web-based Newsgroups (Text Only): comp.*,gov.*,gnu.*,misc.*,news.*,rec.*,sci.*,soc.* | NNTP services to Individuals/ISPs subscription web-based newsreader for ALL newsgroups |
Free |
If you work for any of the sites listed below in the "Unindexed Servers" list and would like to get your site indexed, please contact me directly and you and I can set it up.
Unindexed NNTP Servers | |||
| URL | Their description of themselves | Services Provided | Monthly Fee |
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| NewsKing |
120,000 Groups including all binary newsgroups. No filtering No speed cap |
Anonymous posting & reading Unlimited download no logging |
$15.95 unlimited $7.95 economic |
| I am currently working with them to get setup so that I can index their server. After that I can give a little more information. | |||
| Airnews | USENET for individuals, ISPs and businesses. Retention is over ten days for binaries, over 140 days for text. No limit on downloading. Higher level accounts can be used from multiple locations at once. Clarinet groups service is included with all accounts. Accounts come with seven day refund offer. |
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$9.95 and up with binaries $4.95 text only |
| I was recently contacted by someone from Airnews who told me they have been going through a bunch of upgrades and improvements. They also asked about indexing, so I will try to get them added RSN. | |||
| Alibis.com | Over 90,000 totally uncensored Usenet newsgroups. AOL, MSN and CIS compatible. Compatible with all ISP's. MP3, alt.binaries (pictures, jpg's, movie files), shareware, politics, music, MAC and PC software program newsgroups on our state of the art Usenet newsgroup servers. | 500MB/server/day on their 5 general servers 7 "specialty" servers |
$18.95 per Month |
 This company seems a little too pricey for my tastes. I have joined their affiliate program, but I have put them down here because I don't have a free account and cannot index their servers to let people know how well they stack up. |
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| newsgroup-binaries.com | Newsgroup-Binaries.com provides the fastest, most reliable USENET access to thousands of *binaries* newsgroups; cd.image, iso, dvd, mp3, exe, mpg, avi, yEnc to name a few. Our retention and completion rates are more than competitive. We also protect your privacy by not logging uploads or downloads to the newsgroups. |
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$9.95 per Month |
| This company looks pretty good to me. I have excellent ping time to their servers. They have a single server, which is usually an indication of the better services. And I think that 8 simultaneous connections to the servers, which should allow excellent download speeds, is the highest I have seen on any commercial server. | |||
| 100 Proof News | We provide access to a full 3,500+ Binary Newsgroups, over 90,000 Newsgroups in all, and custom News Rover software, designed just for our users. |
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$8.95 per Month |
| East Bay Technologies | This company sells a couple of news reader programs, and they are giving away a free account to anyone that asks for ene. |
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Free |
| Tera News | Service appears to be gone... for now I would recommend that you avoid them until I hear otherwise. | ||
| USENETSERVER | We're located in Atlanta, GA with direct peering to both Mae-East and West | $6.95 AutoBill | |
| This company provides a good service at a reasonable price. They have over 50000 groups, and great performance downloading the active file and articles. I also have a deal with them to pay me a commission for any new customers I pass to them using the link above. | |||
| Altopia Corporation | Multiple T3 and T1 lines to various backbones (UUNET, Sprint, C&W, AGIS, Netcom, PSI) plus a connection to the Seattle Internet Exchange with peering to AboveNet and Epoch, among others. Orientation towards freedom and privacy, with care given to quality and anti-censorship. | Partial feed (no binaries) | $6.00 and up based on transfer speed |
| Full feed | $12.00 and up based on transfer speed |
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I emailed with someone at Altopia and now feel much better about
how they run their service. A customer chooses how much they
want to pay for service based on the speed that they download
articles. The server then throttles their account back whenever
it is going too fast. Also,
free agent can be used, but
you need to manually select the articles that you want to read.
In other words, you should not setup your machine to pull down an
entire group every night. If you send any advertisments and someone complains you will be charged $10/complaint and lose your account, but they said that you will not get bumped for frivilous complaints. |
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| Barditch News Server | This is a high quality, members only, alternate news service that is compatible with all popular news readers and is available from anywhere on the Internet. ... This server is also one of the most spam-free servers available today and has about 98% removed. | "SPAM Free" news groups | $15.00 |
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Spam-Free basically means censored (not that I really mind avoiding
all those junk messages). The big difference is that they are
blocking messages because they are advertisements, not because of
the the legality/illegality or offensiveness of their content. This server will also charge you $25.00 for any "commercially motivated" posting and terminate your account immediately. |
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| Easy Usenet | Web-based news reader | $9.95 | |
| Newscene | Newscene is a premium Usenet news service with over 46,000 newgroups. Newscene offers complete anonymity with its news services. | Partial Feed no binaries | $6.00 |
| Full Feed | $12.00 | ||
| Only 1 IP connection per user account at a time. No more than 4 simultaneous connections per user at a time. They run Spam filters on postings. | |||
| News Service | This newsserver is an uncensored server with over 27.500 newsgroups and millions of articles present. | $10.00 | |
| Newsfeeds.Com | 70,000+ controversial uncensored usenet news groups accessible from anywhere in the world! |
Filtered server Uncensored Binary only |
$9.95 and up |
| This company has various servers available for you to choose from. Looks like a pretty good mix of services. | |||
| NewsGuy News Service | Newsreader or Web interface | $9.95 and up |
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| NuthinButNews | Haven't looked at it yet. | ||
| Randori Communications | Haven't looked at it yet. | ||
| VIP-News | Haven't looked at it yet. | ||
| Uncensored News | Haven't looked at it yet. | ||
| CRNet | Haven't looked at it yet. | ||
The sites listed below sell News services directly to ISPs. If you are an ISP and are looking for a way to provide news services to your customers, look here.
NNTP Resellers for ISPs | |||
| URL | Their description of themselves | Services Provided | Monthly Fee |
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| NNTP Server | We are a provider of premium Usenet news and all related services. It doesn't make good business sense for a small ISP to attempt to run their own news server. |
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It varies depending on your needs. |
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