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HavenCo
Type
Founded 2000
Headquarters Sealand
Key people Michael Bates, Ryan Donald Lackey
Industry Computer industry
Services Web hosting service
Website HavenCo.com

HavenCo Limited is a data hosting services company founded in 2000 which operates from Sealand, an unrecognised self-declared 'sovereign principality' that occupies a man-made former World War II defensive facility originally known as Roughs Tower located approximately six miles from the coast of Suffolk, southeast England. The Principality of Sealand is a Micronation located on HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea Ryan Donald Lackey (born March 17, 1979) is an Entrepreneur and Computer security professional For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" Computer industry is a collective term used to describe the whole range of businesses involved in developing Computer software, designing Computer hardware and A service is the non-material equivalent of a good. A service provision is an economic activity that does not result in Ownership, and this is what differentiates A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The Principality of Sealand is a Micronation located on HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including HM Fort Roughs was one of several World War II installations that were designed by Guy Maunsell and known collectively as His Majesty's Forts or as Suffolk (ˈsʌfək is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

On August 22, 2000, Michael Bates of Leigh-on-sea, Essex (who is also known as Prince Michael of Sealand), bought a dormant British company which was renamed HavenCo Limited. Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Essex is a county in the East of England. The County town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common It was given the registration number of 04056934 by Companies House, an executive agency of the UK Department of Trade and Industry. Companies House is an Executive Agency of the United Kingdom Government in the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. The registered office of HavenCo Limited was recorded at 11 Kintyre House, Cold Harbour, London, E14 9NL England. The directors were listed as Michael Roy Bates, a citizen of the United Kingdom, who was named Chief Operating Officer, and Ryan Donald Lackey, a US citizen. Ryan Donald Lackey (born March 17, 1979) is an Entrepreneur and Computer security professional Other founders included Sean and Jo Hastings and Avi Freedman, and Sameer Parekh was an advisor to the company. Sameer Parekh is best known for being the founder of C2Net Software Inc The company later relocated its registration to Cyprus. Cyprus (Κύπρος transliterated: Kýpros,; Kıbrıs officially the Republic of Cyprus (Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία Kypriakī́ Dīmokratía

HavenCo initially received broad coverage in the international media, appearing on the cover of Wired Magazine, in over 200 press articles, and in several television reports. Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993 In these reports, HavenCo claimed to have established a secure colocation facility on Sealand, and that it had commenced operations as a data haven. For the business term see Colocation (business. For collocation methods for the solution of differential equations see Collocation method. A data haven is a Computer or a network that holds Data protected from government action by both technical means ( Encryption) and location in Detractors claim that these reports gave the impression that HavenCo was registered on Sealand itself, and that the company would issue domain names under the authority of that entity, when in fact it had no entitlement to do so.

The company announced that it had become operational in December 2000 and that its Acceptable Use Policy prohibited child pornography, spamming, and malicious hacking - but that all other content was acceptable. An acceptable use policy ( AUP; also sometimes acceptable usage policy) is a set of rules applied by network and website owners Child pornography refers to material depicting Children being in a state of undress engaged in erotic poses or sexual activity Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages It claimed that it had no restrictions on copyright or intellectual property for data hosted on its servers, arguing that as Sealand was not a member of the World Trade Organization or WIPO, international intellectual property law did not apply. Copyright is a legal concept enacted by Governments, giving the creator of an original work of authorship Exclusive rights to control its distribution usually for Intellectual property ( IP) is a legal field that refers to creations of the mind such as musical literary and artistic works inventions and symbols names A server is a Computer dedicated to providing one or more services over a computer network typically through a request-response routine The World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO) is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations. Other services available from HavenCo at the time included IT consulting, systems administration, offshore software development, and electronic mail services. Electronic mail, often abbreviated to e-mail, email, or originally eMail, is a Store-and-forward method of writing sending receiving Later policies specified, "No pornography that would be considered illegal within the EU," and "No infringement of copyright. "[1]

Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, HavenCo announced that the operation would block initiatives "contrary to international custom and practice". HavenCo claimed that it had experienced few difficulties with any foreign government or organization, although according to detractors, the British government "reacted quietly" by enforcing British laws concerning unlicensed data transmissions to and from Sealand, although it is unclear what is meant by this, and no evidence has been produced in support of these claims.

Ryan Lackey left HavenCo under acrimonious circumstances in 2002, citing disagreements with the Bates family over management of the company. Ryan Donald Lackey (born March 17, 1979) is an Entrepreneur and Computer security professional HavenCo itself is still in operation, but the extent of its current business is unknown. Lackey claims that HavenCo owes him $220,000 of un-reimbursed expenses that went towards, among other things, paying other people's salaries.

HavenCo resembles Neal Stephenson's fictional data haven in the novel Cryptonomicon, and various details match up as well — an investor named Avi, location on an island, affiliation with cypherpunks, use of cryptography, etc. Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known primarily for his Science fiction works in the Postcyberpunk genre A data haven is a Computer or a network that holds Data protected from government action by both technical means ( Encryption) and location in Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by Neal Stephenson. It concurrently follows the exploits of World War II -era Cryptographers affiliated with The cypherpunks comprise an informal group of people interested in Privacy and Cryptography who originally communicated through the cypherpunks Mailing list Cryptography (or cryptology; from Greek grc κρυπτός kryptos, "hidden secret" and grc γράφω gráphō, "I write" However, HavenCo was already in operation before the book was in wide circulation, and the concept of a data haven is a far older idea. The use of small islands as tax havens and flags of convenience is perhaps a hundred years old, and data havens claim to be an extension of that same theme. A tax haven is a place where certain Taxes are levied at a low rate or not at all A flag of convenience (FOC vessel or ship is one where the nationality of the owner is different from the country of registration

References

  1. ^ Havenco - Sealand Internet Law

External links


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