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	Wikinfo \| HavenCo
		HavenCo is best known for establishing a secure colocation facility on an artificial fortress which was called Roughs Tower constructed by the UK military in the North Sea during World War II.
		HavenCo's founders include Ryan Lackey, who left the company in 2003, Sean and Jo Hastings, Avi Freedman (a well-known networking expert), and several others, as well as a close partnership with the royal family of Sealand, especially Prince Michael of Sealand, who is also HavenCo's COO.
		HavenCo has no restrictions on copyright or intellectual property on their servers, arguing that since Sealand is not a member of the World Trade Organization or WIPO, international intellectual property law does not apply to it.
	www.internet-encyclopedia.org /wiki.php?title=HavenCo (451 words)

	Data Haven Says It Offers Freedom From Observation
		HavenCo Ltd. was founded as a co-location facility whose value proposition is that it won't cooperate with national or international courts that order it to disclose data.
		HavenCo's headquarters are in the British West Indies, but its co-location facility is on a 60-foot tower rising out of the North Sea, in 24 feet of water, six miles east of the industrial port of Felixstowe on the southeastern coast of England.
		Hastings said HavenCo's goal is to raise a total of $3 million before it closes its first round of funding at the end of the year.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2000/0,4814,53906,00.html (1906 words)

	HavenCo: show and prove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HavenCo was a "datahaven" created by a small group of pro-freedom individuals in 1999, and in operation as a datahaven in the self-declared "Principality of Sealand", more or less, until the end of 2002.
		I founded HavenCo in 1999, served as CTO from inception until December 2002, and was largely responsible for the operations of the entire company during that period.
		HavenCo was a datahaven from 2000-2002 operated from the self-declared Principality of Sealand in the North Sea.
	havenco.venona.com (829 words)

	Has 'haven' for questionable sites sunk? \| CNET News.com
		When HavenCo launched in June 2000 to widespread press acclaim--including a cover story in Wired magazine--its founders promised to transform a windswept gun tower anchored six miles off the stormy coast of England into a co-location facility that would be a virtual home for businesses that were too controversial to place their servers elsewhere.
		HavenCo is located on a rusting, basketball-court-size fortress erected by the British military during World War II to shoot down Nazi aircraft.
		Lackey, who said HavenCo owes him $220,000 in cash and additional money in stock, said another problem was the Sealand family's tinkering with the network connection, which caused extended outages and occasionally left it dependent solely on a slow satellite link.
	news.com.com /2100-1028_3-5059676.html (978 words)

	SCAMDOG.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HavenCo is physically located in the Principality of Sealand, which is a World War II anti-aircraft military fortress in the North Sea.
		HavenCo is working with the "Royal Family" of Sealand to provide substantial bandwidth and extreme reliability.
		HavenCo will have to build alternative facilities as soon as they can (which they are working on).
	www.scamdog.com /freedom_projects/?view=havenco_sealand (844 words)

	Rebel Outpost on the Fringes of Cyberspace
		Their company, known as Havenco, has struck a financial arrangement with a self-proclaimed prince, Roy Bates, an eccentric retired British army major who in 1968 briefly gained notoriety when he landed at the abandoned fortress and declared it a sovereign nation -- the Principality of Sealand -- outside the reach of British law.
		The Havenco founders are loosely associated with a movement of American computer mavens known as "cypherpunks," a largely libertarian group espousing the idea that advanced computer encryption technologies can create electronic privacy and provide liberty and freedom from potential government Big Brothers.
		He said that the flaw in the Havenco plan was that cyberspace markets must still have points of contact with the world's conventional economies.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles/04have.html (1056 words)

	EXN.ca \| Technology
		HavenCo is offering what it calls "secure Web hosting" on its server farm for any company or organization that is looking for a Web hosting service that is free of any existing global legislation and tax laws.
		HavenCo, which has just secured $3 million of startup funding, says that the Principality of Sealand is a former World War II anti- aircraft military fortress in the North Sea, and that only authorized persons directly involved in the HavenCo project are permitted to land on the island.
		Sean Hastings, HavenCo's CEO, said that running an e-business 365 days a year means that the political system needs to be at least as reliable as your computer system.
	exn.ca /Stories/2000/06/05/03.asp (726 words)

	Renesys Blog: Sealand No More?
		Havenco proposed to capitalize on this by offering convenient colocation for financial services and other secret services beyond the reach of nations who could tax or otherwise interfere.
		Secondly, Havenco had to buy transit (expensive transit) from the British mainland and was therefore subject to Acceptable Use Policies of its providers.
		There were management/financial/etc. issues subsequent to that (specifically, the "Sealand Government" meddling with HavenCo, and refusing to allow movies88.com to host there), but I described all of this in a 2003 defcon presentation.
	www.renesys.com /blog/2006/06/sealand_no_more.shtml (565 words)

	HavenCo: the free world just milliseconds away
		By referring your favorite vendors and websites, you can benefit from HavenCo's secure colocation; if your personal and business information is stored on a server at HavenCo, it will be protected from civil or criminal actions, and the high security offered by the facility will keep it from falling into the wrong hands.
		The customer must remain a customer of HavenCo for at least six monthly billing cycles before the referral bonus is paid; normally, this means referral bonuses will not be paid for at least 180 days.
		HavenCo will ask new accounts if they were referred, and if so, by whom.
	www.inventati.info /pub/defcon11/Lackey/www/www.havenco.com/products_and_services/referrals.html (308 words)

	HavenCo's Gilbert & Sullivan Journey
		BACK IN 2000, the HavenCo datahaven project was all the rage for Net-ziens, carefully spun through skillful manipulation of sympathetic media -- such as Wired -- as a bastion of freedom on the Internet.
		According to his DEFCON 11 presentation here, he was an active participant in the company from day one and even after the other founders left and handed over the keys to the operation to Sealand's "Prince" Michael in the Summer of '02.
		HavenCo, Metacolo, and future pro-liberty utopias are pre-doomed to failure without structured ways to resolve disputes between their "country of operation" and themselves.
	www.theinquirer.net /?article=11109 (1336 words)

	Wired News: A Data Sanctuary Is Born
		The founders of HavenCo, which will announce operations on Monday, believe the concept will appeal to individuals and businesses looking for a "safe haven" from governments around that world that are becoming more and more interested in Internet regulation and taxation.
		To create HavenCo -- which will offer Linux servers for $1,500 a month -- the founders signed an agreement with Roy Bates, the quirky "crown prince" of Sealand who landed on the abandoned platform in 1966 and claimed it as an independent nation with its own currency, stamps, and flag.
		This time the elder Bates, now about 80 years old, is taking no chances on his business partners: His son and royal heir-apparent, Michael, is HavenCo's chief logistics officer and the royal family has a seat on the board.
	www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,36749,00.html (928 words)

	New Nation Born — on Stilts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HavenCo clients will have close to a gigabyte-per-second Internet bandwidth before the end of the year, at a cost far below their price in over-regulated European nations.
		What Sealand’s HavenCo wants is to give people a safe, secure shelter from lawyers, prying government agents and other such official busybodies.
		While they will allow what might be illegal elsewhere, such as sending of adults-only soft porn to countries where it is forbidden and movement of funds without monitoring by nosy governments, they will ban such outright criminality as kiddie porn, spamming or drug-money laundering.
	www.newsmax.com /articles/?a=2000/6/20/125020 (447 words)

	HavenCo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HavenCo Limited is a data hosting services company founded in 2000 which operates from Sealand, an unrecognized 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.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HavenCo (555 words)

	IT-Director.com - Haven: A New Country in Cyberspace
		HavenCo appears to be a group of mainly US libertarians that deeply distrust all governments and wish to establish an area of the internet that is free from all government interference of any kind.
		HavenCo will impose an acceptable use policy on its customers, which in practice will mean no extreme pornography, Spam activity or protected hacker activity.
		Even allowing for the fact that governments, including the UK government whose jurisdiction is a mere 3 miles away from Haven, might turn a blind eye to some violations of their laws, it is unlikely that tax violations and money laundering will be tolerated for very long.
	www.it-director.com /content.php?articleid=858"e=gen (532 words)

	Web Host Industry News \| Sealand: Taking "Offshore Hosting" to A New Level
		HavenCo's goal is to establish the world's first true offshore "data haven" seven miles from land and in the middle of international waters.
		To do this, HavenCo has teamed up with the Principality of Sealand, the self-proclaimed "world's smallest sovereign territory." Sealand is a 6,000 square-foot gun tower in the middle of Europe's North Sea, seven miles from Britain's mainland.
		HavenCo takes care of issues related to the physical location of Sealand (like actually mounting a server on a rack), and the user takes care of the rest.
	thewhir.com /marketwatch/sealand.cfm (1219 words)

	If Napster Goes Down Will It be Revived On Sealand? - Global Policy Forum - Nations and States
		HavenCo Ltd. rents computer power and Internet data storage space on Sealand, which has operated for 30 years as a sovereign territory off the coast of England.
		Currently, the legs of Sealand are being used by HavenCo as a secure collocation facility for Internet servers; the remainder of space is used for power generation, maintenance, and housing.
		HavenCo allows gambling, pyramid schemes, adult porn, subpoena-proof email, and untraceable bank accounts, but spam, cyper-sabotage, money laundering, and child-porn are banned.
	www.globalpolicy.org /nations/exprment/0426seal.htm (1432 words)

	Sealand - Contextos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HavenCo recibió una amplia cobertura mediática, empezando por la portada en papel de Wired, siguiendo por más de 200 artículos en prensa y no pocos reportajes televisivos.
		En ellos, HavenCo aseguraba haber establecido una granja de servidores seguros en Sealand y que comenzaría a ofrecer sus servicios como santuario de datos en diciembre de 2000.
		HavenCo dió nombre e inspiró en parte al paraiso de datos del Criptonomicón, la famosa novela de Neal Stephenson.
	www.deugarte.com /wiki/contextos/Sealand (1653 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Offshore and offline?
		HavenCo says laws soon to be adopted in the UK and US will give governments power to snoop on web-based businesses.
		Now HavenCo, which is registered in Anguilla, is planning to site its servers in the 75 feet tall concrete pillars that form Sealand.
		HavenCo says it will ensure that the businesses trading from its computers are not doing anything illegal.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/778267.stm (581 words)

	Geek.com Geek News - Is HavenCo going under?
		HavenCo, an Internet hosting co-location company based in the Principality of Sealand, touts itself as the securest such company in the world.
		I am glad that HavenCo has made it possible for the disenfranchised to have their say on the Internet.
		But if HavenCo goes bust that might allow the government to get their greedy grubby paws into the internet pie after all.
	www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2003Aug/gee20030807021209.htm (686 words)

	TIME Europe \| The Data Haven \| 7/17/2000
		Hastings is founder and ceo of HavenCo (www.havenco.com), which seeks to offer a regulation-free cyberhaven to any company wanting "unsurpassed physical security from the world, including government subpoenas and search-and-seizures of equipment and data," according to a company statement.
		But HavenCo's rather earnest assertion that "individuals and groups engaging in unsavory activities will be publicly admonished in a world where communications are free" does not wash with the British government, which insists that Sealand is part of the U.K. and therefore subject to British laws.
		HavenCo and its hardy hosts evidently plan on being around a lot longer: they have reportedly stockpiled a year's worth of food, fuel and other supplies in case of a blockade.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/2000/0717/safehaven.html (673 words)

	Turmoil at HavenCo (Wired Space)
		Ryan Lackey, the former chief technical officer for HavenCo, says the company is nearing financial ruin and has just six remaining customers.
		Lackey attributed HavenCo's troubles to difficulties with the "ruling family" of the Principality of Sealand, which claims to be a sovereign nation even though the platform lies within British territorial waters.
		Lackey is still listed as the administrative and technical contacts for HavenCo in domain records.
	www.carrierhotels.com /wiredspace/archives/000156.html (288 words)

	(Neil McAllister) Platform Independence?: HavenCo Gives New Meaning to "Guerrilla Marketing"
		Indeed, by some accounts HavenCo was born when Jo and Sean Hastings had a chance encounter with noted cypherpunk Sameer Parekh, founder of the Oakland-based cryptography company C2Net, at a conference in 1998.
		And while HavenCo claims its man-made island is independent, in truth the weakness of any island-bound online business will be its Internet connection; sever that, and the effect would be more profound than any naval blockade.
		HavenCo claims it will have redundant connections installed "soon" — but in truth, it will always be at the mercy of the governments of the mainland nations that provide its service and the other businesses that route its traffic.
	fatalexception.org /articles/2000/20000629.html (1347 words)

	Wired 8.07: Welcome to Sealand. Now Bugger Off.
		The startup is called, fittingly, HavenCo Ltd. Headquartered on a 6,000-square-foot, World War II-era antiaircraft deck that comprises the "land" of Sealand, the facility isn't much to look at and probably never will be.
		HavenCo will provide its clients with nearly a gigabit per second of Internet bandwidth by year's end, at prices far cheaper than those on the overregulated dry land of Europe - whose financial capitals sit a mere 20 milliseconds away from Sealand's electronic nerve center.
		HavenCo will be "offshore" both physically and in the sense that its clients - who will purchase preconfigured "colocation" computers maintained and secured by HavenCo - will basically be able to tell the rest of the world to shove it.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/8.07/haven.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set= (952 words)

	The Bloor Perspective: Transmeta versus Intel, HavenCo, and Chinese walls come tumbling down - PDAs - Breaking Business ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HavenCo is a company that intends to establish an independent (of all governments) colony in cyberspace which could ultimately evolve into a real country.
		HavenCo appears to comprise a group of mainly US libertarians that deeply distrust all governments and wish to establish an area of the Internet that is free from all governmental interference.
		Even allowing for the fact governments - including the UK government whose jurisdiction is a mere three miles away from Haven - might turn a blind eye to some violations of their laws, it is unlikely that tax violations and money laundering will be tolerated for very long.
	hardware.silicon.com /pdas/0,39024840,11017983,00.htm (1060 words)

	Cynical-C Blog: Havenco and the Principality of Sealand
		HavenCo Limited is exploiting a unique opportunity to set up the world's first real data haven.
		HavenCo is building a secure managed colocation business with the added advantage that the customers' data will also be physically secure against any legal action.
		The company does not depend upon the continued legal status of Sealand as a de-facto sovereign nation, but it is in a position to provide a completely new niche in the secure colocation industry from that status in conjunction with a first-world location.
	www.cynical-c.com /archives/004214.html (162 words)

	Welcome to Sealand. Now Bugger Off - Global Policy Forum - Nations and States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Whether or not HavenCo counts as creakingly honest, it isn't the sort of enterprise you'd expect to come from a 78-year-old fisherman, and it didn't.
		HavenCo won't have these vulnerabilities, Lackey says, because even its customers won't be allowed to visit Sealand or to provide their own equipment.
		HavenCo's founders say their inspiration didn't come from a novel, but from a chance meeting at a financial cryptography conference held in 1998.
	www.globalpolicy.org /nations/sovereign/statehood/expment/2000/07sealand.htm (6903 words)

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