UUNET Technologies was one of the first commercial Internet service providers, founded in 1987 by Rick Adams in Virginia to commercialize Usenet and email, launching the AlterNet IP backbone in 1990. Backed by Accel Partners, Menlo Ventures, and NEA, it IPO'd on NASDAQ in 1995, was acquired by MFS Communications for $2B in 1996, which WorldCom bought that same year; after the MCI merger and Verizon's 2006 acquisition the UUNET brand was retired into Verizon Business. The brand is defunct today - its legacy domains (uu.net, uunet.com) remain Verizon-operated DNS zones whose web hosts only redirect to verizon.com/business, and it publishes no APIs or developer surface.
UUNET Technologies is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Internet Service Provider, Networking, Telecommunications, and Internet Backbone.
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name: UUNET Technologies
description: UUNET Technologies was one of the first commercial Internet service providers, founded in 1987 by Rick Adams
in Virginia to commercialize Usenet and email, launching the AlterNet IP backbone in 1990. Backed by Accel Partners, Menlo
Ventures, and NEA, it IPO'd on NASDAQ in 1995, was acquired by MFS Communications for $2B in 1996, which WorldCom bought
that same year; after the MCI merger and Verizon's 2006 acquisition the UUNET brand was retired into Verizon Business. The
brand is defunct today - its legacy domains (uu.net, uunet.com) remain Verizon-operated DNS zones whose web hosts only redirect
to verizon.com/business, and it publishes no APIs or developer surface.
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modified: '2026-07-21'
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- Internet Service Provider
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