Advanced Internet Technologies
"AIT, Inc." redirects here. For other uses, see AIT (disambiguation).
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| Private | |
| Industry | Hosting |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Fayetteville, North Carolina |
| Products | Hosting, Web hosting, Web design, Web development |
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Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc. (AIT, Inc.), founded in 1995, is a web hosting company based in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Its Founder and CEO is Clarence E. Briggs III, who is a service disabled veteran businessman.[1] AIT maintains a 93,000 square foot facility with a data center in its corporate headquarters in Fayetteville, NC. AIT earned a place on the INC 500, list two times in 2002 and 2003[2] and the Deloitte Fast 500 list three times in 2001, 2002, and 2003.[3] The company offers domain registration, web hosting, cloud hosting, virtual private servers (VPS), and dedicated servers.
History
- May 1995 - Business started while Clarence E. Briggs, III was still on active duty in the US Army.[4]
- April 1996 - Business incorporated while still in spare bedroom of Clarence E. Briggs, III's house.[5]
- June 1999 - Becomes ICANN Accredited Registrar for registering domain names.[6]
- August 1999 - Purchases 26 acres of land to build technology park.[7]
- December 1999 - Cumberland County leases 3-story, 93,000 sq foot facility in downtown Fayetteville, NC to the company.[8]
- December 2005 - Becomes lead plaintiff in class action lawsuit vs. Google.[9]
- April 2007 - Finds their ads were a target of click fraud in their own data center, & sues local paper, Fayetteville Observer.[10]
- September 2010 - Settles lawsuit with Dell, Inc. about faulty capacitors.[11]
References
- ↑ David Hamilton. "Q&A: AIT CEO Clarence Briggs". WHIR. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ↑ "Advanced Internet Technologies - Fayetteville, NC". Inc.com. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ↑ "Plaque images". Ait.com. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ↑ "Press Release WhitServe VS. Domain Registrars, Web Hosts and Technology Providers". tntnames.com.
- ↑ "Company snapshot: Advanced Internet Technologies - TechJournal". Techjournal.org. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ↑ "Fayetteville's AIT entering name game". Fayetteville Observer. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ↑ "Downtown center proposed". Fayetteville Observer. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ↑ "Minutes Cumberland County Board of Commissioners" (PDF). Co.cumberland.nc.us. 1 November 1999. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ↑ "Web Hosting Company AIT Sues Google Search Engine for Fraud". TheHostingNews.com. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ↑ "AIT Exposes New Click Fraud Technique". Webhostmagazine.com. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ↑ "Dell Settles a Client's Claim That It Hid Computer Defects". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
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