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NZB Portal (nzbportal.co) : The New Merlins Portal

August 8, 2010 By

Last month we talked about Merlins Portal and the farewell letter left by Merlin.  In it Merlin talked about the notion of joining a new site and helping out.  At the time there was rumor that NZB Portal (nzbportal.co) was the new site in reference.  Now we can confirm the notion as Merlins-Portal.net is linking to NZB Portal.


We spent some time looking over the new site and enjoyed the layout, features and friendly tone in the forums.  NZBPortal has a forum built on vBulletin which offers some nice features.  In addition to several search options.  The site already boasts over 200,000 NZB files across some 600+ days of binary retention.

In addition to searching by topic NZB Portal offers a number of advanced search options.  You can search by post, group message, forum, group and more.  They also allow you to filter by date and sort by relevance, title, date and user.  Not to mention browsing forum posts for useful information and getting involved in the discussions.

Can NZB Portal match the huge success of Merlins Portal?  I guess we’ll find out over time.  For now we’re very happy to see the new site (run by Merlin editors) and wish them the very best.

To learn more visit jfen.co.uk (update: the site has moved to nzbportal.co), read our NZB Portal review or visit the Usenet search engine section of NGR to compare all the top NZB sites.

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Usenet Celebrates Two Years of Binary Retention

August 7, 2010 By

Usenet celebrates an exciting milestone today as Giganews passes two years of binary retention.  Quite an accomplishment considering five years ago 50 days was the best around and we were very happy to have it.

Astraweb is also nearing at 720 days of binary retention.  Other Usenet providers including NewsDemon and UseNetServer are well over a year and a half of binaries.

Giganews also offers 2,600+ days of text retention.  That’s over seven years of text posts.  If you need to find some old school newsgroup posts try Google Groups.

Keep an eye on our Usenet provider section for daily retention updates.

Filed Under: Giganews, Usenet Providers Tagged With:

ThunderNews NGR Special : 50% Lifetime Savings

August 5, 2010 By

Thanks to ThunderNews for offering NewsgroupReviews visitors 50% off both their unlimited and 75/GB monthly plans.  The new ThunderNews NGR specials are recurring so you can enjoy the savings month after month for the life of your account.

ThunderNews offers quite a bit for the price.  The service is fast, realiable and includes extras like free SSL and a licensed copy of News Rover.

Here is a more detailed list of ThunderNews Usenet features:
- 600+ days of bianry retention
- 1,265+ days of text retention
- 99%+ completion rate
- Up to 50 connections (you won’t need near that many)
- 2 US and 2 EU server farms (standards and SSL)
- Free 256-bit SSL encryption
- Free licensed copy of News Rover newsreader
- 24/7 chat and email support
- Unlimited uploads
- Alternate ports

Read our ThunderNews review to learn more about the service or sign up for the ThunderNews NGR special and enjoy!

Filed Under: ThunderNews, Usenet Providers Tagged With: ,

NGR Demon Trial : 7 Days Free + $10.95 Demon Deal

August 3, 2010 By

For a limited time NewsDemon is offering NewsgroupReviews (NGR) visitors a 7 day, 15 GB free trial that ends in the Demon Deal ($10.95 unlimited Usenet with lots of extras).

So whats the deal.  Doesn’t NewsDemon already offer new customers a free 7 day trial?  They sure do.  The difference being that the NGR Demon trial ends with a 50% lifetime discount.  Instead of paying $22.99 for the Unlimited Plus plan you only pay $10.95 for all the same great features with the NGR Demon Trial + Demon Deal.  Same great trial.  Same great features.  Half the price for life!

The Unlimited Plus (Demon Deal) trial + special includes:
- 7 days and up to 15 GB of downloads free
- $10.95/mo. unlimited Usenet for life
- Free newsreader (News Rover – $29.95 value)
- Free 30 GB of online storage via StorageNinja
- 600 days of binary retention
- 1,265 days of text retention
- 99%+ completion rate
- 100,000+ newsgroups
- 50 concurrent connections
- Free SSL encryption
- News servers in the US and Europe
- 24/7 tech support

Read our NewsDemon review to learn more about the service or sign up for the NGR Demon Trial and enjoy!

Filed Under: NewsDemon, Usenet Providers Tagged With: , ,
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