IAsiaWorks

iAsiaWorks was an ISP and Internet data center (IDC) from 2000–2001 during the final days of the dot-com era, which built state-of-the-art data centers in Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and other cities. Its IPO on the NASDAQ was IAWK on Aug 19th, 2000.^[1]

iAsiaWorks

Company type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: IAWK
Industry	Internet service provider, Internet data center
Founded	2000
Defunct	2001
Fate	Acquired
Headquarters	Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul
Key people	Jon Beizer (CEO), Jon Engman (CFO), Nick Levay (CSO)
Services	ISP, Datacenter services

Officers

• CEO: Jon Beizer
• CFO: Jon Engman^[2]
• CSO: Nick Levay^[3]

Description

iAsiaWorks began as a Taiwan & Korean ISP called AUNet, raised additional capital, and purchased AT&T's Hong Kong ISP business in early 2000. The newly merged company offered leased line and datacenter space to companies across Asia Pacific, but with a particular focus on Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. In each of these markets it built 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m²) datacenter facilities, which remained mostly empty until it closed in mid to late 2001. The facilities were built to the highest specifications available in Asia. In the fall of 2001 iAsiaWork's facility in Seoul was purchased by Dacom where it consolidated its 'KIDC' operations.^[4] Its former facility in Hong Kong was occupied by Singtel.^[5] The status of the facility in Taiwan remains unknown.