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20-585: UIN may refer to: Common [ edit ] User Identification Number, used by many computer security systems and ICQ, see ICQ#UIN , Unique identifier and User (computing) Universal Identification Number used for people, see National identification number and Unique Identification Authority of India , see also Permanent account number (PAN) used for inventory, see also UID University Identification Number, used by many universities for students, faculty and alumni Unit Identification Number, used by

40-464: A UIN. As such UINs that are stolen can sometimes be reclaimed. This applies only if (since 1999 onwards) a valid primary email address was entered into the user profile. The founding company of ICQ, Mirabilis, was established in June 1996 by five Israeli developers: Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser, Amnon Amir, Arik Vardi, and Arik's father Yossi Vardi . ICQ was one of the first text-based messengers to reach

60-469: A desktop client to a mobile messaging system. As of 2013, around half of ICQ's users were using its mobile apps, and in 2014, the number of users began growing for the first time since the purchase. In March 2016, the source code of the client was released under the Apache license on GitHub . In 2020, Mail.Ru Group decided to launch a new version, "ICQ New", based on the original ICQ. The updated software

80-466: A wide range of users. The technology Mirabilis developed for ICQ was distributed free of charge. The technology's success encouraged AOL to acquire Mirabilis on June 8, 1998, for $ 287 million up front and $ 120 million in additional payments over three years based on performance levels. In 2002 AOL successfully patented the technology. After the purchase, the product was initially managed by Ariel Yarnitsky and Avi Shechter. ICQ's management changed at

100-480: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages ICQ#UIN The ICQ client application and service were initially released in November 1996, freely available to download. The business did not have traditional marketing and relied mostly on word-of-mouth advertising instead, with customers telling their friends about it, who then informed their friends, and so on. ICQ

120-516: The Internet. In 1996, they left Zapa and began to toy with ideas for new Internet innovations. They created ICQ in less than two months, but had no funding. Yossi Vardi , the father of Arik Vardi and one of the founders of Israel Chemicals , agreed to invest a few hundred thousand dollars to develop the technology. Mirabilis was established in a small apartment in San Jose, California, where Internet access

140-456: The end of 2003. Under the leadership of the new CEO, Orey Gilliam, who also assumed the responsibility for all of AOL's messaging business in 2007, ICQ resumed its growth; it was not only a highly profitable company, but one of AOL's most successful businesses. Eliav Moshe replaced Gilliam in 2009 and became ICQ's managing director. In April 2010, AOL sold ICQ to Digital Sky Technologies, headed by Alisher Usmanov , for $ 187.5 million. While ICQ

160-520: The first widely adopted IM platform. At its peak around 2001, ICQ had more than 100 million accounts registered. At the time of the Mail.Ru acquisition in 2010, there were around 42 million daily users. In 2022, ICQ had about 11 million monthly users. The service was shut down on June 26, 2024, following an announcement on the website of ICQ in May 2024 that the service would be discontinued. The last version of

180-617: The investigation of which the evidence of the defendants' guilt was obtained by reading correspondence on a PC or mobile devices. In six of the fourteen cases in which ICQ was involved, the capturing of information occurred before the seizure of the device. Because the rival service Telegram blocks all access for the agencies, the Advisor of the Russian President, Herman Klimenko, recommended to use ICQ instead. In 2023, an investigation by Brazilian news outlet Núcleo Jornalismo found that ICQ

200-694: The military, see Military unit Unit Identification Number, used by the Department of Education, see Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System Unique Identification Number, similar to Universal Identification Number used for people and inventory, see above, and often replaced by Universally unique identifier (UUID) Other uses [ edit ] User Intelligent Network, a type of network artificial intelligence , see, for example Personal communications network Airport code for Quincy Regional Airport in Illinois, United States Topics referred to by

220-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title UIN . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UIN&oldid=1033511775 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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240-477: The service, launched in 2020 as "ICQ New" featured a number of different messaging functions: ICQ users are identified and distinguished from one another by UIN, or User Identification Numbers, distributed in sequential order. The UIN was invented by Mirabilis , as the user name assigned to each user upon registration. Issued UINs started at '10,000' (5 digits) and every user receives a UIN when first registering with ICQ. As of ICQ6 users are also able to log in using

260-450: The specific e-mail address they associated with their UIN during the initial registration process. Unlike other instant messaging software or web applications , on ICQ the only permanent user info is the UIN, although it is possible to search for other users using their associated e-mail address or any other detail they have made public by updating it in their account's public profile. In addition

280-424: The user can change all of his or her personal information, including screen name and e-mail address, without having to re-register. Since 2000 ICQ and AIM users were able to add each other to their contact list without the need for any external clients. (The AIM service has since been discontinued.) As a response to UIN theft or sale of attractive UINs, ICQ started to store email addresses previously associated with

300-437: Was among the first stand-alone instant messenger (IM) applications—while real-time chat was not in itself new ( Internet Relay Chat [IRC] being the most common platform at the time), the concept of a fully centralized service with individual user accounts focused on one-on-one conversations set the blueprint for later instant messaging services like AIM , and its influence is seen in modern social media applications. ICQ became

320-468: Was an "important message" for Russian-speaking ICQ users: "ICQ осуществляет поддержку только авторизированных версий программ: ICQ Lite и ICQ 6.5." ("ICQ supports only authorized versions of programs: ICQ Lite and ICQ 6.5.") According to a Novaya Gazeta article published in May 2018, Russian intelligence agencies had access to online reading of ICQ users' correspondence during crime investigations. The article examined 34 sentences of Russian courts, during

340-497: Was an Israeli company that developed the ICQ instant messaging program, an early example of real-time communication over the Internet. Mirabilis was founded in July 1996 by Arik Vardi, Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir. Goldfinger, Visiger, Vardi and Amir met while working for a Tel Aviv software company, Zapa Digital Arts, that specialized in three-dimensional graphic tools for

360-559: Was displaced by AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, and other competitors in the US and many other countries over the 2000s, it remained the most popular instant messaging network in Russian-speaking countries, and an important part of online culture. Popular UINs demanded over 11,000₽ in 2010. In September of that year, Digital Sky Technologies changed its name to Mail.Ru Group. Since the acquisition, Mail.ru has invested in turning ICQ from

380-715: Was presented to the general public on April 6, 2020. During the second week of January 2021, ICQ saw a renewed increase in popularity in Hong Kong , spurred on by the controversy over WhatsApp's privacy policy update. The number of downloads for the application increased 35-fold in the region. On May 24, 2024, the main page of ICQ's website announced that the service would be shutting down on June 26, 2024. ICQ recommended that users migrate to VK Messenger and VK WorkSpace . AOL (and later Mail.ru) pursued an aggressive policy regarding alternative ("unauthorized") ICQ clients. "Системное сообщение System Message On icq.com there

400-432: Was used to freely share child pornography due to lax moderation policies. AOL 's OSCAR network protocol used by ICQ is proprietary and using a third party client is a violation of ICQ Terms of Service. Nevertheless, a number of third-party clients have been created by using reverse-engineering and protocol descriptions. These clients include: AOL supported clients include: Mirabilis (company) Mirabilis

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