The record, 1994–2002

CreditAssure is not operating at this time.

This timeline is the same on assuredcard.co, assuredcredit.co, creditassure.co and milinx.co. The numbers after each sentence lead to its sources, listed under References at the foot of this page. Milinx’s filings are the floor of this record; where it says more, it names the source: an archived page, a register entry, or Maynard L. Dokken’s account.

1. 1994

   Assured Card began in British Columbia; its company was registered on 8 March 1994.^⁠[1] Maynard L. Dokken began researching a new credit card product in 1994.^⁠[2][3]

2. 1996

   The company took the name Assured Card Coordinating Services Inc. on 29 May 1996.^⁠[1] The Assured Credit Card name was first used in May 1996, as its later trademark filing states.^⁠[4] Enrolment on paper began to give way to a closed system reached through a packaged browser over an encrypted connection.^⁠[5]

3. 1997

   Milinx Marketing Group Inc. was registered in British Columbia on 27 June 1997, and the Milinx name was in use from September 1997.^⁠[6][7][8] Development of the Assured Credit backend and an on-site terminal for customers was under way.^⁠[5]

4. 1998

   Assured Card Corporation filed the ASSURED CREDIT CARD trademarks in the United States on 21 September 1998, for consumer lending services.^⁠[4][9] It was registered in British Columbia on 14 October 1998.^⁠[10] It filed CREDIT ASSURE in Canada on 29 October 1998, for consumer lending services, namely providing lines of credit, and in the United States on 2 November 1998.^⁠[11][12] In December 1998, assuredcard.com and assuredcredit.com both showed a site titled “Welcome to CreditAssure Card”.^⁠[13][14] Milinx Business Group, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware on 10 December 1998.^⁠[3]

5. 1999

   Milinx began operations on 10 February 1999.^⁠[15] On 15 March 1999 it took an exclusive licence of the CreditAssure trademark from Credit Assure International, Inc., an affiliated company.^⁠[3] On 15 October 1999 it acquired Credit Assure International’s assets, including the worldwide rights to the CreditAssure trademark.^⁠[16] Assured Card Corporation remained a separate company.^⁠[3][17]

6. 2000

   Milinx became a public company in January 2000, and its shares began trading on the OTC Bulletin Board, as MIXBA, on 8 June 2000.^⁠[2][3] On 10 March 2000 it filed Canadian patent application CA 2,300,347, “Client-centered secure e-commerce”.^⁠[18] The Milinx Application Data Center commenced operations on 31 July 2000 and was officially opened on 15 September 2000.^{⁠[19][20][3]} On 2 October 2000 Heartland Payment Systems announced an alliance with Milinx subsidiary CreditAssure Financial, Inc., so that Milinx’s e-commerce clients could apply online for internet merchant accounts.^⁠[21] On 13 November 2000 Milinx announced Maynard L. Dokken’s appearance on World Business Review, with Vinton Cerf on the panel.^⁠[22]

7. 2001

   On 21 February 2001 Milinx reported that more than 30,000 users had at least one ASP TechONE service enabled.^⁠[23] In May 2001 Milinx’s online store, miSTORE, had its storefront, sign-up and checkout pages online at mistore.milinx.com.^{⁠[24][25][26]} From the end of May 2001, as a condition of new funding, an advisor placed by the funders managed the operating company.^⁠[27] Most staff were laid off on 19 and 22 June 2001.^⁠[28] A new management team came in during August and September 2001.^⁠[29][30] The CREDIT ASSURE application in Canada, assigned to Milinx Business Group and recorded on 27 December 2000, was allowed in July 2001 and abandoned in January 2002.^⁠[11]

8. 2002

   Maynard L. Dokken resigned from Milinx on 25 January 2002.^⁠[31]

Dates the documents give differently

• The reverse-merger filing of January 2000 said that Milinx’s shares were not yet traded on the OTC Bulletin Board;^⁠[2] its 10-K of October 2000 records that trading began on 8 June 2000.^⁠[3]
• Milinx’s releases date the start of operations at its Application Data Center to 31 July 2000 and its official opening to 15 September 2000;^⁠[19][20] its home page, as captured on 15 August 2000, carried the July item.^⁠[32] The 10-K of October 2000 says that its Data Center opened in August 2000.^⁠[3]