Milinx, 1997–2002

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The record, 1994–2002

One timeline for Assured Card, Assured Credit, CreditAssure and Milinx, with the source of every sentence.

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 Milinx’s filings are the floor of this record; where it says more, it names the source: an archived page, a register entry, or Maynard L. Dokken’s account.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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Maynard L. Dokken resigned from Milinx on 25 January 2002.⁠[31]

Maynard L. Dokken’s roles, 2001 and 2002

Maynard L. Dokken gave up the title of President on 28 August 2001, remained CEO, and became Chairman on 28 August 2001.⁠[29] He resigned all his roles, as director and CEO of Milinx and all its subsidiaries, on 25 January 2002.⁠[31]

Dates the documents give differently

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

Sources: three kinds of evidence on this site

  • The filings. Milinx’s reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are the floor of this record: what they confirm is certain. They are listed on Public filings.
  • The archived company pages. Copies of milinx.com, assuredcard.com and assuredcredit.com held by the Internet Archive, dated by the archive’s capture. They show what the company said at the time; the releases on this site are shown as archived.
  • The 2022 notes. The text of the 2022 milinx.co site, kept on the product pages and in the Context sections of the release pages, corrected or removed where the dated record differs. It is the company’s later account.

Every source is listed, with the pages that use it, on Sources.

About this page

This page is new: it was added on 14 November 2026 and has no counterpart on the old site. It holds the shared timeline of Assured Card, Assured Credit, CreditAssure and Milinx, word for word as on assuredcard.co, assuredcredit.co and creditassure.co, with this site’s references after each sentence.

References

Numbered in the order they are first cited on this page. Each entry links back to the places that cite it.

  1. ↑ a b BC company BC0468224, Assured Card Coordinating Services Inc.. BC Registries, OrgBook BC, registered 8 March 1994. Registered 8 March 1994; the name Assured Card Coordinating Services Inc. took effect on 29 May 1996.
  2. ↑ a b c Form 8-K12G3, the reverse merger with Forestay Corporation. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0000891020-00-000041, filed 14 January 2000. Milinx became the reporting company; the biography of Maynard L. Dokken says he began researching a new credit card product in 1994.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Form 10-K for the year to 30 June 2000. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0001096906-00-000256, filed 13 October 2000. Incorporation on 10 December 1998; the CreditAssure licence of 15 March 1999; trading on the OTC Bulletin Board from 8 June 2000 (Item 5); the Data Center opened in August 2000; Assured Card Corporation currently inactive.
  4. ↑ a b ASSURED CREDIT CARD (words), US serial 75559331. USPTO, Trademark Status and Document Retrieval, filed 21 September 1998. Consumer lending services; first use claimed from May 1996; registered 21 November 2000; cancelled 2007.
  5. ↑ a b Maynard L. Dokken’s account. his own account, given for this record, November 2026; not a document of the time. The source for the sentences marked with it.
  6. ↑ BC company BC0545731 (Milinx Marketing Group Inc., later 545731 B.C. Ltd.). BC Registries, OrgBook BC, registered 27 June 1997. Registered in British Columbia on 27 June 1997.
  7. ↑ MILINX, Canadian application 890545. Canadian Intellectual Property Office, filed 16 September 1998. Filed by Milinx Marketing Group Inc., used in Canada since at least September 1997.
  8. ↑ MILINX, US serial 75559330. USPTO, Trademark Status and Document Retrieval, filed 21 September 1998. Filed by Milinx Marketing Group Inc.; use claimed from September 1997.
  9. ↑ ASSURED CREDIT CARD (design), US serial 75559348. USPTO, Trademark Status and Document Retrieval, filed 21 September 1998. Consumer lending services; first use claimed from May 1997; registered 21 November 2000; cancelled 2007.
  10. ↑ BC extraprovincial registration A0048198, Assured Card Corporation. BC Registries, OrgBook BC, registered 14 October 1998. Assured Card Corporation (Delaware) registered in British Columbia on 14 October 1998.
  11. ↑ a b CREDIT ASSURE, Canadian application 894941. Canadian Intellectual Property Office, filed 29 October 1998. Filed by Assured Card Corporation for “Consumer lending services namely providing lines of credit”; assigned to Milinx Business Group Inc., recorded 27 December 2000; allowed 12 July 2001; abandoned 30 January 2002.
  12. ↑ CREDIT ASSURE, US serial 75580649. USPTO, Trademark Status and Document Retrieval, filed 2 November 1998. Filed by Assured Card Corporation on an intent-to-use basis; abandoned 2003.
  13. ↑ assuredcard.com, opening page. Internet Archive, captured 6 December 1998. Page title “Welcome to CreditAssure Card”.
  14. ↑ assuredcredit.com, opening page. Internet Archive, captured 6 December 1998. Page title “Welcome to CreditAssure Card”.
  15. ↑ Form 8-K12G3/A, amendment with audited financial statements. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0000950150-00-000111, filed 15 February 2000. Milinx Business Group, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware on 10 December 1998 and commenced operations on 10 February 1999.
  16. ↑ Form 10-QSB for the quarter to 31 December 1999. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0000891020-00-000338, filed 22 February 2000. The purchase of Credit Assure International’s intangible property, including the worldwide rights to the CreditAssure trademark, on 15 October 1999, for 50,000 common shares.
  17. ↑ Form 10-K for the year to 30 June 2001. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0001096906-01-500480, filed 16 November 2001. Assured Card Corporation listed as currently inactive.
  18. ↑ CA 2,300,347 A1, “Client-centered secure e-commerce”. Google Patents, filed 10 March 2000; published 10 September 2001.
  19. ↑ a b Archived copy of milinx.com/company/press/073100.html. Internet Archive, Wayback Machine, captured 21 January 2001. Capture confirmed through archive.org’s availability API.
  20. ↑ a b Archived copy of milinx.com/company/press/091500.html. Internet Archive, Wayback Machine, captured 21 January 2001. Capture confirmed through archive.org’s availability API.
  21. ↑ Archived copy of milinx.com/company/press/100200.html. Internet Archive, Wayback Machine, captured 21 January 2001. Capture confirmed through archive.org’s availability API.
  22. ↑ Archived copy of milinx.com/company/press/111300.html. Internet Archive, Wayback Machine, captured 21 January 2001. Capture confirmed through archive.org’s availability API.
  23. ↑ Archived copy of www.milinx.com/investor_relations/press/022101.html. Internet Archive, Wayback Machine, captured 28 June 2001. Capture confirmed through archive.org’s availability API.
  24. ↑ mistore.milinx.com, storefront page. Internet Archive, captured 6 May 2001. A miSTORE storefront page online at mistore.milinx.com.
  25. ↑ mistore.milinx.com, sign-up page. Internet Archive, captured 12 May 2001. The miSTORE account sign-up page.
  26. ↑ mistore.milinx.com, checkout page. Internet Archive, captured 7 May 2001. The miSTORE checkout page, asking for a login before checkout.
  27. ↑ Form 8-K (report dated 23 August 2001). U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0001096906-01-500243, filed 24 August 2001. From the end of May 2001 an advisor placed as a condition of funding managed the business operation of Milinx Business Services, Inc.
  28. ↑ Form 8-K, workforce reduction. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0001096906-01-500155, filed 12 July 2001. Milinx laid off the majority of its workforce on 19 and 22 June 2001.
  29. ↑ a b Form 8-K, appointment of a President and Chief Operational Officer. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0001096906-01-500271, filed 30 August 2001. A new President was appointed effective 28 August 2001; Maynard L. Dokken continued as CEO and was appointed Chairman of the Board on 28 August 2001.
  30. ↑ Form 8-K, new senior management team. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0001096906-01-500275, filed 5 September 2001. A new team of senior management, effective 4 September 2001.
  31. ↑ a b Form 8-K, resignation of Maynard L. Dokken. U.S. SEC, EDGAR, accession 0001096906-02-000074, filed 29 January 2002. On 25 January 2002 Maynard L. Dokken resigned as director and CEO of Milinx and all its subsidiaries.