The record, 1994–2002

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]

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]

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.^⁠[9]

1998. Assured Card Corporation filed the ASSURED CREDIT CARD trademarks in the United States on 21 September 1998, for consumer lending services.^⁠[4][10] It was registered in British Columbia on 14 October 1998.^⁠[11] 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.^⁠[12][13] In December 1998, assuredcard.com and assuredcredit.com both showed a site titled “Welcome to CreditAssure Card”.^⁠[14][15] Milinx Business Group, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware on 10 December 1998.^⁠[3]

1999. Milinx began operations on 10 February 1999.^⁠[16] 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.^⁠[17] Assured Card Corporation remained a separate company.^⁠[3][18]

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”.^⁠[19] The Milinx Application Data Center commenced operations on 31 July 2000 and was officially opened on 15 September 2000.^{⁠[20][21][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.^⁠[22] On 13 November 2000 Milinx announced Maynard L. Dokken’s appearance on World Business Review, with Vinton Cerf on the panel.^⁠[23]

2001. On 21 February 2001 Milinx reported that more than 30,000 users had at least one ASP TechONE service enabled.^⁠[24] In May 2001 Milinx’s online store, miSTORE, had its storefront, sign-up and checkout pages online at mistore.milinx.com.^{⁠[25][26][27]} From the end of May 2001, as a condition of new funding, an advisor placed by the funders managed the operating company.^⁠[28] Most staff were laid off on 19 and 22 June 2001.^⁠[29] A new management team came in during August and September 2001.^⁠[30][31] 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.^⁠[12]

2002. Maynard L. Dokken resigned from Milinx on 25 January 2002.^⁠[32]