worcester uk key people chirag patel director sarah bratchell director claudio corbetta director stephen ewart director federico bronzi director lorenzo lepri director products internet services number of employees 120 july 2014 website http www.names.co.uk namesco ltd names.co.uk provides professional online services for individuals and businesses including domain name registration web hosting website building tools email services ecommerce solutions and a range of managed and unmanaged servers . contents 1 history 2 awards 3 security problems 4 references 5 external links history edit namesco was originally founded by richard and rachel suthering as a small internet startup named names.co internet services limited originally based in north east england . in 1997 another internet startup was founded by kevin savage jason smith and john sewell named phase8.com webcall.com limited based in worcester . following the dot com boom names.co internet services limited became a public limited company and floated on the london unlisted securities market with a new name of namesco internet plc in 2000 . the following year they acquired phase8.com webcall.com limited for the sum of 2 450 000 . despite acquiring smaller web hosting companies and resellers along the way including smartchoicenet the publicly quoted namesco struggled to be viable citing the increasingly competitive nature of the domain name and web hosting business and the additional costs of maintaining listed status as the reasons for a lack of profitability . in 2002 it was rumoured that ian gowrie smith australian chairman of drug company skyepharma was planning a reverse takeover of namesco with the assistance of its chief executive and finance director david lees . 1 trading of namesco shares on aim were suspended on the 19th december 2003 2 3 prior to the announcement of gowrie smith s action . a vietnamese gold mining company larchland was injected into the company in a 19.6 million reverse takeover deal that saw the business renamed as triple junction plc. namesco was hived down into a subsidiary and sold to womerah limited . 4 5 as a privately owned company namesco then had the capital to make new acquisitions as part of their growth strategy . in july 2004 they acquired namesweb ; a small domain and web hosting business 6 and on the 17th september 2004 they doubled the size of their internet business by acquiring a competitor the local and profitable malvern based simply.com limited for gbp 2.15 m. simply.com limited at the time managed 91 000 domain names and 32 000 active customers . 7 in march 2005 the assets of domain and hosting business net2 ltd were acquired 8 followed by the acquisition of broadband business ndo ltd in july . 9 as ndo also sold domain names web hosting and dialup internet access this acquisition allowed namesco to offer its customers adsl services . in july 2007 namesco ltd was purchased by register.it spa an italian internet company owned by dada for 24.5 million . having previously acquired spanish company nominalia this added a substantial uk operation to the division . 10 further acquisitions followed including xsession.com limited in october 11 the assets of serve360.com in november and the assets of ukdomains.com in december . on 28 may 2008 namesco ltd acquired the assets of register365 ireland s largest hosting provider through its subsidiary namesco ireland ltd adding 40 000 domains to its portfolio . 12 this made namesco the fourth largest uk provider of domain names and shared hosting services . in 2010 poundhost was acquired as a subsidiary of namesco limited 13 further consolidating their presence in the european market and opening up the potential of the us market with 30 % of poundhost s high end customer base residing in america . in 2014 namesco s broadband customer base was acquired by the phone co op ; commercial director of namesco stephen ewart said this was to enable the company to focus on their core product ranges of web hosting domain name registry email and website building services . 14 awards edit listed finalist for best dedicated hosting managed at the internet service providers ispa awards 2015 15 listed finalists in uk s best shared hosting provider at the internet service providers ispa awards 2011 16 voted uk s best shared hosting provider for the second year at the internet service providers ispa awards 2009 17 wins uk web hosting directories number one unix web hosting award for 2009 . wins webhostdirectory s number one award for shared hosting for 2009 . nominated for the pc pro magazines best web hosts award 2008 won the best shared hosting award from the ispa awards in 2008 . 18 finalist for best dedicated hosting award from the ispa awards in 2008 . 18 2nd best small isp award from pc advisor in 2007 . 19 finalist for best consumer broadband award from the ispa awards in 2007 . 20 finalist for best business broadband award from the ispa awards in 2007 . 20 finalist for best consumer email award from the ispa awards in 2007 . 20 finalist for best business email award from the ispa awards in 2007 . 20 won the best buy for broadband award from pc advisor in 2006 . citation needed won the best customer satisfaction award from pc advisor in 2006 . citation needed security problems edit 13 january 2012 namesco suffered a security breach which resulted in over 100 customers needing to cancel their cards . ... card details were leaked after hackers broke into namesco s systems namesco warned that users account administration email account names dates of birth contact numbers and postal addresses may also have been exposed by the breach . namesco notified the information commissioners office about this loss and customers were advised to update their passwords and cancel their card details . however the company faced criticism over the format of their warning which bore similarities to emails used in phishing scams . 21 22 references edit hume neil 21 jun 2002 . what s in a names.co . the guardian . statement re . suspension names.co internet . fe trustnet . names.co internet has trading suspension lifted . econsultancy.com . conway edmund 19 jan 2004 . gowrie smith seeks gold in 19.6 m deal . the telegraph . names.co internet interim results . fe investegate . namesweb acquired . namesco blog . richardson tim 22 sep 2004 . namesco buys simply.com . the register . namesco acquires net2 . namesco blog . namesco acquires ndo.com limited . namesco blog . dada acquires namesco ltd. uk leader in domain registration and hosting services . business wire . london gazette 2007 08 07 . london gazette section 652 . retrieved 2007 11 08 . dead link namesco acquires register365 . thewhir.com . uk web host namesco buys poundhost . thewhir.com . the phone co op snaps up namesco s broadband customer base . uswitch.com . best dedicated hosting . the internet services providers association ispa . 2011 winners . the internet services providers association ispa . 2009 winners . the internet services providers association ispa . a b ispa 2008 03 14 . ispa awards list 2008 . archived from the original on 2008 03 01 . retrieved 2008 03 18 . cite error invalid ref tag ; name ispa awards 2008 defined multiple times with different content see the help page . pc advisor 2007 07 01 . pc advisor awards list 2007 . retrieved 2007 11 08 . a b c d 2007 winners . the internet services providers association ispa . http www.theregister.co.uk 2012 01 13 namesco phish like security warning http www.ispreview.co.uk story 2012 01 14 hackers breach namesco security to steal uk customers credit card details.html external links edit names.co.uk website official website of triple plate junction plc retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title namesco & oldid 702493049 categories internet service providers of the united kingdomcompanies based in worcestercompanies established in 1996hidden categories pages with reference errorsall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2010pages with duplicate reference namesuse dmy dates from november 2013use british english from november 2013pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from november 2007 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 30 january 2016 at 22 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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