london united kingdom ceo patrick pulvermuller managing director richard winslow industry domain registrar web hosting ssl certificates small businesses employees 1 200 parent heg website www .123 reg.co.uk 123 reg is the uk s largest accredited domain registrar 1 providing internet services to small and medium sized business . 123 reg is part of heg europe s largest privately owned hosting company . 2 as of 2016 123 reg was said to manage over 3.5 million domain names and is said to be connected to over 1m websites in the uk representing 1 in 5 of the uk s active websites . history edit 123 reg was founded in 2000 3 by jonathan brealey and tim beresford who prior to this also set up webfusion internet solutions ltd in 1997 . 4 according to the company s parent 123 reg became the uk s largest domain registrar in 2004 and passed the 3 million domain names under management in 2012 . 5 vps deletion episode edit on 16 april 2016 123 reg admitted a major deletion of a large number of vps servers caused by an error during what should have been routine maintenance . 6 the event deleted hundreds of websites with users losing sites and access to data on their vps service . by 24 april 2016 the situation was still ongoing . during this period 123 reg had a further data breach with customers being able to see the support tickets of other account holders 7 references edit registrar list nominet . nominet . retrieved 2016 03 22 . heg hosting europe s smes megabuyte . www.megabuyte.com . retrieved 2016 09 08 . where to register domain names and host your web site . king solutions . retrieved 2016 03 22 . notts internet company acquired by plc. information technology and telecoms uk . www.mondaq.com . retrieved 2016 03 22 . welcome to heg inspiring next generation businesses . heg . retrieved 2016 03 22 . reporter chris foxx technology . web host 123 reg deletes sites in clean up error . bbc news . retrieved 2016 04 24 . exclusive 123 reg suffered serious security lapse while deleting 67 servers . cloud pro . retrieved 2016 04 24 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title 123 reg & oldid 738369439 categories domain registrarscompanies of the united kingdomweb hostingcryptography 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 8 september 2016 at 15 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view