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reseller status
Until at least 2005 and probably still today Namesco are/were a reseller for MelbournIT.com.au and were unable to regester names themselves untill the purchase of simply.com --Lord Matt 21:13, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Recent Awards: Citation Needed
Really if we are to suggest that namesco won awards we have to also say are these notable awards and where are they noted. Furthermore is this a significant detail? --Lord Matt 16:02, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Not everything they do is positive
They use weird blacklists for their customers which block the communication between their customers and their rightful contacts, and there is no abuse email address given anywhere on the namesco website. The contacts' emails are bounced and there is no way to clear anything. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.157.42.208 (talk) 12:06, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
They allow the administrator to set your private password - which is actually a breach of protocol and security. Also you as a user cannot contact them to sort problems that they cause. My ex-employer had an administrator who could reset your password BUT then YOU had to enter a new password. So why can't I change my password when and as often as I wish? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.244.51.200 (talk) 14:01, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
COI/NPOV tags removed, hope that's ok
Website
At this date (28 September 2016) the website www.names.co.uk appears to be inaccessible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.38.84.70 (talk) 10:29, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
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Page updates Aug 25
Our Wikipedia page had not been touched for some time so we now have expanded it out by providing more information about our products and services, as well as some info about sustainability initiatives. At some point, we may want to look into creating a new page called names.co.uk and redirecting this page to that. This is due to us no longer actually being called Namesco, although many people still refer to us as that. TeamblueUK (talk) 14:03, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
Request to add needed citations
 | The user below has a request that an edit be made to Names.co.uk. That user has an actual or apparent conflict of interest. Status: The request has been given an initial review and is awaiting further discussion or additional information. The backlog is very high. Please be extremely patient. There are currently 399 requests waiting for review. Please read the instructions for the parameters used by this template for accepting and declining them, and review the request below and make the edit if it is well sourced, neutral, and follows other Wikipedia guidelines and policies. |
I’ve drafted a request to address the warning box on top of the page noting the need for additional citations. I’ve added sources where I could and requested to remove information which I could not verify through independent sources. I have a WP:COI as a consultant for WhiteHatWiki, which was hired by the subject of this article.
1. What I think should be changed:
Please replace the first paragraph of the History section:
From:
Namesco was 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.[citation needed]
To:
The company was incorporated in 2000 in Worcester, England.[1] Entrepreneurs Kevin Savage and Jason Smith sold their business, Phase8, to Namesco in 2000 and then gained control of the company in a management buyout later that same year.[2]
Why: I’ve preserved what information I can about the company’s founding using independent sources, including a secondary source about the history of the company’s founding. I used a primary source only to confirm the date of the founding. Per WP:PRIMARY primary sources can be used to “make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the primary source but without further, specialized knowledge.”
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2. What I think should be changed: Please delete the second and third paragraphs of the History section: 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.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] Why: Neither paragraph contains citations and I could not find a source to support the claims. |
3. What I think should be changed:
Please replace the fifth paragraph of the History section:
From:
Trading of Namesco shares on AIM were suspended on 19 December 2003[3][4] prior to the announcement of Gowrie-Smith's action. A Vietnamese gold mining company, Larchland, was injected into the company in a £19.6million reverse takeover deal that saw the business renamed as Triple Junction PLC. Namesco was hived down into a subsidiary and sold to Womerah Limited.[5][6]
To:
In 2004, Gowrie-Smith led a £19.6m reverse takeover of Names.co.[7]
Why: Sources 2 and 4 are dead links. I could not find new URLs or versions on the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine). I could not find any other sources that support the information from these three sources. Source 3 is not a reliable source - it’s a blog post from “econsultacy.com”, a marketing website. I’ve preserved what information I can about the reverse takeover using source 4, The Daily Telegraph.
4. What I think should be changed:
Please replace the sixth paragraph of the History section:
From:
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,[8] and on 17 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£2.15M. Simply.com Limited at the time managed 91,000 domain names and 32,000 active customers.[9]
To:
In 2005, the company acquired Simply.com for £2.15M and brought the number of domain names managed by Namesco to 170,000.[10]
Why: The first sentence and part of the second are sourced to Namesco’s own blog, which is not a reliable source. I’ve removed the information because I could not find an independent source to support it. I’ve rewritten the information about the acquisition of Simply.com to remove information that can’t be verified source 7 (“aquiring a competitor) as well as extraneous information about the other company.
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5. What I think should be changed: Please delete the seventh paragraph of the History section: In March 2005, the assets of domain and hosting business Net2 Ltd were acquired[11] followed by the acquisition of broadband business NDO Ltd in July.[12] As NDO also sold domain names, web hosting and dialup internet access, this acquisition allowed Namesco to offer its customers ADSL services. Why: The paragraph is sourced to the company’s own blog, which isn't a reliable source. I couldn’t find an independent source to verify the information. |
6. What I think should be changed:
Please replace the eighth paragraph of the History section:
From:
In July 2007, Namesco Ltd was purchased by Register.it Spa, an Italian Internet company owned by Dada, for £24.5million. Having previously acquired Spanish company Nominalia, this added a substantial UK operation to the division.[13]
To:
In July 2007, Namesco Ltd was purchased by Register.it Spa, an Italian Internet company owned by Dada, for £24.5million.[14]
Why: Replacing an unreliable source (press release) and rewriting the sentence based on what can be verified in a newly added, reliable source.
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7. What I think should be changed: Please delete the ninth paragraph of the History section: Further acquisitions followed, including Xsession.com Limited in October,[15] the assets of Serve360.com in November, and the assets of Ukdomains.com in December. Why: The source cited midway through the first sentence is a dead link. I could not locate the source. The rest of the paragraph contains no citations and I couldn’t find any to verify the information. 8. What I think should be changed: Please rewrite the eleventh paragraph of the History section: From: In 2010, Poundhost was acquired as a subsidiary of Namesco Limited,[16] 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 the US.[citation needed] To: In 2010, Nameco acquired the dedicated hosting provider Poundhost.[17] Why: Rewriting for brevity and removing speculative subjective language. 9. What I think should be changed: Please delete the last three paragraphs of the History section: In 2018 the Irish domain and web hosting brands LetsHost and Hosting Ireland joined the UK regional Namesco Group, as well as the server brand Tagadab.[citation needed] In 2019, Namesco Ltd became part of team.blue, a European group of brands enabling entrepreneurs to succeed online. As a group, they operate across 15 countries, manage over 1.9 million domains and host more than 650,000 websites.[citation needed] This is also the year LCN was acquired by Namesco Limited cementing the company as the third largest domain and hosting provider behind GoDaddy and 1&1 Ionos. This added 70, 000 customers and 350, 000 domains to the group.[citation needed] In 2024 Namesco (names.co.uk) changed its legal name to 'team.blue Internet Services UK Limited', as part of a process of pan-European team.blue harmonization.[citation needed] Why: I could not find secondary sources to confirm any of the above. |
10. What I think should be changed:
Please remove the warning template from the top of the article.
Why: The requests above have addressed all of the missing citations.
Thanks for reviewing. Brucemyboy1212 (talk) 17:45, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
- Okay, there's alot to unpack here and I need some help from other editors.
- There's 2 separate companies, Names.co Internet Services Limited and Names.co Internet PLC. Names.co Internet PLC bought out Names.co Internet Services Limited in June 26 2000 and Webcall.com (AKA Phase8) in 1 December 2000. Names.co Internet PLC changed its name and is now known as DPMETALS SERVICES (UK) LIMITED. Here's a PR statement about the acquisition of Webcall.com Limited. This whole situation is a mess. I have no clue what the fuck is going on with this company's history. - Otherwise (Talk?) 04:23, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
- I've implemented a few of the requests involving the removal of unsourced content, as the History section really should be trimmed and no major concerns popped up. The rest looks fine at a glance; they focus on the trimming of already-present content and the addition of references. I reckon more could probably be cut, too, as we think about how necessary it really is to say discuss the acquisition of X and Y. I like too put off considering cleanup banners after all other changes have been reviewed. But @Mustbeotherwise, thoughts? :) GoldRomean (talk) 20:37, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
- If you want me to be completely honest, after digging for sources for all this, I'm kind of questioning the organization's notability at this point. Almost all the sources can be easily categorized as trivial coverage (mergers, trading restriction lifted, etc.). Even this source isn't significant coverage of the company itself, but rather the owners... Maybe this review could be significant coverage but I'd have to check if it meets the criteria for WP:PRODUCTREV.
- Also I agree with not removing the banners until everything is finalized. - Otherwise (Talk?) 21:04, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
- I've implemented a few of the requests involving the removal of unsourced content, as the History section really should be trimmed and no major concerns popped up. The rest looks fine at a glance; they focus on the trimming of already-present content and the addition of references. I reckon more could probably be cut, too, as we think about how necessary it really is to say discuss the acquisition of X and Y. I like too put off considering cleanup banners after all other changes have been reviewed. But @Mustbeotherwise, thoughts? :) GoldRomean (talk) 20:37, 1 February 2026 (UTC)