by Kieren on December 20, 2006
Following some very irritating problems with 123-Reg and its parent company Pipex, which, it turns out stem from the company trying to consolidate and cut costs – I have started shifting my domains to another company.
Who’s the other company? Well, thanks to reader Andrew, it is Heart Internet. Heart Internet is set up by the same two blokes, Jonathan Brealey and Tim Beresford, that set up both WebFusion and 123-Reg and have sold both of them on.
There’s clearly an interesting story there but it looks as though Brealey and Beresford live for the entrepreneurial buzz and so have set up yet another company offering high-quality, simple, low-cost domain purchase and hosting. And my experience of the company so far has been good.
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by Kieren on December 1, 2006
Pipex is one of the UK’s biggest Internet companies and it appears to be on a determined route to self-destruction. I have already started shifted my domains and hosting deals.
I’m not a business journalist so I haven’t really bothered to follow Pipex’s business, although they do appear to be going for the bulk mainstream audience of Internet users. And the result for my perspective has been that the very best company in the UK for domains – 123-Reg, which is now owned by Pipex – has gradually been destroyed by corporate shenanigans.
I first wrote about 123-Reg’s problems two months’ ago. I got a nice call from Pipex’s PR people and was assured that everything was fine but you need only look at the continued stream of comments on the blog post to see that if anything the situation is getting worse.
But the past week has shown that the problem really does lie with Pipex the parent company.
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