123 Reg was founded in Britain in 2000 by Jonathan and Tim Beresford-Brealey, In 2003, 123 Reg and Webfusion were acquired by Host Europe Group (HEG). In 2004, Host Europe Group was bought by
Pipex Communications for £31.2m and 123 Reg became the UK's largest domain registrar, according to the company's parent. In 2009, Host Europe Group organised its UK operations under the Webfusion Ltd group but kept both brands. The same year, Webfusion became the first UK web host to offer
Windows Server 2008 web hosting, Also in 2009, 123 Reg became the first UK domain registrar to have 2 million domain names on register. In 2012, it became the first UK domain registrar to have 3 million domain names on register. The event deleted hundreds of websites, with users losing sites and access to data on their VPS service. By 24 April, 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. In April 2017, American hosting company
GoDaddy acquired 123 Reg's parent company, HEG, for 1.69 billion euros ($1.82 billion). ==References==