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Group NBT plc started life as NetBenefit plc in 1995 to provide services to users of the Internet, registering and renewing domain names and providing hosting for websites. As part of the Company’s focus on the corporate market, NetNames was acquired in 1999. NetNames had concentrated on helping companies to manage their growing portfolios of domain names and had a growing customer base in Europe and the US.

Following the acquisition of Easily.co.uk in 2004 NetBenefit became Group NBT. The name was changed to reflect the growing business operations through the three trading brands at the time - NetNames, NetBenefit and Easily.co.uk. Group NBT has continued to grow both organically and through acquisition to become one of the leading providers of services to users of the Internet. ....

Group NBT is listed on AIM, the Alternate Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.

 
 
NetNames has become one of the main global providers of domain name management services. Speednames Business, which was acquired as part of Ascio, provides similar services to the NetNames Platinum Service. The addition of this customer base makes NetNames the leading provider of domain name management services in Europe. Domain names are a key part of a company’s intellectual property - larger companies will often register and maintain many thousands of domain names in over two hundred registries around the world. NetNames clients come from many industries and include well-known companies such as British Airways, The New Statesman and Centrica.

NetBenefit provides managed hosting services to companies in Europe. As the Internet grows, the requirement for resilient websites increases, many medium size companies outsource their web hosting requirements to NetBenefit to take advantage of the expertise and technical facilities which are needed to maintain increasingly complex installations.

Easily.co.uk is the brand which provides services for small business and consumers. Easily operates primarily in the UK.  Speednames.com, which offers similar services, has brought a European dimension to this area of the Group’s business. Typical customers will take a package of services including a domain name, an email service and web hosting.

Ascio has over 300 partnerships with telecom operators, web hosting companies, internet access providers and IP law firms throughout Europe. Partners act as resellers of domain names using Ascio’s technology to provide these services. Ascio has led the way in automating the registration and renewal of domain names making it one of the most advanced providers of such services.

Envisional was acquired by Group NBT in July 2007. Many of the Group’s customers are facing increased risk from fraudulent activity taking place on the Internet from the sale of counterfeit goods, piracy of digital assets to bank account and credit card theft. Envisional’s services use artificial intelligence to monitor the Internet for instances of any such activity affecting individual brands. This enables customers to reduce financial losses and to protect the value of their brands.



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Group NBT plc share price
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Date 06 January 09
 
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