ooh - an opportunity to maybe get a decent control panel for domain management... maybe it's good we haven't yet managed to get all domains outta there.

This in this evening from Namesco:

Dear Customer,

We are pleased to announce that today, Wednesday 28th May, Namesco Ireland Limited which is a subsidiary of Namesco Limited in the UK announced the acquisition of Register365. The sale was part of a strategic decision taken by Hosting365 to sell its shared hosting and domain registration division in order to focus on the Managed Hosting element of its business.

Namesco Ltd would like to take this opportunity to welcome you today and inform you of some improvements to your services.
Our aim is to assure you that your services will not be affected by the sale. We will continue to deliver your services in Ireland whilst providing improved Customer Care and Technical Support from our office here in the UK.

We have an enviable reputation in the United Kingdom for providing a wide range of quality Internet Service products backed up by expert in-house Customer Care and Technical Support. We understand the importance of our relationship with you and so as a gesture of this commitment we have today replaced the Premium Rate support numbers with local call numbers. We aim to make it easy for you to contact us, you are now able to use the new local rate number, e-mail or live chat with an advisor online.

Your new local rate number is 1890-944-500
To ensure we are able to assist you professionally our Technical Support teams have also undergone an extensive training program prior to this acquisition.

Namesco Ltd are regarded as one of the leading ISP's in the UK with 12 years experience. We are the fourth largest provider in the UK of Domain Names and Shared Web Hosting Services and among the top 50 worldwide (source: Netcraft Company Analysis, January 2007). We were recently named as the best Shared Hosting Provider of 2008 at the annual Internet Service Provider Association (ISPA) Awards.

A list of some of our awards and accolades can be found here
Should you have any further questions, we will be happy to answer them. Simply email customercare@register365.com or call your new local rate support number 1890-944-500

Once again we would like to welcome you to Namesco Ltd

Followed an hour and a half later by:

Dear Customer,
As of this morning, the 28th of May 2008, Hosting365 have sold it's shared hosting and domain name division to NamesCo Ireland Limited. Full text of the press release is below. We will be contacting all our customers in due course with a strategic update on Hosting365 and our exciting plans for the future.

We have sold the Register365 division in order to allow us focus exclusively on the Managed Services sector. All Hosting365 customers remain with Hosting365 and this announcement does not impact your service in any way. Please feel free to contact us for more information or to discuss any queries - at sales@hosting365.com or on 01-4673650.

I'm not sure if I got this as a customer of H365 or R365 - as I'm now a customer of both. They might be contacting all their previous customers to let them know about the exciting plans, or it might be a nice goodbye from Stephen and his team. hmmm...?

Sarah