Namesco Backs Internet Watch Foundation

Oct. 13, 2009 - PRLog -- Namesco (http://www.names.co.uk) the UK’s fourth largest Internet Services provider continues to support The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), championing services that are fighting to eliminate the use of illegal content on the web.

Founded by the Internet Industry in 1996, the IWF works in partnership with the Police, the Government, the wider online industry and the public to combat the availability of potentially illegal online content.

As members of charitable organsiation IWF, Namesco is committed to supporting their work and government authorized initiatives to combat criminally obscene content on the internet.
One of those initiatives is to help hosting companies and internet service providers like Namesco to combat abuse of their networks through their national ‘notice and take-down’ service.  This service alerts ISP and Hosting providers to potentially illegal content within their remit and provides unique data to law enforcement partners in the UK and abroad to assist investigations into the distributers of potentially illegal online content.

According to IWF, as a result of this partnership approach, less than 1% of child sexual abuse content known to them has apparently been hosted in the UK since 2003, down from 18% in 1997.  

Namesco is committed to supporting the work of the IWF, supporting the aims and objectives put together by the organization.

“As members of the Industry we feel that it is our responsibility to support the protection against this type of activity and actively make a real difference in today’s society where such issues can be of primary concern to many of our customers. These concerns are prominent within the hosting industry, supporting such causes and our customers needs is a key commitment for us” Namesco

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Namesco (http://www.names.co.uk) is the 4th largest domain name and hosting provider within the UK domain sector and ranked within the top 50 largest hosting providers in the World.

As a subsidiary company of Dada - listed on the Italian stock market MTA segment STAR (DA.MI) –
Namesco is part of the Business Unit DadaPro, which offers companies professional services for online presence and advertising.

DadaPro boasts over 1,000,000 registered domains with more than 260 extensions, 22,000 new registrations per month, 500,000 premium e-mail accounts and 300,000 websites hosted on the Hosting platform.

For Immediate Release

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Namesco is a leading Internet Services Provider in the UK, specialising in domain name registration, online brand protection, website hosting, email and broadband. With customer support 7 days a week, Namesco operate in consumer and business markets.