NDO

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NDO Limited
Type of Company	Private
Founded	(1995) (as NetDirect Internet Ltd)
Headquarters	Woodford, Essex, UK
Key people	Steve Wainwright, Managing Director Sam Hill, Development Director Mark Tayor, Technical Director
Industry	Internet
Products	Internet Services
Revenue	not disclosed
Employees	40 (Jun 2005)
Slogan	None known
Website	http://www.ndo.com

NDO Limited is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the United Kingdom. Originally established in 1995, originating from NetDirect and was one of the first ISP's in the UK.

1 History
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[edit] History

Originally founded as NetDirect Internet Ltd in November 1995 by Chris Anderson from a back bedroom in New Cross, London early expansion saw the business move to Greenwich, London. In February 1999 74% of NetDirect was purchased by Distefora Holding A.G and it became one of the First Internet Service Providers to be acquired as UK ISP market consolidation began.

NetDirect subsequently became the UK division of ISION AG. When ISION was formed from Distefora's acquired Internet businesses including IS Internet Services AG in Germany. At the time of floating in March 2000, ISION Internet became the largest e-business group to list on the Neuer market, with a valuation of $1 billion. Chris continued as managing director until September2000. At its height ISION Internet employ more than 800 people throughout Europe, with over 100 based in the UK offices in Docklands, London.

ISION grew to have over 30,000 businesses and hosting thousands of complex websites in data centers across Europe. The business was then sold to energis in December 2000 for $719million, however July 2002 saw energis go into Administration.

ISION was then taken over from the energis administration receivers in November 2002 by Steve Wainwright the former Finance Director of Ision AG, Sam Hill and Mark Taylor; the company was renamed to NDO. NDO then subsequently expanded to offer ADSL broadband solutions, with the emphasis on customer service and not necessarily cheap and cheerful.

In June 2005, NDO was sold again (for the fifth time) to the Namesco Group for just £1.3M UKP at which time it had just 4500 ADSL Signups, 8000 Hosted Accounts, and approximately 4000 domains under management.