123-Reg and NamesCo decided to register millions of .uk domains for customers without asking

It wasn’t just 123-Reg either, another big registrar, NamesCo was doing the exact same thing: sending invoices to customers for names they had never requested.

These are just some of the thousands of UK domain holders who will soon be charged tens of millions of pounds for domain names they never ordered and in many cases do not want.

Nominet pushed for the creation of new .uk domains over two years ago, despite strong objections from the internet community. It stands to make tens of millions of pounds a year from the scheme.