The story
Founded in 1997 by Alastair Crawford, 192.com Limited evolved from a CD-ROM product called UK Info Disk, the best selling non-game CD-ROM product of its time. 192.com publishes the Edited Electoral Roll in electronic media; previously the roll had been available for consultation only in public libraries and town halls. The company offered an alternative to British Telecom's previous monopoly of telephone directory enquiries. There were a number of lawsuits related to this online challenge.
During the dotcom bubble in 2001 icd publishing was valued at £100 million.
In February 2011 icd publishing Ltd split in half; the two units were named 192.com Ltd and 192business Ltd. On 1 March 2012, half of the company 192business Ltd was sold to Experian Plc for an undisclosed sum, though the gross value of the assets was £9 million.
From Wikipedia’s article on 192.com, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3