Founded in March 1998, by webmasters who sought to create a perfect web hosting environment for fellow webmasters of all types, Nexus answered the needs of many Internet users for a reliable source of free services. At that time, Nexus offered e-mail forwarding, mail accounts and e-mail list management. In 1999, Nexus upgraded it service offerings and began offering virtual domain and sub-domain hosting, along domain name services and thus became a commercial webhosting company.

Nexus Technologies (nexus.pk) was founded in 1998 in Pakistan.