diff --git a/clone.go b/clone.go
index b825234..ed9f044 100644
--- a/clone.go
+++ b/clone.go
@@ -214,3 +214,38 @@ func findGoImport(url string) (string, error) {
 
 	return newurl, nil
 }
+
+// GetNamesapce removes http://, https://, and .git suffix from the given URL if present.
+func GetNamespace(url string) string {
+	// Trim protocol prefix
+	if strings.HasPrefix(url, "http://") {
+		url = strings.TrimPrefix(url, "http://")
+	} else if strings.HasPrefix(url, "https://") {
+		url = strings.TrimPrefix(url, "https://")
+	}
+
+	// Trim trailing .git
+	url = strings.TrimSuffix(url, ".git")
+
+	return url
+}
+
+func (f *Forge) Clone(url string) (*gitpb.Repo, error) {
+	ns := GetNamespace(url)
+	if ns == url {
+		return nil, errors.New("todo: forgepb.Clone() fix url parsing")
+	}
+
+	//
+	// returns repo if namespace already exists
+	if repo := f.Repos.FindByNamespace(ns); repo != nil {
+		log.Info("FindByNamespace() worked = ", ns)
+		return repo, nil
+	}
+
+	if repo, _ := f.urlClone(ns, url); repo != nil {
+		return repo, nil
+	}
+
+	return nil, errors.New("todo: forgepb.Clone() url failed " + url)
+}
diff --git a/http.go b/http.go
index 33f50bf..fb65080 100644
--- a/http.go
+++ b/http.go
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ func (f *Forge) HttpPost(url string, data []byte) ([]byte, error) {
 	return body, nil
 }
 
-func (f *Forge) LookupPB(check *gitpb.Repos) (*gitpb.Repos, error) {
+func (f *Forge) LookupPBorig(check *gitpb.Repos) (*gitpb.Repos, error) {
 	url := forgeURL + "lookup"
 
 	for repo := range check.IterByFullPath() {
@@ -52,3 +52,23 @@ func (f *Forge) LookupPB(check *gitpb.Repos) (*gitpb.Repos, error) {
 
 	return check.SubmitReposPB(url)
 }
+
+func (f *Forge) LookupPB(check *gitpb.Repos) (*gitpb.Repos, error) {
+	url := forgeURL + "lookup"
+
+	queryPB := gitpb.NewRepos()
+
+	for repo := range check.IterByFullPath() {
+		ns := repo.Namespace
+		if ns == "" {
+			ns = repo.GoInfo.GoPath
+		}
+
+		newr := new(gitpb.Repo)
+		newr.Namespace = ns
+
+		queryPB.AppendByNamespace(newr)
+	}
+
+	return queryPB.SubmitReposPB(url)
+}
diff --git a/humanTable.go b/humanTable.go
index 7e5465e..98437dd 100644
--- a/humanTable.go
+++ b/humanTable.go
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ func (f *Forge) printRepoToTable(repo *gitpb.Repo, sizes []int, full bool) {
 	var chort string = repo.GetCurrentBranchVersion()
 	var cname string = repo.GetCurrentBranchName()
 
-	var gopath string = repo.GetGoPath()
+	var gopath string = repo.GetNamespace()
 	var rtype string = repo.GetRepoType()
 
 	// ctime := repo.Tags.GetAge(mhort)