What’s Next for Tucows After Ting? Five Strategic Paths Forward

Tucows just put up a better year on paper $390.3m revenue and $50.6m Adjusted EBITDA in FY2025 - while still posting a $75.8m net loss. The gap is mostly financing weight and depreciation from Ting-era infrastructure: $55.3m net interest expense in FY2025 alone. Management’s answer is blunt: sell Ting, then run a simpler, more capital‑light Tucows.

Why Hosting Companies Are Expanding into SaaS, E-commerce, and Ecosystems

For years, the value proposition was simple: rent space on the internet, keep it online, keep it fast, keep it safe. And that still matters - immensely. But it’s no longer where most of the value is captured. In 2026, the most ambitious hosting companies are no longer competing primarily on CPUs, storage, or even performance benchmarks.

Shellrent joins Your.Online — third acquisition in 2026

Your.Online has completed another acquisition with the addition of Shellrent, an Italian provider of domains, hosting, cloud VPS, and server solutions. The deal was signed...

DigitalOcean enters into a partnership with Character.ai

For years, DigitalOcean occupied a very clear place in the technology landscape. It was the cloud you chose when you wanted simplicity, speed, and clarity....

11:11 Systems Acquires Ntirety

The acquisition of Ntirety by 11:11 Systems, announced in January 2026, is not an isolated transaction. It is another clear indication that the VMware services market is entering a phase of accelerated consolidation following structural changes introduced after Broadcom acquired VMware.

Season 3 of the webhosting.today podcast is starting very soon. And a lot is changing

New year, fresh energy and… a brand-new season of the webhosting.today podcast. Season 3 kicks off next week, and it’s safe to say this is...

Com Laude + Markmonitor: A Quiet Deal

At first glance, the acquisition of Markmonitor by Com Laude looks like another solid but unremarkable consolidation in the domain space. Look closer, though, and...

Critical Grafana Enterprise SCIM Flaw Hits Hosting Providers: Why Staying Updated Matters

Grafana has released a set of emergency security patches after discovering a critical vulnerability in its Enterprise editions. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-41115, carries the maximum CVSS score of 10.0 and affects environments where the SCIM feature is enabled and used for automated user provisioning.

CentralNic Reseller Announces Auth-Code Rotation After Suspicious Activity

A recent message from CentralNic Reseller addressed to its customers reveals that the company has observed “activity outside our operational systems that we are investigating” and is taking precautionary measures. The announcement states that while there is no confirmed impact on operational systems or customer data.

group.one moves deeper into CEE with acquisition of Estonia’s Veebimajutus.ee

group.one is expanding its foothold in Central and Eastern Europe with a new deal to acquire Elkdata OÜ, the company behind Estonia’s well-known hosting brand Veebimajutus.ee. The agreement strengthens group.one’s position in one of Europe’s most digitally mature markets and follows the company’s earlier move into the region through the acquisition