Category: Mergers and acquisitions

82 articles

M&A
What Is Your Hosting Business Worth? The Smallest Deals Are Back at 2.0x.
by Natalia Nowak · 9 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
Median private-deal multiples run from 2.0 to 5.8, split across two different earnings measures, and the smallest band is back where it was in 2023.
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Team Internet Still Wants Over $160 Million for Its Domains Business. The Timeline It Set in June Has Passed.
by Natalia Nowak · 8 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
Team Internet still expects over $160 million for its domains division and targets completion around year end, after guiding in June to an early-Q3 outcome.
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cyber_Folks Has Over PLN 1 Billion of M&A Capacity. Hosting Is Not the Priority
by Natalia Nowak · 7 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
cyber_Folks puts its M&A capacity above PLN 1 billion and says it will be concentrated in e-commerce. Its hosting arm earns a 51 percent adjusted margin.
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DigitalOcean’s Market Cap Is Now Higher Than GoDaddy’s. What Five Public Multiples Say About Hosting Valuations.
by Natalia Nowak · 1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
Five public hosting, cloud and domain companies trade between 8x and 40x EBITDA. The spread shows what buyers pay for: growth, cash conversion, stickiness.
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GoDaddy Averages 24 Million Domains Per Brand. team.blue Averages 163,000.
by Natalia Nowak · 11 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
GoDaddy averages 24 million domains per brand. team.blue averages 163,000. Two opposite ways to consolidate a hosting market, measured.
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Estonia’s Zone Joins Your.Online, a Roll-Up Now More Than 60 Deals Deep
by Natalia Nowak · 3 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
Zone, an Estonian host since 1999 with more than 60,000 customers, joins Your.Online, a group that has bought more than 60 companies since 2017.
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Infomaniak Goes Public Without Losing Control
by Natalia Nowak · 30 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Infomaniak is going public on the SIX Swiss Exchange through a reverse takeover, structured so its foundation keeps control of the company.
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Thirty Deals in Six Months: The H1 2026 Hosting Consolidation Map, and the Two Clocks Driving What Sells Next
by Natalia Nowak · 28 Jul 2026 · 13 min read
Thirty deals in six months: the full H1 2026 hosting M&A map, the multiples behind it, and the debt clocks that decide who transacts in H2.
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Green Olive Tree Acquires ZebraHost for $1.1 Million, Nearly Doubling in Size
by Natalia Nowak · 15 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Green Olive Tree acquired ZebraHost for $1.1 million, nearly doubling its revenue, in a founder-retirement deal that shows how small-host consolidation works.
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The Balance Sheet Behind Your Renewal Invoice: Who Owns the Hosting Industry, and What It Owes
by Natalia Nowak · 13 Jul 2026 · 14 min read
We mapped the hosting industry's owners and debt against our renewal-price index: the operators machines cannot price are the ones with liens on the renewal premium.
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