Category: Mergers and acquisitions

M&A

After More Than 60 Acquisitions, Your.Online Backs a Trust Services Company Built From Scratch

by Natalia Nowak · 20 Oct 2026 · 3 min read

After more than 60 acquisitions, Your.Online is backing a trust business built from scratch: Invicta Trust Services, led by Patrick Beckman Lapré.

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Hosting M&A in Q3 2026: The Roll-Ups Kept Buying. Two Big Disposals Ran Past Their Timelines.

by Natalia Nowak · 15 Oct 2026 · 6 min read

Q3 2026 in hosting M&A: the roll-ups kept buying, Sedo and Team Internet's domains unit ran past their sale timelines, and GoDaddy drew an unconfirmed approach.

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Nextcloud Takes Its First Outside Investor. Armira Growth Joins as a Minority Shareholder.

by Natalia Nowak · 14 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

Nextcloud has taken on Armira Growth as a minority shareholder, its first outside investor in ten years. The founders keep the majority.

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HostPapa Bought Ingram Micro’s CloudBlue. A Year Later the Group Is Called Managed.com.

by Natalia Nowak · 25 Sep 2026 · 6 min read

Managed.com launched on September 17 above HostPapa, ColoCrossing, Hostopia, CloudBlue and LogoMaker, a group built on more than twenty acquisitions.

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Norton’s Owner Has Approached GoDaddy. The Market Marked the Target Up 8.7 Percent and the Bidder Down 6.1.

by Łukasz Nowak · 24 Sep 2026 · 10 min read

The Financial Times reports that Gen Digital, owner of Norton and Avast, has approached GoDaddy. The target rose 8.7 percent, the bidder fell 6.1.

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Before the Press Release: What We See in Hosting M&A

by Natalia Nowak · 16 Sep 2026 · 5 min read

Many owners asking what their hosting business is worth have not decided to sell. The busier part of the market comes before any deal is announced.

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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.