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Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
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The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
We Ranked Hosting Two Ways. We Resolved 108 GoDaddy Domains: 96 Point at Amazon.
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Ranked by domains on their nameservers, GoDaddy leads with 73.1 million. Ranked by hosting attribution it falls to 3.5 million, but that column records whose address space a site is served from. We resolved a sample of GoDaddy's domains: 89% land in blocks registered to Amazon.
IONOS Is Cutting 12% of Its Workforce Five Weeks After Raising Its Revenue Outlook.
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IONOS will reduce headcount from about 3,800 to about 3,350, spending around EUR 35 million once to save up to EUR 30 million a year from 2027. IONOS says the savings will be reinvested, including in AI product development and cloud, and its 2026 adjusted EBITDA forecast is unchanged.
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HostPapa Bought Ingram Micro’s CloudBlue. A Year Later the Group Is Called Managed.com.
A new name sits above HostPapa. Managed.com launched on September 17 covering five brands and more than twenty acquisitions since 2013, a year after it arranged a USD 130 million facility led by Bank of Montreal and bought CloudBlue from Ingram Micro.
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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.
Gen Digital, the owner of Norton and Avast, has made a takeover approach to GoDaddy, the Financial Times reported on September 24. Talks are early and terms undisclosed. The target rose 8.7 percent to $13.2 billion and the bidder fell 6.1 percent to $14.7 billion, leaving them close in value.
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Before the Press Release: What We See in Hosting M&A
Many owners who ask what their hosting business is worth have not decided to sell. Beyond the thirty deals announced in the first half of 2026 sit owners testing valuations, buyers with precise criteria, and conversations that run for months before anything becomes public.
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What Is Your Hosting Business Worth? The Smallest Deals Are Back at 2.0x.
A hosting owner reading the private-market data finds a ladder from a median of 2.0 times earnings at the bottom to 5.8 at the top. The lower rungs are quoted on the owner's total benefit and the upper ones on EBITDA, and the bottom is exactly where it stood 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.
Team Internet's sale of its Domains, Identity and Software division is at an advanced stage with multiple parties interested in all or parts of it, the company said on September 7, holding its floor of over $160 million while the outcome it guided for in early Q3 has yet to arrive.
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cyber_Folks Has Over PLN 1 Billion of M&A Capacity. Hosting Is Not the Priority
cyber_Folks puts its capacity for further acquisitions above PLN 1 billion and says the activity will be concentrated in e-commerce. Its hosting arm earns a 51 percent adjusted margin and a quarter of group earnings, while the segment being bought into reported an operating loss.
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DigitalOcean’s Market Cap Is Now Higher Than GoDaddy’s. What Five Public Multiples Say About Hosting Valuations.
GoDaddy is worth less than DigitalOcean on five times the revenue, and OVHcloud's record margin earns the lowest multiple of all. Our arithmetic on five public companies shows what actually moves a hosting valuation, and the logic transfers to private deals.
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GoDaddy Averages 24 Million Domains Per Brand. team.blue Averages 163,000.
Consolidation is not one strategy. Some groups buy scale and run three brands, others buy presence and run forty-one, and the gap between them is about 150 to 1. Meanwhile six in ten tracked domains still sit outside every group we track.
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Estonia’s Zone Joins Your.Online, a Roll-Up Now More Than 60 Deals Deep
Your.Online has added Estonia's Zone to a portfolio of 35 brands built through more than 60 acquisitions. The pattern in that list matters: the group already owns Gandi, Blacknight, Heart Internet and o2switch, and is now buying the operators each country names first.
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Infomaniak Goes Public Without Losing Control
The Swiss host is listing on the SIX Swiss Exchange by reversing into Perrot Duval, a company listed since 1905, to fund sovereign-cloud data centres. The twist: its foundation keeps majority voting rights, so Infomaniak reaches the market while writing permanent independence into its structure.
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Thirty Deals in Six Months: The H1 2026 Hosting Consolidation Map, and the Two Clocks Driving What Sells Next
H1 2026 produced a US$1B Polish hosting-commerce merger, a $450M registrar champion, serial buyers closing two deals apiece within a fortnight, and a $40B data-centre record, while Google's AdSense shutdown forced Sedo and Team Internet to market. The map, the multiples, and the debt walls pushed to 2028-2029.
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Green Olive Tree Acquires ZebraHost for $1.1 Million, Nearly Doubling in Size
Green Olive Tree, a veteran-owned managed host, has acquired ZebraHost LLC for $1.1 million, closing June 22 and nearly doubling its revenue. Struck as ZebraHost's 76-year-old founder retires, it shows the founder-succession M&A quietly consolidating hosting's small end.
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The Balance Sheet Behind Your Renewal Invoice: Who Owns the Hosting Industry, and What It Owes
Your renewal invoice has a balance sheet behind it. We mapped hosting's private-equity owners, their debt, and the 2028 maturity wall against our own Renewal Multiplier Index: the most leveraged operator restructured in December, the tooling layer is reportedly funding sponsor dividends, and the debt-free cohort is quietly taking the customers.
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Automattic Has Taken Over WebHosting.com. The Plan Is Still a Coming-Soon Page.
WebHosting.com, a premium one-word .com long dormant under AT&T, now resolves to an Automattic-branded "coming soon" page, confirming the WordPress parent controls it. There is no announcement, price, or stated plan. The move fits Automattic's broader hosting push, but its plans are unconfirmed.
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Google’s TPUs Get a Blackstone-Funded Cloud of Their Own
Google and Blackstone are standing up a separate US company, majority-owned by Blackstone, to build data centers and sell Google's TPU chips as merchant compute beyond Google Cloud. Blackstone is committing $5 billion in equity toward 500 MW by 2027, and late-June hires for a COO and CTO show the venture being built from the ground up at pace.
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Ireland’s Largest Independent Host Joins a Fast-Growing European Roll-Up
Blacknight, the Carlow-based host founded in 2003 by Michele Neylon and Paul Kelly, has joined Your.Online. The companies say nothing changes day to day: same brand, same leadership, same Irish data centers, just access to a larger group's capital and resources.
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CyberFolks and Shoper Agree to Merge Into a Single Listed Entity Valued at €1 Billion
CyberFolks will absorb Shoper through a share exchange at 0.2281 CyberFolks shares per Shoper share, forming a single Warsaw-listed entity valued at €1 billion. The merged group holds Shoper, PrestaShop, MailerLite, and Sylius, covering most of the e-commerce stack across Europe.
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OpusDNS Acquires fruits.co, Adding Domain Monetization to Its Wholesale Registrar Platform
OpusDNS acquired fruits.co, combining wholesale domain registration with EU-VAT-compliant aftermarket sales. Built by Hexonet and InterNetX veterans, OpusDNS positions against legacy registrar infrastructure with a 12-month integration roadmap that will test the consolidation thesis.
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your.online Acquires Sansec, Adding E-Commerce Security to a 60-Acquisition Group
your.online has acquired Sansec, a Magento and WooCommerce security company, marking the Dutch hosting group's first move into specialist e-commerce security tooling.
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HOSTAFRICA Acquires Zanode, Its Second South African Deal in Nine Days
HOSTAFRICA announced the acquisition of Zanode on May 14, 2026, nine days after acquiring Evoweb's hosting division, adding a South African git-driven deployment platform to its African hosting portfolio.