Mergers and acquisitions — Web Hosting News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

HostAfrica has acquired the hosting division of South African provider EvoWeb, the latest in a series of deals across Africa since 2016. EvoWeb retains its web design and WordPress development practice.

HostPapa acquired Hostwinds on April 29, adding self-owned data centers in Seattle and Amsterdam and a developer and reseller customer base to its portfolio, twelve days after acquiring Tailor Made Servers in Dallas.

South African ISP Axxess acquired Absolute Hosting as part of a deliberate 2026 strategy to grow hosting revenues, with founder Jade Benson remaining managing director and the company continuing to operate independently under its own brand.

Your.Cloud's acquisition of Cloud Geeni is the Dutch MSP consolidator's fourth UK deal, adding an ISO 27001-certified managed service provider with a 16-year proprietary private cloud platform and a customer base spanning legal, manufacturing, and financial services. Cloud Geeni retains its brand, team, and management under Your.Cloud's decentralized model, which has become the group's primary tool for attracting owner-operated MSPs across Europe.

HostPapa acquired Tailor Made Servers, a Dallas dedicated server provider operating since 2003, adding its customer base to the ColoCrossing brand as part of an acquisition run that has included more than 17 deals since 2020.

The Sedo sale process asks a buyer to separate two assets bundled under one roof: a durable domain aftermarket platform with 650-plus registrar partners worldwide, and a parking and monetization operation that lost its primary revenue source when Google removed parked domains from its Search Partner Network in February 2026. How a buyer values those two things, and what their priorities imply for the SedoMLS partner network, is the question registrars and hosting companies with domain aftermarket exposure are now watching.

PDG's latest acquisition of 210 MW across Mumbai and Hyderabad nearly doubles its planned India capacity and brings its total commitment to $2.5 billion since 2022. The business case rests on hyperscaler demand absorbing 1 GW of AI-ready wholesale capacity, and the hosting companies positioned for that outcome are the ones already in managed cloud and migration services, not shared hosting.

European digital services group team.blue has announced the acquisition of the Czech B2B sales platform Saleskit. The company shared the news in a post published on its official LinkedIn profile.

PlanetHoster has acquired Digital Forest, a French hosting provider founded in 2020 and focused on eco-responsible infrastructure. The transaction was announced on February 11, 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed. As part