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First edition of our quarterly index, measured July 29: SiteGround renews at up to 5.3x, the price-lock club at 1.0x, and GoDaddy, HostGator, and Namecheap mid-band at 1.7–3.7x. At every provider with a full plan range, the entry plan renews at a higher multiple than the top plan.

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.

The FY2025 filings reveal hosting's quiet pivot: marketing spend up, customer counts down, headline metrics retired, ARPU doing the growing. With AI summaries halving search click-through, the volume era of web presence is ending, and the filings say who is adapting how.

ShareShift's State of Email 2026 scanned 56.3M European domains and found three in four run an active mailbox, a powerful retention lever. But 1 in 4 mailboxes has no SPF record. Strato attaches mail to 94% of new domains and configures SPF on 6%, while IONOS, All-Inkl and OVH bundle and protect.

ShareShift's June 2026 analysis maps a structural split in the European ccTLD market: Cloudflare and Namecheap win new registration flow well above their installed base, while United Internet's 17% position masks a portfolio where 9 of 12 brands are not growing net.

A dataset allegedly from Home.pl, Poland's largest hosting provider, is being advertised on a cybercrime forum. We analyze the schema and what it means for 300,000+ customers.

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.

IONOS posted its highest EBITDA margin since going public (36.8%), doubled its net customer additions, and guided for 37-38% margins in 2026. CEO Achim Weiss said on the earnings call that AI will account for 50% of incremental revenue in 2026, rising to 80% by 2028. The stock trades around €24-25 against analyst consensus of roughly €35. The article examines what is actually in the AI stack, what the 3,300 Momentum orders mean for the hosting industry, and the December 2026 debt maturity that analysts are watching.

TL;DR - Many companies focus their growth narratives around cloud, platforms, or AI layers on top. Against that, IONOS stands out, mainly because it never tried to reinvent shared hosting. Instead, IONOS

IONOS Group SE, headquartered in Germany, boasts a rich history dating back to its establishment in 1988. Initially known as 1&1, the company quickly expanded its operations to become one of the