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M&A
Hosting M&A in Q3 2026: The Roll-Ups Kept Buying. Two Big Disposals Ran Past Their Timelines.
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.
Software reviews
GoDaddy Rebuilt Its Domain Appraisal With an LLM. The Cap Rose to $1 Million.
GoDaddy rebuilt its GoValue domain appraisal around an LLM and raised the cap from $25,000 to $1 million.
Other
Identity Digital Takes .us From GoDaddy. The Registry Is Down 24 Percent in a Year.
NTIA handed .us to Identity Digital on October 1. The registry fell 24 percent in a year to 1.86 million names, though July new registrations were up.
M&A
Norton’s Owner Has Approached GoDaddy. The Market Marked the Target Up 8.7 Percent and the Bidder Down 6.1.
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.
Industry reports
We Ranked Hosting Two Ways. We Resolved 108 GoDaddy Domains: 96 Point at Amazon.
Our hosting count records whose address space a site is served from. We sampled GoDaddy's domains and most of them resolve into Amazon's.
M&A
DigitalOcean’s Market Cap Is Now Higher Than GoDaddy’s. What Five Public Multiples Say About Hosting Valuations.
Five public hosting, cloud and domain companies trade between 8x and 40x EBITDA. The spread shows what buyers pay for: growth, cash conversion, stickiness.
Stock reports
GoDaddy Is Sued Over the .com Promotion That Worked Too Well
GoDaddy's discounted one-year .com pulled its domain count back into growth and cut quarterly bookings growth from 9.1% to 5%. Investors have now sued.
Industry reports
GoDaddy Launches Node.js Hosting, and Publishes the Rules Apps Must Follow
GoDaddy added Node.js hosting to its Web Hosting plans, and published a deploy contract stating what an app must do to run.
M&A
GoDaddy Averages 24 Million Domains Per Brand. team.blue Averages 163,000.
GoDaddy averages 24 million domains per brand. team.blue averages 163,000. Two opposite ways to consolidate a hosting market, measured.
Industry reports
Montenegro Is Taking .me Back: A State Company Will Run the Million-Domain ccTLD
Montenegro is nationalizing .me: a state company will take over the million-domain ccTLD now run by GoDaddy and Identity Digital.
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