Host Europe Group has been on the market for the last few months. The company, which is currently owned by private equity firm Cinven, was courting suitors with an expected price close to €2 billion. Over the last few weeks, however, it became apparent that the only serious suitor was GoDaddy. This morning GoDaddy confirmed… Continue reading GoDaddy to Acquire Host Europe Group in €1.69 Billion Deal
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#HostingCon $500 Amazon Gift Cert Giveaway
HostingCon is being held in San Diego, California this July from July 27th to 29th. In the runup to the event the organisers will be pushing out quite a bit of PR .. And today they announced a USD$500 Amazon gift certificate giveaway. You can enter up to twice per day simply by tweeting Full… Continue reading #HostingCon $500 Amazon Gift Cert Giveaway
Eurid Goes Offline For Upgrade
Image via Wikipedia Eurid is expanding its technical infrastructure this weekend. According to notifications sent to Eurid registrars they are expanding into a new data centre space. Unfortunately the knock-on effect is that the registry backend will not be available to registrars for up to six hours on Saturday.