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Secretive Investment Company Ethos Capital Now Owns Donuts

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Keeping track of the merger and acquisitions over the last while is proving to be headache inducing. A lot of the players have switched around and the number of transactions does not show any sign of slowing down. The latest announcement is that Ethos Capital, the rather secretive investment company, is now the majority shareholder of Donuts. Ethos had previously tried to … [Read more...] about Secretive Investment Company Ethos Capital Now Owns Donuts

Donuts’ Afilias Deal Closes

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Back in November many were surprised by the news that Donuts was acquiring Afilias. While mergers and acquisitions happen all the time, this deal was big news and to many observers probably a little surprising. Yesterday the deal closed. The "change of control" had been on the agenda of a recent ICANN Board meeting, but nothing of any substance came out of that. … [Read more...] about Donuts’ Afilias Deal Closes

Donuts to Buy Afilias

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There's been a lot of mergers and acquisitions in the domain name space over the last few years. However Donuts acquiring Afilias is more than just "big" news. I'd have to sit down and work it out in more , but I think with this merger Donuts becomes the single biggest registry operator in terms of TLDs. Centralnic is probably the diversity king, as they seem to have … [Read more...] about Donuts to Buy Afilias

Clearlake to Acquire Endurance

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Endurance International Group Holdings Inc. has announced that it is to be acquired by Clearlake Capital Group L.P. in a deal valued in excess of $3 billion. Endurance (EIG) isn't really a household name, even for people working in the internet space. They're better known by the brands in the group which include companies like: Domain.comHostGatorBluehostConstant Contact … [Read more...] about Clearlake to Acquire Endurance

One.com Acquires GratisDNS / Larsen Data

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It looks like the merger and acquisition activity in the hosting and domain market isn't slowing down. Multiple European and international hosting and domain name groups have been quietly, and not so quietly, expanding via acquisitions in the last few months. While announcements of mergers and acquisitions in the middle of a global pandemic might sound a little strange you need … [Read more...] about One.com Acquires GratisDNS / Larsen Data

Radix Buys Uno

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Radix registry has acquired the .uno TLD. Since its initial launch .uno has been using Neustar's backend, while Radix uses Centralnic. While a backend switch hasn't been announced yet it would be logical for Radix to keep all its domain extension on the one backend provider. The .uno tld currently has just over 16 thousand names with the bulk of them via a single registrar … [Read more...] about Radix Buys Uno

Donuts Acquires Legacy .Travel Domain Registry

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Andrew and Kevin both covered the acquisition of the .travel TLD by Donuts, which was announced earlier today. What will Donuts do with it? I suspect they'll try to make it as easy to register a .travel domain name as possible, though they might like to keep some level of "certification". What that'll look like is hard to say and what they'll be able to get out of either … [Read more...] about Donuts Acquires Legacy .Travel Domain Registry