Who really owns your host?
A dozen hosting brands you think of as separate often share one owner. This is directory research on which web hosts belong to which parent company, so you can tell when a comparison is really between siblings. HRI scores each brand independently, whoever owns it.
Newfold Digital (formerly Endurance International) owns a large family of shared-hosting brands, several of them once independent budget hosts.
GoDaddy has grown by acquisition, folding in managed-WordPress, reseller, and European hosting brands alongside its own registrar business.
IONOS and its United Internet parent own a set of European hosting and infrastructure brands across Germany, Spain, the UK, and Austria.
Liquid Web focuses on managed hosting for agencies and businesses, and owns the managed-WooCommerce and WordPress brand Nexcess.
Hostinger runs low-cost shared and cloud hosting worldwide, and owns the Indonesia-focused brand Niagahoster.
DigitalOcean is a developer-focused cloud provider that acquired the managed-hosting platform Cloudways to move up into managed hosting.
World Host Group, rebranding its flagship around hosting.com, has bought more than 25 hosting brands worldwide, from A2 Hosting in the US to HostingRaja in India.
team.blue, formed by the merger of Combell, TransIP and Register Group, runs dozens of European hosting and domain brands from the Netherlands to Turkey.
group.one combines one.com with the German dogado group under Cinven and Ontario Teachers ownership, spanning Nordic, German, Swiss and Dutch hosting brands.
Miss Group grew from Swedish shared host Miss Hosting into an international group of more than 30 brands across the Nordics, Spain, Czechia and North America.
Namespace Group owns registrar and reseller-hosting brands, including the European domain specialist EuroDNS and the platform Openprovider.
Every family on this page began as a deal. HostList documents the transactions behind them and runs a confidential M&A desk for hosting founders weighing an exit and operators buying recurring revenue.