You might be suprised (or perhaps not!) that once upon a time, two of the larger hosting providers gradualy began acquiring many of the smaller ones. As the brands are kept separate, it’s quite likely that many people have no idea who the real owners are!
GoDaddy and Endurance International Group (EIG) in fact own quite a few of the well-known hosting providers. Let’s take a look at a small sample of them…
Hosting providers owned by GoDaddy
- 123 Reg
- TSO Host
- Heart Internet
- (mt)
- and 20+ others…
Hosting providers owned by Endurance International Group (EIG)
- HostGator
- Bluehost
- iPage
- Site5
- IX Web Hosting
- and 70+ others…
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