Tag Archives: acquisitions

Tue 8th December 2015
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CentralNic acquires Instra for $24 million, sells $3.6M in domains, and skeleton to lift $15M - CentralNic buys another domain name registrar. CentralNic is buying Instra for USD $24M.Publicly traded domain name registrar and registry CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC) has agreed to acquire domain name registrar Instra Group for AU $33 million (USD $24 million), the company announced today. The purchase price includes AU $30 million in cash and AU $3 million in stock, with AU $5 million held in escrow and paid out over the next five years. To fund the acquisition, CentralNic plans to issue 25 million ... read more ...
Tue 4th November 2014
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Endurance continues to hurl up, acquires BuyDomains - NameMedia sells off domain name portfolio. Publicly traded Endurance International Group continued its roll up of the webhosting and domain name business last quarter with the acquisition of BuyDomains, the company announced today. In his prepared statements for its quarterly earnings call, Endurance CEO Hari Ravichandran said: Second, we closed the acquisition of BuyDomains, a Waltham, MA based provider of premium domain products and services, in the second half ... read more ...
Tue 20th August 2013
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Partnership leads to merger by GoDaddy - After integrating Locu into web site building product, GoDaddy buys the whole company. I took yesterday afternoon off to spend with my daughter before school starts again on Wednesday. As we hung out I scanned my tweet stream and saw something about GoDaddy and Locu. No biggie, I thought. I’ve already written about their partnership. It wasn’t until last evening that I saw that it wasn’t about the partnership — GoDaddy announced it acquired Locu. Locu helps ... read more ...