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You may have caught wind of some of the .me buzz last week, as GoDaddy started taking registrations for them for $20 a year (and you have to sign up for two years, so that should really be $40). According to Mashable.com several people were claiming to have registered the same domain name, which is going to be a disappointment for some. If eight people say they registered it, that will leave seven people really unhappy about the whole ordeal.
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Web Hosting Mergers and Acquisitions - April 2008
Sat, 31 May 2008 11:30:00 -0400
April was a bit more active than March. I am getting some good "vibes" pre HostingCon and ISPCON was better than expected. My firm closed a couple of transactions which is always nice. So here we go...
Laguna Niguel, CA -- Alentus Corporation (ALNS) acquired Austin, Texas-based Website Source, Inc. (Shared) and SpeedFox, Inc. (Dedicated). The deals add $2.6M in annual revenue to Alentus. Tom Millitzer President of NCC-New Commerce Communications (This blogger) represented Website Source and Speedfox in the transactions.
Dublin, Ireland - Digiweb, has acquired web hosting Novara, as well as its host.ie and register.ie brands. Digiweb serves 22,000 hosting customers, 32,000 broadband customers and has 140 Employees.
Boston, MA - ABRY Partners acquired Raleigh, NC based Hosted Solutions for $140 million. Hosted Solutions has several East Coast data centers and provides managed services. Paul Stapleton of DH Capital represented Hosted Solutions in the transaction.
Scottsdale, AZ - Vilocity Interactive Inc. recently expanded its client roster and presence on the East Coast with the acquisition of a Boston-based WebNesting a hosting and site development firm.
San Mateo, CA – SAS provider Etelos, Inc. (Public, OTC: ETLO) completed reverse merger into Tripath Technology. Company has a market cap of $210 million.
Nottinghamshire UK - Timico Group acquired Twang.net Limited, a UK-based a specialist in fully managed solutions.
Renton, WA - Parallels, has acquired ModernGigabyte, the ModernBill automated billing system and other hosting automation solutions. ModernGigabyte provides software to nearly 15,000 hosting resellers with more than 2 million customers worldwide.
Plano, TX - Layered Technologies, Inc., acquired of FastServers.net, a Chicago-based managed hosting company. I ran into FastServers founder Ian Andrusyk at ISPCON…he was very relaxed.
Mississauga, ON - Hostopia (TSX: H) acquired the customer assets of Web hosting provider Luxomovera, operating as uplinkearth.com. Reportedly an all-cash offer that will migrate some 12,500 customers Hostopia's facilities.
Fairfax, VA - mindSHIFT Technologies acquired Collaboration Online, better known as groupSPARK. Collaboration Online provides Shared & Dedicated Exchange data center and other server side services.
Obviously not all inclusive - but from the NCC files.
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Maximizing Your Mindshare (and Wallet Share) in the New World of SaaS
Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:11:00 -0400
I really like SMBLive CEO Matt Howard's way of looking at software as a service. (Some argue that we should start calling it software enabled service.) Matt says running a business is all about maintaining "5 conversations": with oneself, co-workers, external partners (vendors/contractors/distributors), customers and the general public. So ideally, web apps should facilitate personal productivity,
collaboration, vendor management, CRM and sales/marketing.
Traditionally, hosting providers have focused on helping customers maintain a web presence - which only fulfills 20% of the functionalities Matt describes. So I thought it was pretty awesome when Barbara Branaman mentioned that Concentric is in the process of integrating its new collaboration service with its clustered hosting and email solutions. I said the unified offering should help Concentric increase mindshare. Barbara said also importantly, it will boost wallet share. The goal is to earn a larger slice of more customers' IT budgets.
Barbara will need to keep a close eye on Google, whose Apps Premier cover about half of the 5 conversations. Remember last December's headlines about Microsoft battling Gmail for corporate workers' attention? It seems Redmond faces an even tougher challenge with respect to productivity apps: Ars Technica reported yesterday that Google Docs and Spreadsheet account for a 92% share of unique visitors, and 95% of the amount of time spent. I'm not impressed with Google Pages, but Blogger is pretty popular. I'm sure sooner or later both will be rolled into Google Apps, along with Google Base.
Meanwhile, have you heard about eBay's new partnerships with ERP/CRM provider NetSuite (spotted via Mark Crofton's blog) and popular social network Bebo? And SalesForce is looking to build a "circle of success" around its CRM app; David Berlind says their odds are decent.
Earlier David Snead asked via a comment on an earlier post whether easy interoperability between different vendors' apps will obviate the need for hosting providers to customize services for any audience. Based on Rodney Loges' experience, I think the answer is no.
Rodney (who was instrumental in digitalNATION's $100 million sale to Verio as well as Rackspace's launch of its Intensive service) has transformed his company from a web development firm into a SaaS provider by assembling a suite of best-of-breed content management, web analytics, collaboration, etc, tools for associations and non-profits. Each hand-picked application meets specific requirements that his customers share. I think that's what it takes to win in SaaS/SES - of which hosting is just a small percent. In other words, the key is customer segmentation.
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dreamhost "offers" Miva shopping cart hosting, but they only have one person
trained in Miva support, so if your store has a problem when that person is gone
- good luck!
My store has been down for almost 3 weeks, and I am in the process of
transferring to a new host. dreamhost customer service has been extremely slow,
frequently choosing to file my service requests into one person or another's
folder, rather than tell me anything. When I have heard back, I have been given
varying promises of attention and a fix, but nothing has happened, and no one
has bothered to tell me why.
Key to the whole problem is the apparent fact that dreamhost has not a clue of
what e-commerce is all about. While other hosts might be in a full-blown panic
if their e-commerce sites were down for a couple of hours, dreamhost is quite
content to allow the situation to go on indefinitely. Very unprofessional in
their approach.
I know of several other dreamhost Miva sites that are transferring, or have
transfered, to new hosts. So, most likely in the near future they will be
hosting very few Miva sites, and their competence in the area can be expected to
fall even further.
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