Holdings
These companies are neither defunct nor stubs, and they are not in the register either: they own hosting brands and sell no hosting under their own name. They keep a record because ownership is useful to know about, and the ownership field records the same relation from the other side, on the record of each brand. A company that sells hosting as well as owning others is not here. It is in the register, with its parentage recorded like anybody else’s — GoDaddy and Ionos both own more brands than most readers would guess, and both sell hosting themselves.
33 records, kept out of the register and out of its count.
A
- A1 Telekom Austria Group
An Austrian telecoms group and the owner of Exoscale.
- Alphabet
Google's holding company, which sells no hosting under its own name.
- Anaconda
A Python tooling company and the owner of PythonAnywhere.
- Automattic
The company behind WordPress.com, Pressable and WooCommerce, which sells no hosting under its own name.
B
- Block, Inc.
The payments company formerly called Square, and the owner of Weebly.
C
- Cinven
A European private-equity firm that owns the group behind a host recorded here, and sells no hosting itself.
- Clearlake Capital
A US investment firm that is one of the two owners of the group behind Bluehost and HostGator, and sells no hosting itself.
- CloudOne Digital
The holding company that acquired Liquid Web.
- Cube Infrastructure Managers
An infrastructure investment manager and the owner of GleSYS.
- CVC Capital Partners
A private-equity firm that holds majority stakes in a registrar and in the group behind cPanel and Plesk, and sells no hosting itself.
D
- Deno Land Inc.
The company behind the Deno runtime, which also operates Deno Deploy.
E
- Endurance International Group
The group that assembled Bluehost, HostGator and iPage before becoming Newfold Digital.
G
- GMO Pepabo
A Japanese internet company whose hosting reaches customers as Lolipop and other brands.
- GoRails, LLC
A Ruby on Rails education company and the owner of Hatchbox.
- group.one
A Swedish hosting group whose brands reach customers under their own names across Europe.
H
- Hg
A European technology investor and the largest shareholder in a hosting group recorded here, which sells no hosting itself.
I
- iliad Group
The French telecoms group behind Free, and the owner of Scaleway.
- IONOS Group SE
The listed holding company beneath which the IONOS brands sit, including Fasthosts and STRATO.
K
- KKR
A US investment firm that holds the majority of a server provider recorded here, and sells no hosting itself.
N
- Newfold Digital
The holding company for Bluehost, HostGator and Network Solutions.
- Nexigen Digital
An Australian group holding hosting brands, VentraIP among them.
O
- Oakley Capital
A British private-equity firm that owns a hosting group recorded here, and sells no hosting itself.
P
- Permira
A private-equity firm that owns a hosting company recorded here, and sells no hosting itself.
S
- Salesforce
A software company that owns Heroku and sells no hosting under its own name.
- Silver Lake
A US technology investment firm that majority-owns a managed WordPress host recorded here, and sells no hosting itself.
- Siris Capital
A US private-equity firm that is one of the two owners of the group behind Bluehost and HostGator, and sells no hosting itself.
T
- team.blue
A European group assembled by acquisition, holding hosting and domain brands across a dozen countries.
U
- United Internet
The German group behind Ionos, 1&1, Fasthosts, Arsys, home.pl and Strato.
W
- WebPros
The Swiss-based owner of cPanel, Plesk and WHMCS, which sells hosting only to partners who resell it under their own name.
- weDevs
A WordPress plugin company from Dhaka and the owner of FlyWP.
- World Host Group
The buy-and-build hosting group that renamed itself Hosting.com in 2025.
- WPDeveloper
A WordPress plugin company and the owner of xCloud.
Y
- Your.Online
A Dutch group holding hosting, domain and trust brands across Europe, each kept under its own name.