Newfold Digital

Endurance International Group (EIG) previously named BizLand was an IT services company specializing in web hosting. The company was founded in 1997 and was headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA.The Endurance International Group, Inc.
, ''Bloomberg Businessweek''. Retrieved April 12, 2011 It achieved its size by acquiring a large number of smaller companies.Rich Miller

NetCraft, May 9, 2007 In 2021 Endurance International Group merged with Web.com forming a new company, Newfold Digital.

History

In 2011, Endurance was bought from Accel-KKR by Warburg Pincus and GS Capital Partners, for around $975 million. In September 2013, the company announced plans to raise $400 million in an IPO. The company announced it would list on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol EIGI. It went public in October 2013 raising $252 million selling shares to the public at $12 each. This was below the company's target goal of $400 million.

This path to increased size is similar to the path networking company Verio followed in the 1990s, using free cash flow and access to capital markets in acquiring assets to add to their corporate portfolio. The concept was to roll up small ISPs into one large ISP and achieve economies of scale. Endurance acquired hosting companies domestically and internationally.

In March 2015, the company announced an investment in Netherlands-based technology startup AppMachine, acquiring 40% of the company.

In August 2015, EIG announced the acquisition of Site5 and Verio Web Hosting from NTT. It is estimated that EIG gained 86,000+ new subscribers through these acquisitions.

In November 2015, the company acquired Constant Contact, and days later laid off 15% of their workforce.

Also in November 2015, EIG acquired the assets of Ecommerce, LLC for $28 million.

In August 2018, the firm's CEO and CFO were fined US$8 million for fraud by the SEC for misrepresenting company subscriber numbers.

Endurance acquired Ecomdash in October 2019 for $9.6 million in cash, and placed it under the Constant Contact group.

In November 2020, Clearlake Capital Group announced that it would acquire Endurance International Group for around $3 billion. At the closing of the deal in February 2021, Clearlake Capital announced a few wrinkles. Clearlake spun off the Endurance Web Presence division, including subsidiaries Domain.com, Bluehost, and HostGator.

Endurance Web Presence merged with  Web.com to form a new company named Newfold Digital in 2021. Newfold Digital is a joint venture between Clearlake Capital and Siris Capital Group, owner of Web.com since 2018.

Clearlake also spun off the Constant Contact division of Endurance into a separate joint venture between Clearlake and Siris.

Company structure

Becoming one of the Internet's largest Web hosting providers, the company was structured differently from other large hosting companies such as Rackspace, GoDaddy, or 1&1 Ionos. The company has grown its hosting and related business through numerous acquisitions.

Subsidiary brands

The company has owned and operated numerous hosting businesses, with shared support information and support agents. A partial list of subsidiaries and brands include:

* Bluehost
* Directi
* Domain.com
* Homestead
* HostGator/
* iPage
* PublicDomainRegistry

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