Buyer of domain hosting companies in Poland

• Revenue: 3-30M EUR
• Employees: not decisive
• Location of the target: Poland
• Reason for acquisition: The company is a large player in domain hosting industry. It has a strategy for growing its operations in Poland via acquisitions, therefore the management is open to speaking to interested sellers
• #CFIE ITB093

The company is an important actor in the domain hosting industry and it belongs to a strong group of European companies, group that has established a strategy for growing by doing acquisitions of domain hosting companies. The management is looking to grow the business in Poland and wants to find suited targets. The potential target would need to have a wide network of clients, should report annual turnover ranging from 3-30M euro and should register good profitability.

The buyer has more than 20 years of experience on the market and employs more than 250 people that are skilled in various information technologies and services. The company is an excellent choice for individual clients and small and medium enterprises being specialized in providing internet services such as domains, website hosting, e-mail accounts, online stores and internet based business applications. Other kinds of customers that can find useful the company’s products are international concerns, financial institutions or public administration agencies. In order to expand its portfolio and to diversify the products, the company collaborates with technological leaders, being a certified partner of Microsoft and Google. To make sure it delivers the best services, the company implemented ISO 27001 information security management standards.

Using the domain services provided by the company, clients can verify on the company’s website if the name they want for their website (together with the domain extension) it is free. Clients can register: global domain addresses using domain extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .info; local domain addresses: .pl, .eu, .de and also can register special domain addresses such as .cloud, .online, .tech, .art, etc. After they ensured the name is free, they can register that website’s name they chose and take advantage of other services and benefits provided by the company such as: website creator tool (clients can create and design their own website), website hosting, 24-hour professional support, website’s safety and stability, etc. The best combination that will ensure the success of a website is formed by the domain and hosting, together with the website clients being able to obtain the email addresses associated.

The company delivers various packages of hosting, for starters, for businesses, professional hosting that holds several sites in one place and premium hosting that has advanced design and heavy traffic. Each package has different tools and parameters such as server capacity, annual transfer amount, MySQL / InnoDB database, PostgreSQL database, MS SQL database, SSH console, space for email, etc. Other features and opportunities in hosting that clients can get are: email boxes in the domain, managed backup capabilities, multi-language support, antivirus and anti-spam protection, auto installer of popular applications, etc.

The buyer is looking to acquire a company that operates in the same activity and has products such as:

• Domain: Domain Search, Registration & Transfer, E-mail for Companies & Private
• Hosting: Website & Email, WordPress, VPS and Dedicated Servers
• Website Creator, Design & Optimization
• WordPress Automatic Installation
• Security: SSL & Wildcard Certificates, Sitelock
• Microsoft Office 365
• Internet Shops
• PrestaShop
• Electronic Payments
• Marketing Applications
• Support

• The buyer is a key player in domain hosting industry
• The buyer’s commercial offer is very large and diverse
• The company has decided to enlarge its activities in Poland and is looking to buy another enterprise with similar products and solutions