Newfold Digital, Inc., previously named BizLand and Endurance International Group, Inc. (EIG), is an American information technology services company specializing in web hosting. The company was founded in 1997 and headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. It is one of the Internet's largest web hosting providers, with a global market share of 3.5% according to W3Techs. The company is 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. In 2021, Endurance International Group was acquired by Clearlake Capital and merged with Web.com, a portfolio company of Siris Capital Group since 2018, to form Newfold Digital, a joint venture between Clearlake and Siris.
History
The company was named BizLand until 2002.
In 2011, Warburg Pincus and Goldman Sachs Alternatives bought Endurance from Accel-KKR for about $975 million. In September 2013, the company announced plans to raise $400 million in an initial public offering (IPO) and to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol EIGI. It went public in October 2013, selling shares at $12 each and raising $252 million, less than its $400 million target.
The company's growth was similar to that of the networking company Verio in the 1990s, which used free cash flow and access to capital markets to acquire other businesses. Its approach was to roll up small internet service providers (ISPs) into one large provider to achieve economies of scale. Endurance acquired these hosting companies both domestically and internationally.
In 2014, EIG bought four Directi-owned companies – BigRock, LogicBoxes, ResellerClub, and Webhosting.info – for $160 million.
In March 2015, the company acquired a 40 percent stake in AppMachine, a technology startup based in the Netherlands. In August 2015, EIG announced that it would acquire Site5 and Verio Web Hosting from NTT. The acquisitions were estimated to add more than 86,000 subscribers. In November 2015, the company acquired Constant Contact and, days later, laid off 15 percent of its workforce. That same month, 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 Securities and Exchange Commission (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. 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, Newfold Digital, in 2021.
Clearlake also spun off the Constant Contact division of Endurance into a separate joint venture between Clearlake and Siris.
In November 2022, Newfold Digital "signed a definitive agreement to purchase MarkMonitor, an industry-leading enterprise-level provider of domain management solutions" from Clarivate. MarkMonitor provides brand protection, anti-piracy, and domain-name registration services for a variety of Big Tech industry giants and other companies.
In June 2025, Newfold Digital officially integrated the Web.com brand into Network Solutions, redirecting Web.com visitors to Network Solutions' login page. As part of a strategic reorganization, Newfold Digital divided its operations into two divisions: the Network Solutions Group, led by Christina Clohecy, encompassing brands like Network Solutions, Register.com, Domain.com, MarkMonitor, and Crazy Domains; and the Bluehost Group, headed by Sachin Puri, overseeing hosting brands.
Subsidiary brands The company owns and operates numerous hosting businesses, with shared support information and support agents. Subsidiaries and brands include:
Bluehost CrazyDomains Domain.com FastDomain Homestead HostGator iPage LogicBoxes MarkMonitor (November 2022 - 2025) Network Solutions Register.com ResellerClub Site5 Typepad Verio (webhosting only) Vodien Web.com Yoast SEO
References
External links for Newfold Digital Inc.