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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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Indian Host NetMagic Going Global

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST
March 3, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- As the hosting market grows in India, the demand for data centers and hosting services has increased exponentially.

Use Gmail, says DreamHost

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000
Web hosting provider DreamHost has recently given its customers the rather unusual advice of choosing Google's Gmail over its own email service, telling them that "it's something Google...can do better."

UK Windows VPS

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:19:11 +0000
Greetings!
At some point in April we hope to announce our new Windows VPS hosting to add to our portfolio of linux VPS. We hope that Windows VPS sales will be as sucessful as the Linux.
A date has not yet been confirmed nor any specifications set. These will become available nearer the time.
Pricing is also unknown.



Missions Alive

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:50:10 -0500
The ministry of Harvey and LeAnn Waddelow, Missions Alive exists to motivate, educate, recruit, and equip churches and individuals for worldwide Christian missionary service.

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Dialpoint Stock Soars after Two Key Hosting - Telecom Acquisitions

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:47:00 -0400

I noticed that Dialpoint Communications Corp (OTCBB: DLPC) completed two acquisitions in January;

The first: Acquisition of Hostigation (Timothy Flavin), an asset transaction where the owners accepted 333,334 shares of Dialpoint stock. This stock has already increased 5 to 20 times (depending how you interpret the agreements) since the deal was inked.

The second: Acquisition of Brian's Computer Center, the press release stated “…the Company will issue unregistered shares of its common stock equal in the amount of 107,843 shares. The certificates representing the shares of common stock will bear restrictive legends.”

Dialpoint has a market cap of $38.6 million.

Am I impressed? Peeling back the onion...

• Dialpoint has 13.3 million shares outstanding - thats a lot.
  
• The Hostingation deal has a value of $50,000 at closing...a tiny deal
• The Brian’s Computer deal value looks like it was $170,000...another tiny deal.
• The stock increased from $0.51 on 1-17-08 to $2.90 today...thats a big gain.
  
• Dialpoint President Billy Radford ownes 11.25 million shares...Can you say $32.6 million?
• Over the last two weeks an average of 3,000 shares/day were traded...why bother.

If this was a deal put before one of my clients I would highly suggest we conduct extensive due-diligence prior to accepting a deal like this.

In these deals there is NO cash. The sellers probably cannot be liquid for at least 12 months, and with the current float it would be extreamly hard to sell the shares.

If you are selling your business I would tell you only to take stock as a small percentage from firms that are similiar to Dialpoint. The stock should be the upside - not the whole banana.

Other than the press releases and a couple of SEC docs I could find out almost nothing about Dialpoint. I will however admit they have been very successful in getting thousands of these two press releases pasted all over the Internet.

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