The tentacles of the Endurance International Group

If you ask someone on the street what EIG, you will surely respond “do AIG? Hmmm… sounds me that it is the financial group which had to be bailed out by the Government of the United States “. And you do not culparías you. It is sounding quite similar. Even if ask you those close to the industry of web hosting you will find many hesitant faces. Even if you log in to your web site you adivinarías easily, when in fact it is one of the largest on the planet web hosting groups.

Endurance International Group (EIG) began as a provider of free hosting in 1997 and since then has been growing dramatically, especially in recent years through acquisitions of other hosting providers. The controlling Endurance International Group today are more than 35 and some with millions of hosting to your credit accounts. Some of their key data are:

1997 – home.

2001 – 20 employees and 15,000 customers.

2011 – 1,200 employees and around 2,000,000 customers.

The main domains associated with EIG are:

• accountsupport
• enduranceinternational
• maileig
• yourhostingaccount
• yourwebhosting
• vdeck

All of which adds a stunning figure of 4.347.435 domains, turning this group into one of the giants of the sector.

It is curious that virtually none of these acquisitions was the subject of press releases. They apparently prefer to keep a low profile and that each company continue operating under its own brand. In very few cases have expressed it openly, as happened with the acquisition of the Canadian Netfirms the first half of 2011.

But in the case of Bluehost/Hostmonster/Fastdomain has been necessary to resort to rumors (The Sellout Bluehost, Bluehost acquired by EIG) and a reference in the NECN news site specific (see Google cache) in which it was stated that both companies were controlled by Endurance International Group. We can obtain the list of other companies and associated brands thanks to the tab of EIG in Better Business Bureau (BBB.org).