Decisions this changes
Each card is a call a team has to make anyway. The evidence behind it is one click away:
Reject a misleading market size
Registry totals overstate the addressable hosting market by a fifth to a half, varying by country. Screen on the active-domains floor instead.
Market-size brief →See through a headline price
The median European shared-hosting offer renews at 3.0× its entry price — and the national norm runs from about twice the intro price in Switzerland and Austria to more than four times it in Denmark.
Renewal-cliff brief →Find the unintegrated portfolio
Acquired brands often remain standalone across DNS, mail, origin and platform — visible at brand level, layer by layer.
Operator workflows →Size a customer book on one basis
Compare the full domain book with the active-domains floor, measured the same way for every operator.
Investor workflows →Screen markets on real structure
Owner-folded concentration on the actor base the question actually asks about — across Europe, national market power varies more than sevenfold.
Concentration brief →Spot distribution whitespace
Observed attach signals across consolidator books show where a product category is thin and commercial reach is strong.
Channel workflows →Ask the question a league table can't answer
A dashboard can tell you who is largest. The real work begins after that — and HostingBrain keeps the context with the answer, so analysis continues instead of restarting.
Not mockups — actual product output from the current snapshot, restyled for the page. Market structure is shown openly; forward-looking and provider-level intelligence is redacted here and named in the product.
Evidence & caveats
| year | acquirer group | target | category | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | group.one | Hostnet | hosting / domains | company release |
| 2024 | team.blue | Loopia Group | hosting | company release |
| 2024 | Miss Group | Domeneshop | domains / registrar | industry press |
| 2025 | World Host Group | A2 Hosting | hosting | PR Newswire |
| 2025 | team.blue | AssoConnect | SaaS | company release |
Six things a buyer needs to know
One product, six commercial questions: who leads a market, who owns whom, what has actually been integrated, what it costs, how good the book is, and what runs on it. Registrations, control, what a site serves and who owns the relationship are reconciled once — so the question picks the lens, not the data source:
Market structure
Rank operators on the right layer: customer relationship, hosting origin, email or web platform.
Ownership and consolidation
Fold brands into current owners and trace validated acquisition history.
Integration and migration
See whether acquired brands share networks, mail, DNS or platforms — ownership is not treated as integration.
Pricing intelligence
Compare entry offers, ladders, renewal cliffs and promotional mechanics across markets.
Book quality and movement
Separate active businesses from parked or inactive domains; observe directional provider movement without calling it measured churn.
Technology and distribution
Find CMS, commerce, email, security and SaaS provisioning patterns across operator books.
Built for decisions, not browsing
Choose the workflow closest to the decision in front of you.
Vendors and partners
Find where your product can attach. Prioritise hosting groups and markets where addressable reach, platform maturity and observed need align.
Explore channel research →Hosting operators
Run the portfolio with an outside-in view. Benchmark markets and brands, prioritise integration and find commercial opportunities across the book.
Explore operator research →Investors and advisors
Research the market behind a transaction. Market structure, ownership, consolidation and pricing, measured the same way for every operator, with sources attached.
Explore investor research →Where the claims stop
Every count names its population — the strictest is the floor of 141M+ active domains, and ownership claims trace to a validated source-linked acquisition ledger with 263 acquisitions and mergers. Known-bad values are withheld, series changes are declared and unknowns are reported as unknowns. HostingBrain is not a revenue estimate, a customer list or a legal register of ownership — the methodology states every boundary in full.
See the method at work
HostingBrain briefs turn a market question into a transparent analytical argument. Each brief shows the population, method, finding — and what the result does not prove.
The route checked out. It was still a forgery.
An attacker announced Hetzner address space using Hetzner's own ASN as origin. The announcement was RPKI-valid. What would have caught it is the…
September 2026The same word, leader, two floors down
webhosting.today showed that Cloudflare is everywhere and leads fewer than half the markets it tracks. Read the same markets one floor down — brands…
August 2026The measurements behind the Hosting Anatomy series
The instrument readings behind the Hosting Anatomy series: what was measured, on which population, with which definitions, and where the measurements…
August 2026All 16 analyst briefs → — every brief is reproducible through the connector, most on the free tier.
All briefs: The route checked out. It was still a forgery. · The same word, leader, two floors down · The measurements behind the Hosting Anatomy series · The AI web is one company · Buy first, integrate never · Three buyers, half the software deals · Three ways to sell a domain · Cheap first year. Then three times the price. · Half the domains have no website · Europe checks the mail. Nobody stops it. · Hosting customers don't leave · Whoever holds the domain, holds the customer · Nobody left hosting. They left the bundle. · The server moves. The customer doesn't. · Who really owns Europe's hosting · Where the new websites are going · About HostingBrain
Every European market is answerable through the connector today; thirteen have full worked-example pages. Country market pages → — concentration, market size and email posture per market.
All thirteen markets: Norway · Denmark · France · Sweden · Italy · United Kingdom · Germany · Czechia · Poland · Finland · Switzerland · Spain · Netherlands
Start exploring — free, no key needed
HostingBrain lives inside the AI assistant your team already uses. Add it once as a connector, sign in with Google when prompted, and ask your first question. The free tier covers market-level analysis, the methodology and 30 queries/day.
https://mcp.hostingbrain.ai/mcp
Set up Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients → — the same page issues API keys for scripts.