Website Pros Inc. David Brown established Website Pros Inc.'s predecessor, the technology services company Atlantic Teleservices, Inc., in Jacksonville in 1997. Brown served as CEO until 1999, when he sold the company to Website Pros, via the venture and growth equity investment firm
Norwest Venture Partners. Website Pros was founded in 1999 by Darin Brannan. Brown joined the company's board of directors. in October 2001 for an undisclosed amount. Website Pros received $17 million in venture capital, which included $10 million in December 2003 from
Insight Venture Partners and $7 million Norwest in April 2004. The
Jacksonville Business Journal reported that Website Pros had 40,000 clients, including Discover Business Services and
IBM, at the time the company secured funding from Norwest. Website Pros acquired eBoz and Leads.com, and reported $37.8 million in sales, in 2005. Website Pros acquired the Canadian company 1ShoppingCart.com, which offers software e-commerce services, for $12.5 million, In 2007, Website Pros acquired the
Atlanta-based company Web.com, which was founded in 1981 and formerly known as Interland, Inc. Under the agreement, which was valued at $129 million, Website Pros paid $25 million in cash and the rest in stock. Brown continued to serve as chairman and CEO of the merged company, and
Jeff Stibel, who was serving as president and CEO of Web.com, became a president and board member of Website Pros. The company remained headquartered in Jacksonville, and the merger resulted in a more than three-fold increase in the number of paid subscribers. In June, the company began trading as "WWWW" The company opened a digital customer service center in
New Glasgow's Aberdeen Business Centre, in September 2016. The office became Web.com's third call center in Nova Scotia; the company also has offices in
Halifax and
Yarmouth. In May 2017, the company relocated 175 employees within
Scottsdale, Arizona's SkySong development into the SkySong 4 building.
Yodle, which was acquired by Web.com in 2016, had moved into SkySong in 2009. The new SkySong 4 office space will house administrative and sales operations. On April 24, 2025, Web.com announced its merger with
Network Solutions, adopting the latter's brand name. This move is part of
Newfold Digital's strategy to consolidate its brands, including merging
iPage, HostMonster, and FatCow into
Bluehost, its primary
web hosting brand.
Acquisitions and partnerships In recent years, Web.com has grown via acquisitions. Web.com acquired
Register.com in 2010 for $135 million, resulting in an 80 percent increase in revenue and a four-fold increase in the number of customers. The acquisition increased Web.com's customer base to 3 million people, the number of domains under its management in 9 million, and the number of employees to nearly 2,000. and has a 50 percent partnership with Rightside in NameJet. The company acquired
Scoot.com, the largest online business directory network in the United Kingdom, in July 2014. In 2016, Web.com purchased Rightside's
domain name drop list registrar accreditations for $1.3 million, In December 2016, the company expanded into Latin America by agreeing to acquire the Argentina-based Donweb.com for $8 million. The deal was completed in February 2017. Web.com has partnered with other companies to enhance its offerings to customers. In 2009, Web.com partnered with
Chase Paymentech to provide payment processing services, as well as
First Data to offer e-commerce, online marketing, and payment processing solutions to businesses. In 2014,
MasterCard and Web.com partnered to feature the former's Simplify Commerce solution, which launched in 2013, as a preferred payment provider. According to the
National Federation of Independent Business,
Sam's Club partnered with Web.com in 2015 to offer online marketing services to small business owners. In February 2017, Domain Name Wire reported that Web.com gave away 375,000
.xyz domains to its customers, as part of an agreement with the
top-level domain's registry, which received an advertising credit worth $3 million. On June 21, 2018, Web.com announced an agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Siris Capital Group, LLC. The agreement was for $25.00 per share in an all cash deal valued at approximately $2 billion. On August 6, 2018, Web.com announced an amended agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Siris Capital Group, LLC for a revised amount of $28.00 per share in Cash and at the end of the "Go Shop" period. Web.com merged with
Endurance Web Presence to form a new company named Newfold Digital in 2021. Newfold Digital is a joint venture between
Clearlake Capital, owner of Endurance Web Presences since 2021 and Siris Capital Group. In January 2019, Sharon Rowlands was named CEO. 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. ==References==