traded as nasdaq eigi industry internet hosting services predecessor bizland founded 1997 founder hari ravichandran headquarters burlington massachusetts united states number of locations worldwide key people hari ravichandran services web hosting domain registration seo email marketing number of employees over 2 500 2016 website www.endurance.com endurance international group inc. eig formerly bizland is a web hosting company . the company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in burlington massachusetts . 1 it achieved its size by acquiring a large number of smaller companies which it continues to operate under the original brand names . 2 in 2011 endurance was bought from accel kkr by warburg pincus and gs capital partners for around 975 million . 3 in september 2013 the company announced plans to raise 400 million in an ipo . 4 the company announced it would list on the nasdaq under the ticker symbol eigi . 5 it went public in october 2013 raising 252 million selling shares to the public at 12 each . this was below the company s target goal of 400 million . 6 7 in a 2015 investor earnings conference call the company reported having 4.2 million worldwide users . 8 this path to increased size is similar to the path networking company verio followed in the 1990s using free cash flow and access to capital markets 9 in acquiring assets to add to their corporate portfolio . 10 the concept was to roll up small isps into one large national isp and achieve economies of scale . endurance though u.s. based is acquiring hosting companies domestically and internationally . 2 blake cunneen endurance s senior vice president of corporate development has stated investing in mergers and acquisitions is a very accretive use of free cash flow and going forward we ll continue to do so . we don t have any deals we re announcing . but we told the street to expect m & a growth to continue . 11 the company made four buys in 2014 . the biggest being a 109.8 million cash and stock deal for the web presence business of directi from indian based directi web technologies . directi provides services in various countries including india the u.s. turkey china russia and indonesia . 11 in april 2014 a major network issue at the data center in provo utah affected customers of bluehost hostmonster and justhost and took down many of the dedicated servers owned by hostgator customers . 12 relevant discuss in march 2015 the company announced an investment in netherlands based technology startup appmachine acquiring 40 % of the company . 13 14 in august 2015 eig announced the acquisition of site5 and verio web hosting from ntt . it is estimated that eig gained 86 000 new subscribers through these acquisitions . 15 16 in november 2015 17 the company acquired constant contact and days later laid off 15 % of their workforce . 18 also in november 2015 eig acquired the assets of ecommerce llc for 28 million . 19 this acquisition included a total of 72 000 subscribers from three different hosting brands ix web hosting cloud by ix and host excellence . company structure edit although now one of the internet s largest web hosting providers the company is structured differently than other large hosting companies such as rackspace godaddy or 1 & 1 internet . the company has grown its hosting and related business through numerous acquisitions . 10 20 subsidiary brands edit the company owns and operates numerous hosting businesses with shared support information and support agents . a partial list of these eig brands include 21 22 2slick . com 23 accountsupport 23 24 arvixe llc 25 a small orange 26 apollohosting 23 appmachine 27 berry information systems l.l.c. 23 bigrock 28 bizland 1 2 23 24 blueboxinternet 29 bluedomino 23 24 bluehost 11 30 31 32 buydomains 11 25 33 cirtexhosting constant contact 18 directi 34 dollar2host 23 domain.com 11 24 domainhost 23 24 dot5hosting 23 24 dotster 1 24 easycgi 23 24 ehost 23 24 emailbrain 35 entryhost 23 24 escalate internet 23 24 fastdomain 30 fatcow 2 23 24 freeyellow 2 23 24 glob t 23 24 homestead 36 hostcentric 23 24 hostclear 37 hostgator 1 31 38 hostnine 39 hostmonster 40 hostv vps hostwithmenow.com 23 hostyoursite.com 23 24 hypermart 2 23 24 imoutdoors 23 24 intuit websites 36 41 ipage 23 24 41 ipower ipowerweb 2 23 24 ix web hosting 19 justhost 42 logicboxes 43 mojomarketplace . 44 mydomain 24 myresellerhome 23 mysocialsuite 24 netfirms 24 45 networks web hosting 23 24 nexx 46 powweb 2 23 24 purehost 2 23 24 readyhosting.com 23 24 resellerclub 47 saba pro 23 seo gears 48 seo hosting 49 50 seo web hosting site5 48 southeast web 23 speedhost 23 spertly 23 24 startlogic 23 24 supergreen hosting 51 typepad 26 unified layer 48 usanethosting 23 24 vdeck 52 verio 53 virtualavenue 2 23 24 vpslink 23 24 webzai ltd. 11 webhost4life 23 24 webhosting.info 54 webstrike solutions 23 24 xeran 24 yourwebhosting 23 references edit a b c d the endurance international group inc. bloomberg businessweek . retrieved april 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