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American citizen Anthony Chai filed a lawsuit against Netfirms on August 24, 2011, alleging Netfirms disclosed his IP address and email to the government of Thailand after Chai posted comments on a website hosted by Netfirms.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sledge|first=Matt|title=Anthony Chai Lawsuit Against Netfirms.com Involves Interrogation At LAX McDonald's By Thai Police|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/anthony-chai-lawsuit-netfirmscom_n_963213.html|publisher=Huffington Post|accessdate=17 April 2014}}</ref><ref>http://robinlea.com/pub/chai_complaint.pdf</ref> American citizen Anthony Chai filed a lawsuit against Netfirms on August 24, 2011, alleging Netfirms disclosed his IP address and email to the government of Thailand after Chai posted comments on a website hosted by Netfirms.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sledge|first=Matt|title=Anthony Chai Lawsuit Against Netfirms.com Involves Interrogation At LAX McDonald's By Thai Police|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/anthony-chai-lawsuit-netfirmscom_n_963213.html|publisher=Huffington Post|accessdate=17 April 2014}}</ref><ref>http://robinlea.com/pub/chai_complaint.pdf</ref>


In April 2014, a major network issue at the data center in Provo, Utah,<ref>{{citation|title=Fatcow|url=http://www.bestwebhostingrates.com/hosting/fatcow-review/|accessdate=17 April 2014|year=2014|publisher=Web Hosting Rates}}</ref> affected customers of Bluehost, HostMonster and JustHost, and took down many of the dedicated servers owned by HostGator customers.<ref>{{cite web|last=Warren|first=Christina|title=Bluehost, HostGator and HostMonster Go Down|url=http://mashable.com/2013/08/02/bluehost-down/|publisher=Mashable|accessdate=17 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bluehost, HostMonster, And HostGator Websites Go Down Following Maintenance Issue|url=http://www.inquisitr.com/884605/bluehost-hostmonster-and-hostgator-go-down-following-server-outage/|publisher=The Inquisitr News|accessdate=17 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Miller|first=Rich|title=Major Outage for BlueHost, HostGator, HostMonster|url=http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/08/02/major-outage-for-bluehost-hostgator/|accessdate=17 April 2014}}</ref><ref>http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/network-issues-cause-hostgator-provo-data-center-outage</ref> Bluehost uses VOIP for customer support and was unable to respond to phone calls because of the network outage at its datacenter.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bluehost's official twitter response to phone outage|url=https://twitter.com/bluehost/status/363382411620384769}}</ref> In April 2014, a major network issue at the data center in Provo, Utah,<ref>{{citation|title=Fatcow|url=http://www.bestwebhostingrates.com/hosting/fatcow-review/|accessdate=17 April 2014|year=2014|publisher=Web Hosting Rates}}</ref> affected customers of Bluehost, HostMonster and JustHost, and took down many of the dedicated servers owned by HostGator customers.<ref>{{cite web|last=Warren|first=Christina|title=Bluehost, HostGator and HostMonster Go Down|url=http://mashable.com/2013/08/02/bluehost-down/|publisher=Mashable|accessdate=17 April 2014}}</ref>


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Endurance International Group, Inc.
Company typePublic
Traded asNasdaq: EIGI
IndustryWeb hosting, domain registration
PredecessorBizLand
Founded1997
FounderHari Ravichandran
HeadquartersBurlington, Massachusetts, United States
Number of locationsWorldwide
Key peopleHari Ravichandran
Products54+ brands
ServicesWeb services
Websitewww.enduranceinternational.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,. It achieved its size by acquiring a large number of smaller companies, which it continues to operate under the original brand names. In 2011, Endurance was bought from Accel-KKR by Warburg Pincus and GS Capital Partners, for around $975 million. The company went public in October 2013.

American citizen Anthony Chai filed a lawsuit against Netfirms on August 24, 2011, alleging Netfirms disclosed his IP address and email to the government of Thailand after Chai posted comments on a website hosted by Netfirms.

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.

References

  1. ^ The Endurance International Group, Inc., Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved April 12, 2011
  2. WebHosting.info. Retrieved April 12, 2011
  3. Rich Miller, IPOWER, Endurance International Announce Merger, NetCraft, May 9, 2007
  4. Justhost. Retrieved June 9, 2011
  5. Better Business Bureau website. Retrieved August 18, 2012
  6. Donn Edwards, About the Endurance International Group (EIG), April 24, 2010
  7. Netfirms Acquired by Endurance International Group, Web Hosting Hero, March 7, 2011
  8. NECN.com, Koch Industries sues over bogus website, release, Jan. 5, 2011
  9. Insights and Rants: About the Endurance International Group (EIG)
  10. Demos, Telis. "Web Hoster Endurance International Preps for IPO". WSJ. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  11. Eagle, Liam (8 November 2011). "Accel-KKR Group Sells Web Hosting Giant Endurance International for $1 Billion". iNet. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  12. http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/company/endurance-international-group-holdings-inc-409100-73448
  13. Sledge, Matt. "Anthony Chai Lawsuit Against Netfirms.com Involves Interrogation At LAX McDonald's By Thai Police". Huffington Post. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  14. http://robinlea.com/pub/chai_complaint.pdf
  15. Fatcow, Web Hosting Rates, 2014, retrieved 17 April 2014
  16. Warren, Christina. "Bluehost, HostGator and HostMonster Go Down". Mashable. Retrieved 17 April 2014.

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