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William V. Campbell,President and Director <br>

Peter Kostandenou, Chief Operating Officer <br>

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==Background==

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Frank Nemanic and Colin Campbell co-founded Hostopia in 1998 as a partnership company in Delaware. In 200, the company partnered with eNIC Corporation, a Washington-based company operating as a registry and registrar of country code-top level domains (ccTLD). The partnership enabled both companies to diversify their portfolios and and enhance their products and services to their clients.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/enic.html eNIC Partnership]</ref> On November 2006, the company completes its Initial Public Offering(IPO)of 4.2 million shares of common stock at C$ 6.00 per share and raised C$ 25.2 million.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/downloads/IPO%20Complete%20Press%20Release%20FINAL.pdf Hostopia IPO]</ref> In 2008, Deluxe Corporation acquired Hostopia in an all cash transaction of C$ 124 million.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/FinalDeluxe6192008.pdf Acquisition]</ref>

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[[Frank Nemanic]] and [[Colin Campbell]] co-founded Hostopia in 1998 as a partnership company in Delaware. In 200, the company partnered with [[eNIC]] Corporation, a Washington-based company operating as a registry and registrar of country code-top level domains ([[ccTLD]]). The partnership enabled both companies to diversify their portfolios and and enhance their products and services to their clients.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/enic.html eNIC Partnership]</ref> On November 2006, the company completes its Initial Public Offering(IPO)of 4.2 million shares of common stock at C$ 6.00 per share and raised C$ 25.2 million.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/downloads/IPO%20Complete%20Press%20Release%20FINAL.pdf Hostopia IPO]</ref> In 2008, [[Deluxe Corporation]] acquired Hostopia in an all cash transaction of C$ 124 million.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/FinalDeluxe6192008.pdf Acquisition]</ref>

==Products and Services==

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==Acquisitions==

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In 2007 Hostopia acquired all the software assets of Next Haus, Inc., a company based in the United States which develops cutting-edge software applications for mobile devices.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/nexthausmay32007-2.pdf Press Release-Nexthaus]</ref> It also acquired all the operating assets of Templaterover.com which include 3,200 website templates, more than 30,000digital images, retail and channel software distribution systems and an exclusive right for an additional 1,600 template.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/templaterover.pdf Press Release-Templaterover]</ref> In 2008, the company acquired the customer assets of Uplinkearth, <ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/uplinkearth_release.pdf Press Release-Uplinkearth]</ref> as well as Tucows Inc. hosting customer assets of approximately 14,000 Domain Direct, NetIdentity and ItsYourDomain.com (IYD customer accounts.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/hostopia_tucows_release.pdf Press Release-Tucows]</ref> In 2011, the company purchased MerchEngines, a search engine marketing firm.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/merchengines_08102009.pdf Press Release-MerchEngines]</ref>

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In 2007 Hostopia acquired all the software assets of '''Next Haus, Inc'''., a company based in the United States which develops cutting-edge software applications for mobile devices.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/nexthausmay32007-2.pdf Press Release-Nexthaus]</ref> It also acquired all the operating assets of '''Templaterover.com''' which include 3,200 website templates, more than 30,000digital images, retail and channel software distribution systems and an exclusive right for an additional 1,600 template.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/templaterover.pdf Press Release-Templaterover]</ref> In 2008, the company acquired the customer assets of '''Uplinkearth''', <ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/uplinkearth_release.pdf Press Release-Uplinkearth]</ref> as well as Tucows Inc. hosting customer assets of approximately 14,000 Domain Direct, NetIdentity and ItsYourDomain.com (IYD customer accounts.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/hostopia_tucows_release.pdf Press Release-Tucows]</ref> In 2011, the company purchased '''MerchEngines''', a search engine marketing firm.<ref>[http://www.hostopia.com/press/merchengines_08102009.pdf Press Release-MerchEngines]</ref>

==Awards==

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# 2006 & 2007 Top 10 Web Hosting Company from Host Review <ref>[http://www.hostreview.com/company-profile-awards/hostopia Hostreview]</ref>

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==Hostopia and ICANN==

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Hostopia is a participant of [[ICANN]] Domain Rountable Conference.

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==References==

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