OGS, Netregistry buy stake in TPP Internet

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 27 October 2009 08:40

IT Industry - Strategy

The running of TPP will continue to be controlled by TPP CEO and joint shareholder, Chris Collinge, and Bloch said OGS hoped to provide additional ancillary services to TPP and across all brands to provide a more complete online service.

In a veiled reference to Melbourne IT, Bloch said that “business owners need an online business services champion to make access to the best online technologies and ideas as clear, simple and productive as possible. We believe we are that champion and will continue to cement that position.”

Chris Collinge says that TPP customers will not notice any changes following the acquisition and that it is “business as usual.”

Meanwhile, Bloch revealed that OGS is continuing to look for further acquisitions, which he boasts will secure its hold as “Australia’s leading webhost and domain registrar.

“If you have thousands of domain and hosting customers, I would be interested to hear from you. However, our focus is shifting towards the next phase of our strategic plan, to grow the range of business management services we provide to our 300,000 active Australian business customers.”

According to Bloch, as the hosting demands of businesses grow larger and more complex, he believes many are turning to larger, established providers.

“Many smaller web hosts can’t compete with the kind of scalable, high tolerance infrastructure we offer. The web is evolving incredibly fast and infrastructures need to evolve with it. Keeping up with that requires a great deal of investment, forward planning and constant growth.”

 And, he maintains that the success and growth of OGS is tightly linked to the “achievements of customers served by the various brands in the group.”

Bloch claims that, despite the Global Financial Crisis, OGS saw growth of over 40 percent for the ’09 financial year, and that “online business has remained strong throughout the year for our customers and, by extension, us. This reinforces research early in 09 that showed business confidence online did not fall nearly as dramatically as it did offline.”
                                             
Bloch said that OGS is continuing to look for further acquisitions to secure its hold as “Australia’s leading webhost and domain registrar.”

 “If you have thousands of domain and hosting customers, I would be interested to hear from you,” says Bloch. “However, our focus is shifting towards the next phase of our strategic plan: to grow the range of business management services we provide to our 300,000 active Australian business customers.”

“However, I am excited by the opportunity to further enhance the excellent service TPP provides. As part of this market leading group we have greater access to resources and products to deliver to our business customers.”