IPV6 Adoption

Thanks to our friends at Nationwide for the link to this IPv6 Migration Study produced by the Internet Governance Project at Georgia Tech and sponsored by ICANN. (The conclusions are on page 36 if you want to skip to the end.) Spoiler: It looks like we’re going to be in a dual IPv4/6 world for some time.

Cheval M&A is active in helping our customers buy and sell IPv4 blocks. Whether you have excess IPs or a need for additional blocks we can help. Please contact Hillary at hstiff@chevalcap.com

(HT Nationwide Computer Systems)

Appriver acquired by Zix

Congratulations to the folks at Appriver on their sale to Zix for $275 million. Not a lot of detail was provided other than the combined company will have revenue at closing of approximately $180 million. Appriver has long been a leading provider of email and related services and is a terrific asset for any company. Zix provides email security for compliance.

Cheval M&A

Author: Hillary Stiff is President of Cheval M&A. She has been an investment banker and CFO, completing M&A transactions and arranging financing for a number of companies including NTT/Verio, The Endurance International Group and Web.Com among many others. She has helped complete over 470 successful web hosting, ISP and related transactions and distributes a list of hosting and related companies that are for sale.

From the fine folks that brought you GDPR...

The EU has been working on a new copyright law that would make Internet providers liable for copyright infringements of their customers. The law could have a number of impacts including the need for providers to implement content filtering.

Despite opposition, the law seems to continue moving forward. It is unclear if this law will give more momentum to similar efforts that are underway in the US.