The One Group to win online.

Our Ambition

Entrepreneurs and individual makers are the backbone of our society. They are the ones who ensure long-term prosperity. We work in partnership with all of them so that they can develop ideas and be successful online. With an easy to use and highly effective product ecosystem, we cover the full spectrum of our customers’ needs.

About group.one

group.one is a leading European provider of online presence, cloud hosting and digital marketing services. Over 2 million customers trust us with their online success. Thanks to the support of our partners Cinven and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, we are steadily expanding the Group's service portfolio and geographical footprint.

Countries

11+

Employees

1300

Customers

2m+

Revenue

€300m+

Operating for

20 Years

Female employees

32%

How we help entrepreneurs win online.

Domains

Every online project starts with a name. We provide our customers with the respective desired name from over 500 domain endings. And if the right name is not available, we help with the domain purchase.
 

Websites

The website is the linchpin of digital customer engagement. With our website builder, custom WordPress software and a sophisticated web hosting platform, we offer customers all the tools for doing business online.

Cloud Server

As entrepreneurs' demands on digital infrastructure grow, group.one Cloud offers the best in performance, flexibility, security and stability. Be it e-commerce, business-critical applications or digital services, we power growth.

Digital Marketing

The world of online marketing is evoloving and complexifying every day. We help customers navigate the digital marketing landscape, from web presence to search engine optimization and digital advertising campaigns. 

Software as a Service

With website software tools, we help customers be successful on the web. WordPress plugins like WP Rocket and Imagify are speeding up millions of websites around the world. 

Reselling

We work closely with agencies, managed service providers and service providers. In a strong partner program, we combine resellable products, decades of experience for the service needs of professional IT entrepreneurs and attractive commercial models. 

The people who make winners.

Daniel Hagemeier

Chief Executive Officer

Sara Fors

Chief Financial Officer

Mette Kamsvåg 

Chair of the Board

Dr. Florian Kopshoff

Chief Operating Officer 
(Pro & Partners )

John Goddard 

Chief Operating Officer 
(Digital Marketing Services)

Jake Rooney

Chief Operating Officer (SaaS)

Patricia Fors

Chief People Officer

Søren Kristensen

Chief Technology Officer

Daniel Dixon

Chief Information Officer

Marcel Chorengel

Chief Architect

1,300 Experts around the World

1,300 experts around the globe, helping every day to support our customers, create the best products, and ensure technical operations. It is this one group of people that makes entrepreneurs winners.

Sustainable Development Report

We tackle global issues. Our mission is to create an inclusive, secure, resilient, and sustainable future for everyone, everywhere. As such, we are releasing our first Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) report. It shares our main 2022 sustainability achievements and our 2023 goals.

Sustainability is paramount for us. As such, 2022 was a significant year where we set ourselves the ambitious goal of becoming a carbon-neutral company by 2040. A critical part of this endeavor is reducing energy consumption where all one.com hosting is powered by renewable energy, and we aim to scale that to all group.one customers soon.

Core Brands 

Recent History

Founded in the early 2000s, group.one can look back on an eventful history. A history of entrepreneurs and makers who have always followed the needs of the market and have thus built up a company that today is as successful as it is unique. 

2023

The new group.one has emerged

group.one and dogado group complete merger and form new entity under combined management, becoming one of the leading European Cloud Hosting Providers. The group's name is: group.one.

ESG Report 2022 released
2022 ESG report for group.one is released. group.one has formulated 9 clear goals with regard to gender equality, work and growth, responsible consumption and production, and climate action.

German customer base grows
Filoo and the hosting division of Cionix (both German) become part of the group. This increases the customer base in the segment of professionals.


2022

dogado group and group.one announce merger 

group.one and dogado group takes a transformative step and announces a merger to create a leading pan-European provider for Hosting, Marketing Services and Software-as-a-service. The two businesses are highly complementary in a number of key areas including geographies, products and capabilities.  Both companies have strong financial track records and expect to benefit from structural growth market trends driven by digitalization of SMEs and complexifying customer expectations around digital marketing.

Entry into Switzerland: Established brand Metanet joins the group

With Metanet, a top hosting brand in Switzerland becomes part of the Group. It is the first local presence in Switzerland. The acquisition of Webstyle adds further professional users to the Swiss customer base. 

one.com celebrates 20-year anniversary

The global brand one.com, which formed the cornerstone of group.one, turns 20. Founders and employees look back on a more than successful development in the hosting market.

Group joins Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact

With the KAMP data center located in Germany, the group becomes a member of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact. Accordingly, the company voluntarily undertakes to have set up its data center in a climate-neutral manner by 2030 and to operate it in an energy-efficient manner from then on.


2021

With Herold acquisition group adds marketing services to its offering

With the acquisition of the successful Austrian brand Herold, the Group adds marketing services to its offering. Customers can now have online presences created and advertised as a service. In Germany, the business is supported by the acquisition of Websitebutler. 

Successful ISO certification for web hosting platform

dogado GmbH has successfully passed the ISO certification for its web hosting product platform. This makes the group.one of the first providers on the German market whose web hosting platform officially meets the high ISO standards. 

Group enters SaaS business after WP Media acquisition

WP Media becomes part of the group. With the acquisition of the successful provider for WordPress plugins (worldwide known plugins like WP Rocket are installed on over 3 million websites), the company adds software-as-a-service as a product line. 


2020

International hosting giants join the group

The group acquires the international hosting giants Hostnet (Netherlands), Profihost (Germany), Zoner Oy (Finnland) and easyname (Austria), thus expanding its customer base. With easyname, Hostnet and Zoner the group is entering new markets with local brands.

With GratisDNS the Group is now the largest registrar of .dk domains

The acquisition of GratisDNS makes the Group the largest registrar of .dk domains.


2019

First acquisition in Norway

Digital Garden (formerly UniWeb and FastName) is the Group's first acquisition in Norway. 

E-commerce expert AIXPRO joins

The established e-commerce company aixpro finds itself under the umbrella of the dogado group. Dogado now offers its customers professional store solutions.

Europe and beyond: 
18 offices around the world.

  • Malmö (SE)
  • Copenhagen (DK)
  • Dortmund (DE)
  • Vienna (AT)
  • Zurich (CH)
  • Amsterdam (NL)
  • Berlin (DE)
  • Cebu (PH)
  • Dresden (DE)
  • Dubai (AE-DU)
  • Enschede (NL)
  • Gurgaon (IN)
  • Halle/Saale (DE)
  • Hanover (DE)
  • Lübeck (DE)
  • Oberhausen (DE)
  • Tonsberg (NO)
  • Vantaa (FI)

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