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Just to set the story straight.

Openhost, Freeparking, Domains4less, Webdrive, Discount Domains, Digiweb WERE all owned by Umbrellar up until late last year. Umbrellar is a NZ company formed when Digiweb brought Webdrive. Umbrellar has data centers in Christchurch and Auckland.

They were sold to Crazy Domains (owned by Dreamscape) at the end of last year.

There are still NZ staff based in Christchurch, Auckland and Palmerston North. All NZ based hosting, email and domain services are currently being migrated to Crazy Domains Australian data centers.

Umbrellar Cloud Hosting is still a NZ company specialising in Azure (yes..yes..the evil Microsoft)


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On Friday, May 21, 2021 9:53 PM, Volker Kuhlmann <list57 at top.geek.nz> wrote:

> On Fri 21 May 2021 20:32:01 NZST +1200, Steve West wrote:
>
> > https://openhost.co.nz/
>
> "Openhost is 100% New Zealand owned and operated."
>
> This would appear to be an outright lie. Maybe somebody forgot to update
> their website.
>
> https://openhost.co.nz/about-us
>
> Openhost | New Zealand
> Auckland | New Plymouth | Christchurch
> T. +64 9 925 5556
> Freeparking Limited T/A Openhost
> ^^^^ Freeparking trading as Openhost
> (CRN: 2227394 | NZBN: 9429032313628)
> A division of Dreamscape Networks
>
> All owned by Dreamscape Networks, "locally managed in New Zealand by
> Freeparking" is just a joke when Dreamscape owns all your personal
> information and they're just using overseas infrastructure.
>
> Volker
>
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> Volker Kuhlmann
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