Acquisitions – Awesome Motive purchases gallery plugins and themes.

10up is a largely WordPress agency with almost 300 employees and over $40 million in revenue. They have merged with Fueled Digital Media, an agency that makes mobile apps for large enterprise clients.

Acquisition news: Cloud hosting company group.one, who owns WP Rocket and Rank Math SEO, acquired the BackWPUp, Adminimize, and Search and Replace plugins.

In acquisition news, Barn2 Plugins purchased the WooCommerce Product Tabs plugin.

Google is getting out of the domain name business and will transfer approximately 10 million domains to Squarespace for management. This is a big boon for Squarespace.

Liquid Web was acquired. That’s a lot of high profile WordPress properties: Liquid Web, Nexcess, StellarWP, Modern Tribe, LearnDash, Kadnece, and others. I didn’t see that coming.

Group.one, the owner of the WordPress optimization plugin WP Rocket, announces the acquisition of the popular SEO Rank Math plugin. Rank Math has more than 2 million active users and is the fastest-growing WordPress SEO plugin.

Recently it was announced that David Vongries was selling the Kirki Customizer Framework. Themeum has stepped up to purchase it. They are the company behind TutorLMS and Qubely.

The founders of Yoast have invested in WPCS, which is a multitenancy, scalable WordPress as a Service or Software as a Service hosting platform. My understanding of how the service works is that your sites share a WordPress files install but each site has a different database.