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Newfold Digital owns the front door
Bluehost, HostGator, Network Solutions, and Yoast look like separate stops on the internet. Their shared parent is betting that a small business would rather have fewer technical problems than more software choices.
Newfold Digital has plenty of brands. Now it needs fewer exits.
The company behind Bluehost, Network Solutions and Yoast made a business of putting small businesses online. Its next test is giving them enough reason to stay.
Sachin Puri
Sachin Puri is the Chief Executive Officer of Bluehost Group (Newfold Digital), the umbrella that houses Bluehost, HostGator, Yoast, and YITH. An IIT Kanpur engineer with a Michigan Ross MBA, he spent two decades marketing and operating high-growth SaaS, security, and commerce brands - WP Engine, McAfee, StubHub, eBay, HP, Liquid Web - before taking the corner office in May 2025 with a mandate to rebuild the open web for the AI era.