Download websites that use Hostgator

About Hostgator

A brand on a hosting bill is not the same thing as a company. Hostgator is one of several hosting labels operated by Newfold Digital, and the labels share more infrastructure than their separate websites suggest. Anyone reading this record as a competitive map should start there, because the name identifies an acquisition channel and a support brand rather than a distinct technical platform, and sibling brands sold under other names may sit on the same machines.

The customer is the more informative part of the record. Shared hosting under a consumer brand is bought by small businesses, local trades, restaurants, clubs, first-time site owners and people who wanted an address for a project. The buyer is usually not technical, did not compare alternatives on performance, and chose on price and name recognition. Presence therefore describes the owner of the site far more accurately than it describes the site technology, which is unusual in a technographic dataset and is precisely what makes the segment commercially legible.

What follows is a well-defined population. A domain here typically runs a control panel installation of a common content management system, was set up once and left alone, has no in-house developer, and is paying a recurring bill somebody in the business notices. For a web services agency, a site care provider, a migration offer or a local marketing seller, that is a qualified lead by definition. For a security vendor it is a population with a known patching problem. For a competitor it is a customer base with low switching cost and no engineering attachment to the platform.

As of September 2026 we associate Hostgator with 1,335,959 sites. United States accounts for 735,073 of them and the suffix mix leans toward .com, which fits a brand built on a domestic small business market and a generic commercial namespace. Founded in 2002 and absorbed into a larger group later, the brand has outlived more than one ownership change while its customers stayed put, which is why the label persists in the data long after the corporate structure behind it stopped matching it.

Identification comes from name servers, address ranges, control panel artifacts and default pages. Each of those has failure modes. A domain behind a content delivery network hides its origin entirely. Shared address space means attribution lands on the provider rather than on a specific account. Parked domains, expired projects and redirects that still resolve inflate any count drawn this way, and a shared host is where abandoned sites go to sit quietly for years. The number should be read as domains associated with the provider, not as active businesses.

A lookup on one domain confirms where one site is hosted. The downloadable file answers the questions a sales or research team actually has. How many small business sites in a given country sit on one provider, what they are built with, which suffixes they use, and how the population moves between snapshots as brands consolidate and customers churn. Those are counting questions, and counting requires the whole list rather than a query box.