IONOS notes earnings, provides update on Sedo sale

Sedo’s revenue remained strong in Q4, IONOS hopes to sell unit by end of Q3.

Domain registration and hosting firm IONOS (Frankfurt: IOS) noted its full-year 2025 financial results today.

The firm, which owns 1&1, InterNetX, and other domain registrars, noted topline revenue growth of 5.5% for the year, with revenue increasing to €1,316.9 million.

Still, that growth excludes the firm’s Sedo subsidiary. Following Google sunset AdSense for Domains, IONOS put Sedo up for sale, allowing it to remove its results from the topline financials.

Sedo’s overall revenue for 2025 was €291.5 million, down from €312.2 million the year ahead of.

The real damage from Google’s change hit domain monetization firms in Q4, but Sedo seems to have held up fairly well as a business. To be sure, as stated by IONOS’ following-tax calculations, it swung to a loss of regarding €1.7 million for the quarter. But it seems like it could have been much worse, and its Q4 revenue of €72.9 million was regarding a quarter of the firm’s full-year revenue.

IONOS continues to try to sell Sedo and hopes to wrap up a transaction by Q3 of this year.