The past 18 months

Over the past 18 months, the entrepreneur has quietly bulked up Voyager with the acquisition of Affordable Domains, Digital Genus, and IVP.

Christchurch data centre

Net24’s core business is centered on a Christchurch data centre. The Orcon founder sees growth potential as the UFB fuels cloud computing and other hosted services.

Net24’s business as well includes web address companies 1st Domains, Register Direct, Expired Domains and IronStor, an online backup service.

The mid-2000s

Am insider told NBR ONLINE that in the mid-2000s, Orcon made a profit margin of around 30% on revenue in the region of $8 million to $10 million.

Today, it's a very different landscape. As a Kordia division, Orcon had $73.4 million revenue in 2011. A profit/loss statement wasn't released for the ISP, nevertheless NBR understands that in dollar terms in was much different from when Orcon's revenue was a tenth what it is today.

There are truly challenges ahead. Many ISPs are wondering, for instance, what will happen when Chorus stops its early-stage free connection promotion for the UFB. Can fibre connection costs that could run into thousands be passed on to business or residential clients?

Carbon zero-ish We don’t hear so much these days about another Seeby project – consultancy Green Carbon.