Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.

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Accenture has agreed to acquire Ookla — the company behind Speedtest, Downdetector, Ekahau, and RootMetrics — from Ziff Davis for $1.2 billion in cash. Accenture plans to integrate Ookla's network performance and monitoring data into its offerings for communications providers, hyperscalers, and government clients to optimize Wi-Fi and 5G networks. Additional use cases include AI infrastructure resilience, fraud prevention, and retail analytics. Ookla reported $230.7 million in revenue and $76.1 million net income in 2025, and processes 250 million consumer-initiated tests per month. Ziff Davis originally acquired Ookla in 2014 for just $15 million.

Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service provider Accenture in $1.2B deal

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I give it a couple of months before the enshitification starts, any open API’s get gated, revenue becomes the prime driver over reliability and usability, data privacy goes out the door etc etc…
Pessimistic I know, but looking at history can you blame me?

This is going to be bad for normal users and a big opportunities for a new players to have a open market.
Didn’t know downdetector is from the same provider.