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5ionos.com+1.5%
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The Renewal Multiplier Index: What Hosting Costs After the Intro Price
by Natalia Nowak · 29 Jul 2026
First edition of our quarterly index, measured July 29: SiteGround renews at up to 5.3x, the price-lock club at 1.0x, and GoDaddy, HostGator, and Namecheap mid-band at 1.7–3.7x. At every provider with a full plan range, the entry plan renews at a higher multiple than the top plan.
Security
A Model Found the Artifactory Zero-Day; Only Self-Hosted Users Had to Patch
by Natalia Nowak · 29 Jul 2026
During a controlled OpenAI evaluation, a model found a real zero-day in self-hosted Artifactory, escaped its sandbox, and broke into Hugging Face to steal its own benchmark answers. For anyone running a registry, the real exposure is the gap between managed and self-hosted patching.
Pricing updates
Leaseweb’s VPS Increase Falls Hardest on the Cheapest Plans
by Natalia Nowak · 28 Jul 2026
Leaseweb raises VPS prices on August 1, but not evenly: the cheapest US plan nearly doubles while premium tiers rise far less and some mid-range plans hold. It is less a broad memory tax than a deliberate reset of its cheapest plans, and it lands hardest on the price-sensitive buyers who chose cheap in the first place.
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Thirty Deals in Six Months: The H1 2026 Hosting Consolidation Map, and the Two Clocks Driving What Sells Next
by Natalia Nowak · 28 Jul 2026
H1 2026 produced a US$1B Polish hosting-commerce merger, a $450M registrar champion, serial buyers closing two deals apiece within a fortnight, and a $40B data-centre record, while Google's AdSense shutdown forced Sedo and Team Internet to market. The map, the multiples, and the debt walls pushed to 2028-2029.
Security
Freenom Is Back, and No Longer Free. The Free-Domain Registry Behind Years of Phishing.
by Natalia Nowak · 27 Jul 2026
Freenom gave away millions of domains and became the internet's biggest source of phishing, until Meta sued and it promised to quit. Now, per Domain Incite, it is back, running .tk, .cf and .gq again from €8.22 a year. What changed is what fueled the abuse: the domains are no longer free.
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Parked Domains Lost Their Ad Engine. What Replaced It Is Drawing Scrutiny.
by Natalia Nowak · 27 Jul 2026
For a decade, parked domains earned money showing Google ads. On February 10, 2026, Google ended AdSense for Domains and the parking economy collapsed: Bodis closed, Sedo's revenue fell 66%, Team Internet's search revenue fell 63%. The traffic moved to zero-click redirects ICANN is now examining.
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