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GoDaddy Launches Node.js Hosting, and Publishes the Rules Apps Must Follow
by Natalia Nowak · 21 Aug 2026
GoDaddy's Node.js Hosting runs applications as persistent processes on plans that already exist, at a flat price. Its published deploy contract sets the limits that decide fit: outbound traffic on ports 80 and 443 only, no external databases, and no outbound SMTP.
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Researchers Found Six Major CDNs Vulnerable to New HTTP/3 Attacks. Two Deployed Mitigations.
by Natalia Nowak · 21 Aug 2026
New research turns a CDN against the site behind it by exploiting the gap between HTTP/3 at the front and HTTP/1.1 at the back. All six CDNs tested were vulnerable, only Baidu and Tencent have deployed mitigations, and every proposed fix sits at the CDN rather than at the site.
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Forminator’s 9.8 Flaw, and Eleven More Fixes in Nineteen Days
by Natalia Nowak · 20 Aug 2026
Forminator's file upload flaw scores 9.8 and needs no authentication, but it takes a form with both an upload and a select field, and the default .htaccess meant to stop execution does nothing on NGINX. The changelog records twelve security releases in nineteen days.
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Namecheap Wants 40 Top-Level Domains, and 15 Overlap With Rival Portfolios
by Natalia Nowak · 20 Aug 2026
The second-largest registrar is moving up the chain with 40 top-level domain applications. Fifteen of them overlap with portfolios published by rival applicants, though two of those rivals filed more than three hundred strings each, which is most of the explanation.
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Telegram Applies for .gram After a Sanctions Listing Took Down t.me
by Natalia Nowak · 19 Aug 2026
A single Telegram channel address in a US sanctions filing took the whole of t.me offline for nineteen hours. Telegram's answer is to apply for its own top-level domain, but a registry contract does not move a company out of the jurisdiction that caused the outage.
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my.host Expands Into Europe From a Market With No Dominant Provider
by Natalia Nowak · 19 Aug 2026
The Dutch host has launched an English site and will add European data centers. The Netherlands is the eleventh most fragmented market we track and its leader holds 12.6 percent, so a challenger there has no dominant incumbent to displace.
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