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Security
India’s .bank.in Trust Domain Leaked the Data of the People Who Run It
by Natalia Nowak · 3 Jul 2026
India's .bank.in namespace was RBI's trust badge against banking phishing. Its registrar, IDRBT, left 33+ unauthenticated APIs exposing bcrypt hashes, emails, phone numbers and device fingerprints of 5,576 domain admins for 13 months. It was fixed in June 2026, with no confirmed exploitation.
Other
UpCloud’s Founder Becomes CEO After a 15-Month Outside Hire
by Natalia Nowak · 3 Jul 2026
UpCloud has named founder Joel Pihlajamaa as chief executive, ending Arno Schäfer's roughly 15-month tenure and putting the Helsinki cloud provider under founder-led leadership. The company frames it as a natural evolution and a signal that its sovereign, engineering-led strategy stays the course.
M&A
Automattic Has Taken Over WebHosting.com. The Plan Is Still a Coming-Soon Page.
by Natalia Nowak · 3 Jul 2026
WebHosting.com, a premium one-word .com long dormant under AT&T, now resolves to an Automattic-branded "coming soon" page, confirming the WordPress parent controls it. There is no announcement, price, or stated plan. The move fits Automattic's broader hosting push, but its plans are unconfirmed.
Events
CloudFest Americas Takes Shape: Miami’s Speakers and Themes So Far
by Natalia Nowak · 2 Jul 2026
CloudFest Americas lands at Miami's Ice Palace Studios on November 11-12, 2026, the Americas edition of Europe's flagship cloud festival. Organizers expect 2,000+ attendees across keynotes, roundtables and a NamesCon co-location, with a five-theme program spanning AI, security and growth.
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You Don’t Own Your .io or .ai. You Rent a Country’s Politics.
by Łukasz Nowak · 2 Jul 2026
RFC 1591 says a country-code domain is held in trust, not owned. Build a brand or infrastructure on .io, .ai, or .ly and you rent a foreign government's politics, with a retirement mechanism, seizures, and price ratchets to prove it. The .io Chagos scare was a reprieve, not a resolution.
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Meet the New webhosting.today: The Hosting Market Now Has a Scoreboard
by Łukasz Nowak · 2 Jul 2026
The new webhosting.today is live. Market Insights resolves 400M domains and fingerprints 24M hosting IPs monthly, profiling 3,400+ operators across 110+ countries, down to which competitors each host wins and loses domains to. Free to browse; registration opens the full engine.
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