ICANN's study group concluded that blockchain naming can integrate with the DNS root, but only if the same string stays under the same owner in both systems. Days before the deadline, ENS reorganized into a foundation to pursue .ens as a closed brand domain, with the earliest launch in 2028.
WordPress 7.0.4 closes CVE-2026-65640, present since version 4.7: a file named .png that hides PostScript could reach ImageMagick and Ghostscript and run code on the server. It needs an author account, but XML-RPC skips the upload check, so multi-author and membership sites should update first.
Domain Summit Europe 2026 opens August 16 in Kempten, Germany, capping attendance at 60 invited delegates. Three of our experts, Frederick Schiwek, Michiel Grotenhuis and Daniel Stanica, join two days of executive sessions on European hosting and domains, August 17-18.
We pulled real-user Core Web Vitals for two dozen platforms from Google's field data. Closed builders beat premium hosts, sister brands differ by 21 points, HostGator anchors the bottom, and the developer clouds fail on responsiveness. Speed turns out to be a rankable output.
Metabase's cloud service was breached through a zero-day, and the vendor patched every hosted instance before most customers heard. Self-hosted operators had to find out, patch by hand and hunt for evidence. Five customers came forward in four days, and about 2,500 instances remain visible online.
Consolidation is not one strategy. Some groups buy scale and run three brands, others buy presence and run forty-one, and the gap between them is about 150 to 1. Meanwhile six in ten tracked domains still sit outside every group we track.
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