Meet the New webhosting.today: The Hosting Market Now Has a Scoreboard

Meet the new webhosting.today. On July 1, 2026, we shipped the biggest upgrade in the portal’s two-and-a-half-year history, rebuilt from the ground up around three new pillars: a faster, cleaner homepage with a live market ticker, a new daily Industry Buzz feed, and Market Insights, an original map of the hosting and domain market built by resolving the DNS of some 400 million domains every month, precise enough to show which competitor a single provider is losing domains to, by name. The hosting industry has never been short on claims. Biggest, fastest-growing, market-leading. As of today there is finally an independent place to check them. The reporting, podcast, M&A tracker, job board, and events calendar all stay; everything around them is new, and it all opens free, with no paywall to begin.

In brief

• The portal itself is new: rebuilt homepage leading with the day’s biggest stories, a live market ticker linking straight into company data profiles, faster pages, and a sticky header that keeps every section one click away.
• Market Insights covers 3,400+ operators across 110+ countries and about 200 TLDs, refreshed monthly, with market share, control-panel share, country and TLD breakdowns, and hosting-group structure.
• The engine underneath: roughly 400 million domains resolved and some 24 million hosting IPs fingerprinted every month, eleven control-panel types detected, and every nameserver, mail, and hosting change logged as a move between named operators.
• Company profiles go deep: 30-day domain flows that name which operators a company wins domains from and loses them to, its geographic and TLD mix, its control panel, a similar-companies comparison, and a per-company news feed.
• Industry Buzz is a daily feed that pulls hosting-company posts from social media and RSS and filters them down to the items that actually matter to the industry.
• The public dashboards, profiles, and rankings are free with no paywall; registration opens the full engine, from single-domain lookups to churn analytics and side-by-side provider comparisons.
• The data comes from primary DNS measurement, per the site, rather than from AI aggregators.

The new front door: less magazine, more market terminal

The homepage is the visible part. It now leads with the day’s most significant hosting, cloud, domain, and security stories, keeps a dedicated Web Hosting M&A track easy to find, and carries a live ticker of companies and their recent 30-day movement that links straight into their data profiles. The pages are lighter and the header stays fixed so news, M&A, podcast, jobs, buzz, events, and Market Insights are reachable while scrolling. This is a genuine redesign rather than a reskin, but the homepage is not the reason for the relaunch. The data underneath it is.

Market Insights: every provider, every country, every TLD

Market Insights is the heart of the relaunch. It presents the hosting and domain landscape as a set of browsable dashboards built on primary DNS measurement and refreshed monthly, so the picture moves with the market instead of freezing at a one-off estimate. The hub opens with the month’s headline signals: overall market growth, how many domains were added and how many migrated between operators over the trailing 30 days, the biggest movers in both directions, a curated company spotlight with the basics an analyst reaches for first (founded, headquarters, ownership, primary panel, market rank), and a short market commentary framing the shifts that matter. The specific figures are on the site and change every month; the point is that they are measured on a schedule rather than asserted once.

Underneath, the depth is the story. Each of the 3,400+ company profiles reads like a compact due-diligence brief:

• Domain flows, with names attached. Every profile shows how many domains the company gained and lost over the past 30 days, then goes a step further than any public hosting dataset we know of: it lists which operators those domains came from and where the departing ones went. Churn stops being an anecdote and becomes a table with competitor names in it.
• The anatomy of a footprint. The geographic split of the company’s tracked domains, the TLD composition of its portfolio, and the control panel it runs on, in one view.
• Context built in. A rank against the whole market, a similar-companies panel for instant comparison, and a per-company feed of relevant news and signals.

The same drill-down works along every other axis. Country pages show who leads each of 110+ markets, which groups operate there, and how competitive the geography is. The TLD dashboard ranks about 200 extensions, sortable by domains, share, or operator count, each row opening into its own detail page, with a concentration chart showing how demand clusters at the top. Hosting groups roll brands up to their parent companies, which makes consolidation legible: the share behind familiar names becomes visible at the parent level. A control-panel view tracks how the market splits across cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin etc. And everything cross-links: from a country to the groups operating there, from a group to its brands, from a company back to the markets it competes in, so a question that starts broad can end at a single provider without a dead end on the way.

That is what “checkable” means in practice. Ask who leads a market you are about to enter. Ask which extensions are gaining operators and which are hollowing out. Ask where a rival’s churn actually lands. The answer comes back as a measurement with a date on it, not a vendor slide.

The value of this is not any single number but the cadence. A monthly, consistently measured series lets a reader see direction, which is exactly what one-off vendor claims and AI-generated summaries cannot provide. The trade-off worth naming is that DNS measurement counts domains and where they resolve, which is a strong proxy for footprint but not the same as revenue, customers, or margin. A provider selling a few high-value enterprise contracts will look smaller here than its balance sheet suggests. The data answers “who hosts how many domains, and which way is that moving,” and it is honest about being that rather than a full financial picture.

Industry Buzz: the whole market in a minute a day

Industry Buzz is the second new capability. The feed pulls posts from the social media and RSS channels of hosting companies and software providers, then filters them down to the items that are actually relevant to the industry, organized chronologically with source attribution on each entry. The selection is the point: rather than a raw firehose of every company post, it is a distilled daily read that surfaces the product releases, patches, partnerships, and company news worth knowing, absorbable in about a minute instead of monitoring dozens of separate channels. For anything that warrants more than a headline it links to the source, and the site’s longer reporting is where items that deserve scrutiny get it.

Questions you could not answer yesterday

The dashboards are built to answer questions that used to require a subscription, a survey, or a guess. A hosting buyer or agency can see which providers are gaining or losing ground in a given country or niche before signing. A provider or registrar can compare its footprint to competitors, watch which countries and TLDs are growing fastest, and, for the first time in a public tool, see exactly which rivals its lost domains land with. Investors and M&A teams can see which groups own which brands, where share is concentrating, and which operators show momentum worth a closer look. Journalists and researchers get an independent, primary-sourced dataset with a monthly cadence they can cite and revisit.

On access: the public view is genuinely usable and free. Dashboards, company, country, TLD, and group profiles, rankings, movers, and the monthly signals require no account. The free tier is substantial rather than a teaser. It is also, deliberately, a slice.

Under the hood: the engine is bigger than the site

What the public dashboards show is the visible part of a much larger machine. Every month, the engine behind Market Insights resolves the DNS of roughly 400 million domains and classifies, for each one, who runs its nameservers, who handles its email, and who hosts it: three separate operator calls per domain. It fingerprints some 24 million hosting IPs, detecting eleven control-panel types, from cPanel, Plesk, and DirectAdmin down to ISPmanager, HestiaCP, and CyberPanel. And it keeps the receipts: every nameserver, mail, or hosting change is logged with what changed, when, and which operator the domain moved from and to. That append-only history is what makes the domain-flow tables possible, and it compounds in value with every snapshot.

Registration opens that engine up. The full platform goes where the public slice stops:

• Domain lookup. The complete DNS, hosting, and email footprint of any single domain, with its migration history. Due diligence on one customer, one competitor, one acquisition target.
• Compare. Chosen providers benchmarked side by side on one screen.
• Transitions and churn analysis. Market-wide tables of who gained and lost domains, per period, with inflow and outflow broken down so you see where domains move, not just that they moved.
• Markets the public view does not slice yet. Email-provider share (the Microsoft 365, Google, and Zoho race), panel usage by company and by country, hosting geography by where servers physically sit, and a parking tracker that separates real hosting from parked inventory.
• A print-ready industry report, generated from each monthly snapshot, built to be dropped into a board deck.

For the people the founder describes as living in this data every day, that is the difference between reading the scoreboard and replaying the match.

From the founder

“After 2.5 years, it was time for a serious upgrade at webhosting.today,” co-founder Konrad Keck wrote in announcing the relaunch, introducing the new homepage, Market Insights, and Industry Buzz as its three pillars. He described the result as “a cleaner structure and faster access to what hosting professionals actually need,” and closed with a short promise: “More to come.”

Who funds the independence

Original measurement costs money, and webhosting.today is sponsor-funded rather than pay-to-play. The relaunch names its backers directly: PanelAlpha, NameHero, Extendify, Monarx, Patchstack, Atarim, Termly, Elementor, CPlicense, and MilesWeb. Naming them is the point of disclosure. Sponsorship funds the reporting and the data, and the site’s editorial standard is that statistics come from primary sources and never from AI aggregators. That standard is easy to state and only worth anything if the measurement holds up month to month, which is the test the monthly cadence now invites readers to apply.

The relaunch is a starting point rather than a finished product. The stated plan is to expand Market Insights coverage and history, deepen the registered experience, and keep growing Buzz and the original reporting. The measurable promise in all of it is the one readers can hold the site to: a shared, primary-sourced baseline for the hosting market, refreshed on a schedule, that anyone can check. Hold us to it.