What hosting providers are saying about cPanel in early 2026

A recent thread on WebHostingTalk – “A personal and honest perspective on cPanel – beyond pricing complaints” – triggered a long discussion among hosting operators...

1 million registrations of .ai domains – 20× increase over 5.5 years

.ai country-code domain needed roughly five years to scale from ~40,000 registrations in early 2020 to over 1M in early 2026. This TLD, managed by...

Shared hosting in 2025 – a year of stress tests, signals and structural change

If 2024 was about post‑COVID normalization, 2025 was about pressure - on margins, positioning, and on the long‑term credibility of the traditional shared hosting model. ...

Automattic and Wayback Machine teamed up to launch Link Fixer 

TL;DR - new WordPress connects websites through API with the Internet Archive. When an outbound link dies, instead of 404s, users are redirected to an...

Have you paid for your open source last year? team.blue did

PHP runs most of the web, and WordPress alone powers over 40% of it. The PHP Foundation’s annual budget is under $1 million and team.blue...

4.67 million new .com domains registered in 2025 according to new Namecheap’s domain insights

Newest Namecheap Domain Insights & Trends Report included registrations comparison of 2024 vs 2025, with trends and signals for 2026. The dataset is based on...

Lost case – Monaco.com will not belong to Monako

The Government of Monaco lost an attempt to seize Monaco.com from a private owner using UDRP. This was proof that governments do not automatically control...

UK2 Group has joined Your.Online

TL;DR – this adds another established UK hosting platform to the group. No product changes were announced. The deal fits Your.Online’s ongoing UK consolidation pattern....

EuroDNS updated its prices for 29 domains, including .ai and .health, after registry changes.

EuroDNS published a new price update on 29 January 2026, covering more than 30 TLDs with higher retail prices.The changes are passed through by EuroDNS...

S&P Global believes that Newfold lost over 1 million subscribers (roughly 17%) since 2023

On January 26, 2026 S&P Global, one of the three largest rating agencies in the world, published its latest report on Newfold Digital: “Upgraded To...