We Audited the AI-Crawl Posture of Hosting Companies. Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes.

We audited 736 hosting and infrastructure companies: 90% of the measurable declare no AI-crawler policy. The 58 that do reveal five strategies.

Elementor on Hosting: Your Stack, Your Choice – Gabriella Laster, Product Marketing Director at Elementor

Gabriella Laster of Elementor on why the new hosting product is an option not a lock-in, and how Angie integrates with the WordPress Abilities API.

While the Industry Raised Prices, a Few Hosts Promised Never To. Regulation Just Made That a Strategy.

A few hosts promised never to raise renewal prices, through the worst hardware inflation in a decade. New renewal laws just turned that into strategy.

Hostinger Promotes Its Product and Technology Chief to CEO as AI Becomes the Business

Hostinger promoted product and technology chief Giedrius Zakaitis to CEO, with Daugirdas Jankus moving to strategic initiatives.

We All Need to Start Building More, and Faster – Artur Grabowski, Co-Founder at Extendify

Artur Grabowski, Co-Founder at Extendify, on why the WordPress community and hosting companies need to build faster - and why Extendify will never sell hosting.

ICANN Meets June 8. One Proposal Could Force Registrars to Investigate Every Customer Tied to a Single Abuse Report.

ICANN is debating a rule that would require registrars to investigate every domain from a customer when one is flagged for abuse. Seville (June 8-11) is where that debate begins in earnest. The gTLD window closes August 12.

SoftBank Pledged €75 Billion to Build AI Data Centers in France.

SoftBank's €45B firm commitment and €75B ceiling for AI data centers in France drove Choose France 2026 to a record €93B total. France's nuclear grid is the structural advantage. SoftBank's balance sheet is the open question.

A Database Allegedly From Home.pl Is Being Advertised on a Cybercrime Forum.

A dataset allegedly from Home.pl, Poland's largest hosting provider, is being advertised on a cybercrime forum. We analyze the schema and what it means for 300,000+ customers.

your.online Acquires Sansec, Adding E-Commerce Security to a 60-Acquisition Group

your.online has acquired Sansec, a Magento and WooCommerce security company, marking the Dutch hosting group's first move into specialist e-commerce security tooling.

Fragnesia: A New Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation That Emerged From Prior Kernel Patches

William Bowling of V12 Security disclosed Fragnesia on May 13, 2026, a Linux kernel privilege escalation that allows an unprivileged local attacker to reach root by corrupting the kernel page cache through the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem.