The WTO’s 28-Year Ban on Digital Customs Duties Has Lapsed

The WTO's 28-year moratorium on customs duties for digital transmissions lapsed on March 30 after MC14 in Yaoundé ended without a deal.

PrestaShop Announced a Formal Layoff Process Eight Weeks After Cyber_Folks Completed Its Acquisition

PrestaShop opened a formal French layoff process on April 10, eight weeks after Cyber_Folks completed its €53.7 million acquisition of the platform.

Cloudflare’s April 9: Outage, $33 Million CEO Sale, and Anthropic. The Stock Fell 11 Percent.

Cloudflare fell 11% on April 9 as Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents threatened the infrastructure layer Cloudflare spent two years building.

Virginia Democrats Cannot Agree on a $1.6 Billion Data Center Tax Exemption. A Special Session on April 23 Will Decide It.

Virginia Democrats are deadlocked over their $1.6 billion data center tax exemption, with a budget-blocking special session set for April 23.

GDPR Fines Are Now Landing on Hosting Companies Directly. Two Cases From 2025 Establish the Precedent.

In 2025, GDPR regulators fined two data processors directly for the first time. Hosting companies processing EU customer data are now in scope.

CloudFest Americas and i2Coalition Partner for November Miami Event

CloudFest Americas and i2Coalition announced a formal partnership on April 9, making i2Coalition the Official Conference Partner of CloudFest Americas in North America and naming i2Coalition Executive Director Christian Dawson as Chief Evangelist of the event.

The 2025 Domain Registrar Rankings Are In. GoDaddy Lost a Million Domains Net. Namecheap, Cloudflare, and Hostinger Won.

Full-year 2025 .com domain data shows GoDaddy registering 7.9 million new domains but finishing with roughly 1 million fewer under management than it started with. Namecheap gained approximately 1.9 million, the largest gain of any registrar.

Up to Half of US Data Centers Planned for 2026 Will Not Be Built on Time. Chinese Electrical Equipment Is the Constraint No One Planned For.

Colocation vacancy in the Americas ended 2025 at 4.2 percent, near historical lows, and the supply that was supposed to relieve it is not arriving. Sightline Climate estimates 30 to 50 percent of the 2026 US data center pipeline will be delayed or canceled, with only 5 GW of the 12 to 16 GW planned actually under construction.

WordPress 7.0 Is Delayed. Here Is What Hosting Companies Need to Do Before the Release Date Is Confirmed.

WordPress 7.0 missed its April 9 release date and a new schedule will be announced by April 22. Hosting companies have a narrow window to prepare before the release date is confirmed.

IONOS Is Selling Sedo. The Pricing Problem Is Separating Two Very Different Assets.

IONOS wants to sell Sedo by Q3 2026, but the business that made Sedo worth €312 million in revenue two years ago effectively ended when Google shut down AdSense for Domains, causing a 66% single-quarter revenue collapse in Q3 2025.