Author: Łukasz Nowak

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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 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 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.