Author: Natalia Nowak

On May 5, a defect in DENIC's newly deployed signing infrastructure made Amazon.de, DHL, Bahn.de, and hundreds of thousands of other .de domains unreachable for three hours. Servers were running. Monitoring showed green. The fix came from Cloudflare, not DENIC.

GoDaddy is now at the center of two AI agent identity initiatives: a Cloudflare product partnership and a 30-company HOL standards consortium. DNS is becoming the address book for AI agents, and the registrar is positioned to be the gatekeeper.

Akamai signed a $1.8B AI compute contract and surged 26% after earnings. Cloudflare beat estimates and fell roughly 16% on layoffs and a Q2 guidance miss. Same night, same market, opposite verdict on where infrastructure value lies in 2026.

InMotion Hosting and DreamHost both canceled Kenneth Gaughan's hosting for ESApet.org after a competitor filed trademark complaints, despite the DMCA's safe harbor not covering trademark claims, prompting a federal lawsuit filed May 5, 2026.

HostAfrica acquires EvoWeb's hosting division. EvoWeb retains web design and WordPress services and continues to operate independently.

GoDaddy added 13,000 net customers in Q1 2026 on a base of 20.4 million. ARPU grew 9% to $246, free cash flow expanded 15%, and the company is no longer competing hard for new subscribers.

Extendify's Launch AI builds a finished WordPress site before the customer's first login. AutoLaunch delivers it via the hosting provider's own signup flow. Version 3.0 reduces creation to a single prompt.

Apache 2.4.67, released May 4, patches 11 CVEs including a CVSS 8.8 HTTP/2 remote code execution flaw and a shared hosting privilege escalation that lets customers read each other's files.

DigitalOcean launched Inference Engine on April 28 with four AI pricing tiers, Blackwell Ultra hardware in Richmond, and $120M in AI annualized revenue growing 150% year-over-year.

NameSilo posted $65.5M revenue in 2025, up 18.5%, EBITDA up 84%, swung to profit, and its parent is now acquiring robotics firms with domain cash flows.