Author: Natalia Nowak
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Exploring the web hosting industry through writing - panels, providers, and everything that runs behind the scenes.
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Elementor Opens an MCP Beta to Claude, Codex and Cursor
AI tools can build and edit pages as native, editable Elementor structures. Atomic pages only, and everything lands as a draft.
Security
Ten IP Addresses Sent at Least 94,000 Attempts to Exploit a WooCommerce Plugin.
Six months after disclosure, a WooCommerce extension is still drawing blocked exploit attempts. The largest spike came on August 30.
Industry reports
We Ranked Hosting Two Ways. We Resolved 108 GoDaddy Domains: 96 Point at Amazon.
Our hosting count records whose address space a site is served from. We sampled GoDaddy's domains and most of them resolve into Amazon's.
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auDA Backs Removing a .com.au Allocation Route. Domain Monetization Stays Allowed.
auDA's board backed removing a .com.au allocation route in principle, while approving no change to the rules that allow domain monetization.
Security
EU Software Makers Now Have 24 Hours to Report an Exploited Flaw.
The EU now requires software makers to report actively exploited flaws within 24 hours, and a GPL plugin with a paid tier counts as a product.
Stock reports
IONOS Is Cutting 12% of Its Workforce Five Weeks After Raising Its Revenue Outlook.
IONOS will cut about 450 roles, around 12% of its workforce, five weeks after raising its revenue growth forecast for 2026.
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group.one’s Ask Aida Completed 95% of Tasks in Customer Testing. Three Areas Still Required Human Support.
group.one's Ask Aida completed 95% of tasks in initial customer testing. Three areas still required human support.
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Cloudflare Changes Its Crawler Defaults on September 15. Sites Blocking AI Training Will Start Blocking Googlebot.
Cloudflare changes its AI crawler defaults on September 15. Sites that already block training will start blocking Googlebot, Applebot and BingBot.
Partners
Monarx Launches Dark Web Monitoring. One Domain Covers Every Address on It.
Monarx has launched a white-label dark web monitoring service for hosts. It starts from a domain and shows the categories of breached data, not the values.
Other
Aruba Applied for 39 TLD Strings. The Private Auction That Won It .cloud Is Now Banned.
Aruba applied for 39 TLD strings, including vps and a set of Italian picks. The private auction that won it .cloud in the 2012 round is now banned.
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