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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Identity Digital Takes .us From GoDaddy. The Registry Is Down 24 Percent in a Year.
NTIA handed .us to Identity Digital on October 1. The registry fell 24 percent in a year to 1.86 million names, though July new registrations were up.
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Namecheap Let a Sued Domain Expire and Be Re-Registered. A Judge Wants to Know Why.
A judge found ample evidence that Namecheap breached the ACPA by letting a sued domain expire and re-registering it. Its answer is due October 12.
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ESA Picks OVHcloud and CGI for Digital EO. The Size Is Not Public.
OVHcloud and CGI won a 30-month ESA contract to help build Europe's Earth observation platform. The capacity and the price are both undisclosed.
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Registrar Number 130 Has Three Weeks to Cure. The Fee File Opened in 2021.
ICANN gave Netpia, IANA registrar 130, until October 16 to pay its fees and fix its RDAP service. The fee file has been open since January 2021.
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PanelAlpha to Become the Easiest Way to Host on a VPS With Engine Now Open Source
PanelAlpha has open-sourced Engine 2.0 as the first step in a broader mission to make self-hosting simpler. The new engine expands beyond WordPress, supporting more types of projects while giving users an easier way to deploy and manage them on their own VPS.
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Fourteen Ukrainian Operators Hit in Twelve Days. Moscow Says Data Centers Are the Target.
Russia's defense ministry says it is striking data centers. At least fourteen named Ukrainian operators reported damage in the twelve days to September 27.
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The WordPress 7.1.2 Flaw Was Exploited in Hours. Theme and Host Decide the Damage.
The flaw WordPress patched in 7.1.2 was under attack the day the fix shipped and is on CISA's KEV list. Code execution needs two host-side conditions.
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Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
A judge revived WP Engine's antitrust claims and held that Automattic and Mullenweg cannot bring trademark counterclaims in their own name.
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DropCatch Added 300 Registrars. It Now Holds 45 Percent of All ICANN Accreditations.
ICANN approved 300 more DropCatch shell registrars this month. One company now holds 1,501 of 3,321 accreditations, and the registrar count means less.
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HostPapa Bought Ingram Micro’s CloudBlue. A Year Later the Group Is Called Managed.com.
Managed.com launched on September 17 above HostPapa, ColoCrossing, Hostopia, CloudBlue and LogoMaker, a group built on more than twenty acquisitions.
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