Author: Natalia Nowak

OpusDNS acquired fruits.co, bundling wholesale domain registration with EU VAT-compliant aftermarket sales. A clean-build challenger to Tucows OpenSRS

The November 2026 .com price hike is the first of four annual increases Verisign can take through 2029. Wholesale could reach $13.45.

WordPress 7.0 ships today. PHP 7.4 is now the minimum. AI integration lands in core. Real-time collaboration was pulled from the build on May 8.

Google Cloud incorrectly suspended Railway's account on May 19, 2026. Eight hours offline, despite AWS and Railway Metal workloads running throughout.

Plesk 18.0.77 brings accessibility compliance, new SSL tooling, and APS Catalog removal. Pricing is up 26 percent since January. AI Copilot has no ship date.

AdminBolt is currently the only self-hosted control panel to ship a working in-panel AI assistant, with WhatsApp as a mobile extension.

iomart's revenue grew 25% and its EBITDA fell 24%. The gap between those two numbers explains the structural problem facing mid-market hosting in 2026.

A FunnelKit vulnerability is being actively exploited to steal card data from WooCommerce checkouts. Every customer who paid on a compromised store is affected. Patch to 3.15.0.3 now.

4VPS was breached on May 2. Two days later, The Gentlemen ransomware group's backend was leaked, exposing victim lists, ransom negotiations, and attack tooling

Skynethosting took its entire cPanel fleet offline on May 1 in response to CVE-2026-41940, and as of May 14 some customer servers had been down for nearly two weeks, with one reseller publicly reporting a 30 percent client loss during the outage.