Author: Natalia Nowak
179 articles
Exploring the web hosting industry through writing - panels, providers, and everything that runs behind the scenes.
Stock reports
GoDaddy Is Sued Over the .com Promotion That Worked Too Well
GoDaddy's discounted one-year .com pulled its domain count back into growth and cut quarterly bookings growth from 9.1% to 5%. Investors have now sued.
Pricing updates
Clientexec Will Enforce Its Update Window, and the First Upgrade Is the One That Fails
Clientexec will enforce the update window sold with Owned Licenses from version 7.2.1, and the first upgrade is the one that fails.
Industry reports
GoDaddy Launches Node.js Hosting, and Publishes the Rules Apps Must Follow
GoDaddy added Node.js hosting to its Web Hosting plans, and published a deploy contract stating what an app must do to run.
Security
Researchers Found Six Major CDNs Vulnerable to New HTTP/3 Attacks. Two Deployed Mitigations.
ix major CDNs amplify attacker traffic toward the sites they front. Two have deployed mitigations, four are still discussing it.
Security
Forminator’s 9.8 Flaw, and Eleven More Fixes in Nineteen Days
Forminator's 9.8 file upload flaw was patched seventeen days before it went public, and the changelog shows eleven more fixes around it.
Industry reports
Namecheap Wants 40 Top-Level Domains, and 15 Overlap With Rival Portfolios
Namecheap applied for 40 top-level domains through Starlight Registry. We checked the contention flags against the rivals' own lists.
Industry reports
Telegram Applies for .gram After a Sanctions Listing Took Down t.me
Telegram has applied for .gram, five weeks after a sanctions listing took t.me offline. Another applicant wants the same string.
Industry reports
my.host Expands Into Europe From a Market With No Dominant Provider
my.host is expanding beyond the Netherlands, out of a home market where the largest provider holds just 12.6 percent.
Events
BalticNOG 2026: What the Baltic Network Operators Meeting in Riga Means for Hosting Providers
The second BalticNOG runs September 23 and 24 in Riga. Its organizer is an IPv4 leasing marketplace, and sponsors include Hostinger, Cherry Servers and DE-CIX.
Industry reports
Cloudflare Is in Every Market We Track. It Leads Fewer Than Half of Them.
Cloudflare is in the top eight in all 115 markets we track, yet leads only 46, and a narrow-footprint provider comes first in 43.
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