Author: Natalia Nowak

Leaseweb's August VPS increase falls hardest on the cheapest plans, the US entry nearly doubling while premium tiers barely move.

Thirty deals in six months: the full H1 2026 hosting M&A map, the multiples behind it, and the debt clocks that decide who transacts in H2.

Freenom, once the internet's biggest source of free phishing domains, has quietly returned, now charging money, two years after Meta sued it into retreat.

Google switched off AdSense for Domains, and the quiet ad business behind millions of parked domains ended with it. The traffic moved somewhere riskier.

Verisign spent a decade and $135 million to win .web. Unlike its government-capped .com, it can price the new domain however it wants.

A new campaign uses GitHub's own build servers to hunt cPanel and WHM servers still exposed to CVE-2026-41940, and steal their secrets.

The omnibus delayed the AI Act's high-risk regime, not August 2. GPAI fines and transparency duties still arrive on schedule. Hosting's map of who owes what.

Drone strikes and fire have kept an AWS cloud region offline for months. The cloud has a physical address, and choosing a region carries real risk.

From September 1, every .ru owner must prove their identity to the Russian government or lose the domain. A reminder that a country code answers to its government.

WordPress did the rare thing and forced a core security fix to millions of sites. Within 72 hours the break-ins started anyway. The gap is the story.