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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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.
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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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Automattic’s Board Put Matt Mullenweg on Paid Leave. He Still Leads the WordPress Project.
Automattic's board put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave and made CFO Mark Davies interim CEO. No change has been announced to his leadership of WordPress.
Security
A cPanel Account With Mail Privileges Could Reach Root. Every Supported Version Was Affected.
cPanel has patched CVE-2026-67401, a flaw rated 9.9 out of 10 that let an authenticated account with mail privileges run code as root.
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Most of Hostinger’s Hardest Support Cases No Longer Transfer to a Human. The Human Coaches the AI Instead.
Hostinger folded Kodee and its growth agents into Hostinger Agent. On hard cases, specialists now advise the AI, and resolution rose from 41 to 72 percent.
M&A
What Is Your Hosting Business Worth? The Smallest Deals Are Back at 2.0x.
Median private-deal multiples run from 2.0 to 5.8, split across two different earnings measures, and the smallest band is back where it was in 2023.
M&A
Team Internet Still Wants Over $160 Million for Its Domains Business. The Timeline It Set in June Has Passed.
Team Internet still expects over $160 million for its domains division and targets completion around year end, after guiding in June to an early-Q3 outcome.
Industry reports
Non-Developers Are Building Whole Websites With AI. 20i’s Survey Says Only 31.5% Get a Developer’s Review.
Half of the non-developers surveyed had little or no coding experience before AI, and only a quarter of their employers have a formal policy.
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