WordCamp US 2025: predictions and bold speculations

Tomorrow, August 26, 2025, marks the start of WordCamp US 2025 — the biggest event for the WordPress community, running through August 29 in Portland....

Hosting.fr acquires Netim’s hosting clients – another step in the consolidation of the European hosting market.

Hosting.fr, part of the German group hosting.de, has announced the acquisition of the French domain registrar Netim.com. This move marks another example of the ongoing consolidation in the European hosting and domain registration market.

Top 10 presentations at WordCamp US 2025

WordCamp US 2025 is the largest conference in the United States dedicated to WordPress — one of the world’s most popular platforms for building websites and blogs. The event will take place from August 26 to 29, 2025, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.

Cloudways Copilot: AI in hosting management moves beyond the buzz

Is AI finally ready to make hosting management less about firefighting and more about prevention? Cloudways, part of DigitalOcean, is betting on it. Today, the...

Radix picks Tucows as its new back-end registry services provider

In November 2025, Radix will move its entire portfolio of domain extensions from Team Internet, formerly known as CentralNic, to Tucows Registry. This is not a small adjustment in the background. It involves around ten million domain names across eleven TLDs, including .online, .store, .tech, .site, .fun, .host, .press, .space, .uno, .website.

We’ve got 371 million domains now!

We’ve officially crossed the 371-million mark in domain registrations worldwide, and no one’s entirely sure whether we should be impressed… or concerned. According to latest Domain Name Industry Brief (Q2 2025), the internet is growing in a way that’s both predictable and increasingly chaotic.

cyber_Folks acquires Hosterion, eyes further growth in CEE

Polish hosting and tech company cyber_Folks has announced the acquisition of Hosterion, a Romanian web hosting provider. The transaction is worth €6.7 million (around 29 million PLN), with €5.5 million already paid and two remaining payments of €600,000 each scheduled over the next year.

Team Internet wins control of Colombia’s .CO domain – GoDaddy out

After years of handling the .CO domain, GoDaddy has lost its role as the official registry. A new partnership, called Consórcio Equipo PuntoCo, made up of Germany’s Team Internet and Colombia’s Central Comercializadora de Internet (CCI), has won the contract to operate Colombia’s country-code top-level domain (ccTLD), .CO, for the next ten years.

AEserver celebrates 20 years of service in the UAE and beyond

AEserver, one of the UAE’s earliest web hosting and domain name providers, is celebrating its 20th anniversary - a rare milestone in the fast-moving tech world. Founded in 2005 by Munir Badr, AEserver began with a clear purpose: to make it easier for people and businesses in the UAE to register domains and host websites.

Linux Foundation launches FAIR, open source WordPress repository project

The Linux Foundation has just announced something big for WordPress users and developers - the FAIR Package Manager project. This new tool promises to change the way plugins and themes are shared and updated, making the WordPress ecosystem more stable, secure, and open.