The Rise of Revenue-First Operations

As budgets tighten and talent costs rise, digital agencies are adopting revenue-first operations to scale profitably. White label partners like Seahawk Media enable agencies to improve delivery efficiency, protect margins, and grow without expanding headcount.

Verisign May Regain the Option to Raise .com Prices in 2026

Verisign may again be able to raise wholesale prices for .com domains in late 2026, despite earlier assumptions that such an increase would not be permitted during that year. A closer reading of the company’s contractual framework suggests that the timing of past price increases has blurred how the pricing rules actually work.

The hosting market is entering a bot-first reality – key takeaways from WP Engine’s 2025 traffic report

WP Engine has released its 2025 Website Traffic Trends Report, based on first-party data and external sources like Google CrUX and Cloudflare. This is not another vision piece. It is a snapshot of what is already happening on production websites — at scale.

Bluehost makes a clear move toward AI leadership

In the hosting industry, executive changes often signal more than just a new name on the org chart. This week, Bluehost made such a move by appointing Antonis Papatsaras as its new Chief Technology Officer. This is not a symbolic hire. It is a strategic one. Bluehost is openly positioning itself as an AI-first platform.

SiteGround introduces Coderick AI

SiteGround has announced a new product called Coderick AI, and this move is worth the attention of anyone involved in the hosting business. This is not just another website builder or an AI feature added to an existing control panel. SiteGround is clearly positioning itself beyond traditional hosting by offering a full build–launch–host workflow.

GoDaddy Launches ANS Marketplace

GoDaddy has unveiled the ANS Marketplace, positioning itself at the center of a fast-emerging trend: AI agents as first-class citizens of the internet. While the announcement is framed around trust and security for AI, its implications go much deeper — especially for the web hosting industry.

Newfold Digital Takes Another $100 Million — Not a Bet on Growth, but on Time

For a company of Newfold Digital’s size, raising another $100 million is not a sign of aggression. It is a sign of pressure. Based on the documents released this week, Newfold Digital has secured $100 million in new financing from its existing owners, Clearlake Capital Group and Siris Capital Group. The money is positioned as a recapitalization.

Memory market alert: hosting industry on the brink of revolution

In early December 2025, Micron announced a shockwave in the hardware world: the company is officially exiting the consumer memory business — i.e. it will stop selling RAM, SSD and other memory/storage products under its once-ubiquitous Crucial label.

State of the Word 2025 Recap

The 2025 edition of State of the Word wrapped this week in San Francisco, and for the first time, the keynote synced with a major WordPress release. That’s right. WordPress 6.9 dropped live during the event, adding a dose of adrenaline that no blog post could replicate.

Critical Grafana Enterprise SCIM Flaw Hits Hosting Providers: Why Staying Updated Matters

Grafana has released a set of emergency security patches after discovering a critical vulnerability in its Enterprise editions. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-41115, carries the maximum CVSS score of 10.0 and affects environments where the SCIM feature is enabled and used for automated user provisioning.