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Industry reports
PanelAlpha to Become the Easiest Way to Host on a VPS With Engine Now Open Source
by Natalia Nowak · 1 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
PanelAlpha has open-sourced Engine 2.0 as the first step in a broader mission to make self-hosting simpler. The new engine expands beyond WordPress, supporting more types of projects while giving users an easier way to deploy and manage them on their own VPS.
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team.blue Added 600,000 Customers and Still Rounds to 3.3 Million. The Report Says Nothing About the Ones Who Left.
by Łukasz Nowak · 30 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
team.blue's 2025 report shows €866M ARR and 600,000 new customers, yet a total still rounded to 3.3 million, in a foreword by a CEO on his way out.
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DropCatch Added 300 Registrars. It Now Holds 45 Percent of All ICANN Accreditations.
by Natalia Nowak · 28 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
ICANN approved 300 more DropCatch shell registrars this month. One company now holds 1,501 of 3,321 accreditations, and the registrar count means less.
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Newfold Names Sachin Puri CEO From October 1. Sharon Rowlands Stays as Executive Chair.
by Łukasz Nowak · 25 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
Sachin Puri will become CEO of Newfold Digital on October 1, while Sharon Rowlands moves to executive chair. He takes over a group serving around 6 million customers after leading both Bluehost Group and Network Solutions Group.
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Brussels Will Grade Data Centres From A to G on Power and Water.
by Łukasz Nowak · 24 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
The European Commission will grade data centers of 500 kW and up from A to G on power and water use, with the first labels due by August 15, 2027.
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ICANN Confirms 1,616 gTLD Applications Proceed. Reveal Day Expected by October 14.
by Natalia Nowak · 23 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
ICANN confirms 1,616 of 1,663 gTLD applications proceed after payment, with Reveal Day due by October 14 and the exact date still a week away.
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Verisign Will Delete 22,000 .name Domains That Are Paid For. Two Registrants Are Fighting It.
by Łukasz Nowak · 21 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
Verisign has ICANN's permission to delete every third-level .name domain in existence, the john.smith.name form the registry launched with, along with the email forwarding service that let a registrant receive mail at [email protected].
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AWS Cannot Restore Access to Data Kept Only in Bahrain or One UAE Zone
by Natalia Nowak · 17 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
AWS cannot restore access to data hosted exclusively in its Bahrain region, or in one of three UAE zones. Most customers had already moved out.
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We Ranked Hosting Two Ways. We Resolved 108 GoDaddy Domains: 96 Point at Amazon.
by Natalia Nowak · 15 Sep 2026 · 10 min read
Our hosting count records whose address space a site is served from. We sampled GoDaddy's domains and most of them resolve into Amazon's.
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Non-Developers Are Building Whole Websites With AI. 20i’s Survey Says Only 31.5% Get a Developer’s Review.
by Natalia Nowak · 8 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
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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