Category: Industry reports

Verisign processed a record 13.1 million new .com and .net registrations in Q3 2026 and grew its base 6.1%, with AI website tools among the drivers.

Five hosting providers now describe themselves as platforms for running a small business, with builders, shops, bookings and marketing tools next to the server.

Automattic applied for 16 new TLDs, including .wordpress and .matt. Eleven are contested, some by Hostinger, Aruba and Squarespace.

Cloudflare's BEACON puts daily real-user speed data from 10,000 large sites on BigQuery, iPhone traffic included. No site is named.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.