Category: Industry reports

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Industry reports
UK Financial Regulators Now Oversee AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle
by Natalia Nowak · 13 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
From July 13, the Bank of England, PRA and FCA jointly oversee AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Oracle as critical third parties to UK finance.
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The Free Tier Isn’t Dying Loudly. It’s Being Repriced Quietly. And the Developer Pipeline Goes With It.
by Natalia Nowak · 10 Jul 2026 · 9 min read
No platform announced the end of free hosting. They repriced the units instead. The developer on-ramp, PaaS's CAC engine, is quietly closing.
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Which Top-Level Domains Are Worth Carrying? The Abuse Data Most Registrars Never Book.
by Natalia Nowak · 9 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
In some cheap new gTLDs nearly the whole zone turns over in months, and Spamhaus has the data on which extensions carry the heaviest hidden abuse cost.
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DigitalOcean Lands Nine-Figure AI Deals as Its Backlog Jumps Tenfold
by Natalia Nowak · 8 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
DigitalOcean's preliminary Q2 shows nine-figure AI-inference deals and a backlog past $800M, up tenfold, as the developer cloud moves into AI infrastructure.
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team.blue Reports the Climate Trade-Off of Consolidation
by Natalia Nowak · 7 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Hosting's roll-ups are chasing science-based climate targets, but every acquisition imports emissions. team.blue's report documents the tension.
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GoDaddy Warns It May Exit India Over a Domain-Privacy Ruling
by Natalia Nowak · 7 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
GoDaddy is appealing a Delhi High Court ruling forcing registrars to unmask domain owners and drop default WHOIS privacy, warning it may exit India.
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Half a Billion Dollars to Shrink: What Public Filings Say a Hosting Customer Costs in 2026
by Natalia Nowak · 6 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
Wix spent $514M to lose subscribers; GoDaddy's customer base fell for a second year while ARPU jumped. Filings show hosting CAC quietly inflating.
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One of the Largest Planned Data Centers Died on a Notice Technicality
by Natalia Nowak · 6 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
QTS has abandoned the 2,100-acre Prince William Digital Gateway, one of the largest data center campuses ever planned, after courts voided its rezoning.
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You Don’t Own Your .io or .ai. You Rent a Country’s Politics.
by Łukasz Nowak · 2 Jul 2026 · 12 min read
A ccTLD is a trusteeship, not property. Building a brand on .io, .ai, or .ly rents a foreign government's diplomatic status. The unpriced risk, explained.
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AI Agents Now Run Hosting Operations, Not Just Content. Pressable’s June Update Is the Tell.
by Natalia Nowak · 1 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Pressable's June MCP update lets AI agents run backups, SSL, WP-CLI and bulk operations across WordPress hosting, moving agents from content into infrastructure.
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