Category: Industry reports

GoDaddy is now at the center of two AI agent identity initiatives: a Cloudflare product partnership and a 30-company HOL standards consortium. DNS is becoming the address book for AI agents, and the registrar is positioned to be the gatekeeper.

Matt Mullenweg called WordPress development "boring or mediocre crap," then overruled core committers to add Akismet to the WordPress 7.0 Connectors screen, weeks before the May 20 release.

WordPress 7.0 is now scheduled. The core team published a revised plan on April 22 after a delay caused by unresolved issues in the real-time collaboration feature.

The industry has spent a year building tools to block AI crawlers. Cloudflare's new readiness score asks the opposite question: is your site ready to work with agents? Only 4% of the top 200,000 domains are.

Cloudflare's Registrar API, in beta since April 15, lets AI agents register domains without human approval. Domain registration is becoming an automated infrastructure step.

Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents on April 8 as a hosted runtime for agent sandboxing, checkpointing, and credential management at $0.08 per session-hour. Two days later, infrastructure stocks fell 11 to 18 percent.

WP Engine's survey of 214 agencies finds the AI gap between leaders and laggards is already three times wide on client services, while one in six agencies says their clients are not asking for AI at all.

PrestaShop opened a formal French layoff process on April 10, eight weeks after Cyber_Folks completed its €53.7 million acquisition of the platform.

Full-year 2025 .com domain data shows GoDaddy registering 7.9 million new domains but finishing with roughly 1 million fewer under management than it started with. Namecheap gained approximately 1.9 million, the largest gain of any registrar.

Colocation vacancy in the Americas ended 2025 at 4.2 percent, near historical lows, and the supply that was supposed to relieve it is not arriving. Sightline Climate estimates 30 to 50 percent of the 2026 US data center pipeline will be delayed or canceled, with only 5 GW of the 12 to 16 GW planned actually under construction.