Category: Industry reports

The first chance in 14 years to apply for a new domain ending closes August 12. The fee: $227,000. Country names need not apply.

GoDaddy added 22,000 customers in Q2 2026 and still grew revenue 6.6%. The growth comes from the base paying more, not from new accounts.

Google switched off AdSense for Domains, and the quiet ad business behind millions of parked domains ended with it. The traffic moved somewhere riskier.

Verisign spent a decade and $135 million to win .web. Unlike its government-capped .com, it can price the new domain however it wants.

The omnibus delayed the AI Act's high-risk regime, not August 2. GPAI fines and transparency duties still arrive on schedule. Hosting's map of who owes what.

Drone strikes and fire have kept an AWS cloud region offline for months. The cloud has a physical address, and choosing a region carries real risk.

From September 1, every .ru owner must prove their identity to the Russian government or lose the domain. A reminder that a country code answers to its government.

Every layer of hosting got a new price, owner or regulator in H1 2026. Our half-year of instruments, synthesized: growth by invoice, not by customer.

Cloudways now lets AI agents run almost your whole hosting account by chat. Its role-based tokens are a rare guardrail in a category where MCP security lags.

GoDaddy opened its domain API to AI agents, but unlike the first wave, it writes a recorded consent step and scoped spending into the purchase itself.