Category: Industry reports

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.

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.

No platform announced the end of free hosting. They repriced the units instead. The developer on-ramp, PaaS's CAC engine, is quietly closing.

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.

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.

Hosting's roll-ups are chasing science-based climate targets, but every acquisition imports emissions. team.blue's report documents the tension.

GoDaddy is appealing a Delhi High Court ruling forcing registrars to unmask domain owners and drop default WHOIS privacy, warning it may exit India.

Wix spent $514M to lose subscribers; GoDaddy's customer base fell for a second year while ARPU jumped. Filings show hosting CAC quietly inflating.