Category: Industry reports

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.

The Global Domain Report 2026 shows .ai past one million registrations and traces the demand rebound directly to AI-assisted development tools driving domain registration as an embedded step in the build process.

DRAM contract prices more than doubled in Q1 2026, and a small but growing number of hosting operators have responded by deploying gaming consoles from the 1980s and 1990s as production web servers, citing a 2010 US Air Force supercomputer as their proof of concept.

Three separate US Senate actions in 48 hours last week targeted data center energy consumption while the EU, which made reporting mandatory in 2023, is already moving to efficiency ratings and minimum performance standards.