Category: Industry reports

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.

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.

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.

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.

A quarter into Visa's April 2026 VAMP change, the "excessive disputes" threshold now sits at 150bps, a live margin cost for hosting's renewal model.

A minor GoDaddy Airo site-creation incident shows AI builders are now part of onboarding and provisioning, not just marketing.

Hostinger gave its AI agent Kodee terminal access to customer VPS. Retention rose from 66% to 70%, and only 7% of conversations need a human.

Bluehost's AI Confidence report: 34% of SMBs say their website matters more since AI, not less. Only 13% optimize for AI search.

FERC gave six US grid operators 60 days to fix large-load interconnection; the queue, not the GPU, is the binding constraint on compute.