Category: Industry reports

The November 2026 .com price hike is the first of four annual increases Verisign can take through 2029. Wholesale could reach $13.45.

Plesk 18.0.77 brings accessibility compliance, new SSL tooling, and APS Catalog removal. Pricing is up 26 percent since January. AI Copilot has no ship date.

The hosting market is saturated and price wars are eroding margins. Discover how bundling WordPress support services helps providers build deeper customer relationships and compete on value, not cost.

iomart's revenue grew 25% and its EBITDA fell 24%. The gap between those two numbers explains the structural problem facing mid-market hosting in 2026.

Six European providers raised VPS prices up to 49% in spring 2026. US hyperscalers are benefiting. The full price map and what drives the divide.

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.