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auDA's board backed removing a .com.au allocation route in principle, while approving no change to the rules that allow domain monetization.

group.one's Ask Aida completed 95% of tasks in initial customer testing. Three areas still required human support.

Cloudflare changes its AI crawler defaults on September 15. Sites that already block training will start blocking Googlebot, Applebot and BingBot.

Aruba applied for 39 TLD strings, including vps and a set of Italian picks. The private auction that won it .cloud in the 2012 round is now banned.

Automattic's board put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave and made CFO Mark Davies interim CEO. No change has been announced to his leadership of WordPress.

Hostinger folded Kodee and its growth agents into Hostinger Agent. On hard cases, specialists now advise the AI, and resolution rose from 41 to 72 percent.

Proton's Frankfurt cooling failed and the room hit 51.9C within half an hour. The postmortem explains why saving scarce hardware beat a faster recovery.

Technical issues hit 78 Namecheap shared servers on August 26, the second outage in 13 days. Resolved in the evening, with no cause given.

UpCloud founder and CTO Joel Pihlajamaa is now CEO, succeeding Arno Schäfer after roughly 15 months, putting the European cloud firm under founder leadership.

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