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cPanel Will Raise Prices Again in 2027. The Licence Has Doubled Since 2019 and Is No Longer the Expensive Part of the Server.
WebPros has emailed partners that cPanel prices rise in 2027, figures to follow. The licence has doubled since 2019 and is now the smaller part of the bill.
Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
Other #automattic#web-hosting
The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
We Ranked Hosting Two Ways. We Resolved 108 GoDaddy Domains: 96 Point at Amazon.
Industry reports #domains#godaddy
Ranked by domains on their nameservers, GoDaddy leads with 73.1 million. Ranked by hosting attribution it falls to 3.5 million, but that column records whose address space a site is served from. We resolved a sample of GoDaddy's domains: 89% land in blocks registered to Amazon.
IONOS Is Cutting 12% of Its Workforce Five Weeks After Raising Its Revenue Outlook.
Stock reports #ai#cloud
IONOS will reduce headcount from about 3,800 to about 3,350, spending around EUR 35 million once to save up to EUR 30 million a year from 2027. IONOS says the savings will be reinvested, including in AI product development and cloud, and its 2026 adjusted EBITDA forecast is unchanged.
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Identity Digital Takes .us From GoDaddy. The Registry Is Down 24 Percent in a Year.
Identity Digital replaces GoDaddy Registry as the .us operator under a 36-month NTIA contract, inheriting 1,858,827 names after a 24 percent fall in a year, even as July's new registrations rose and the latest renewal rate edged up.
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Namecheap Let a Sued Domain Expire and Be Re-Registered. A Judge Wants to Know Why.
Served with an in rem complaint in April 2025, Namecheap let the domain lapse in July and registered it to a new customer in September. The registrar must show cause by October 12 why it should not pay $50,385.
Pricing updates
OVHcloud Unbundled the IP and the Disk. Hetzner Took Its Cheapest Line Off Sale. The Memory Bill Has Reached the Price List.
OVHcloud now bills the disk and the IPv4 separately, up to 21.9 percent more; Hetzner's cheapest cloud line is not for sale. Memory reached the price list.
Pricing updates
cPanel Will Raise Prices Again in 2027. The Licence Has Doubled Since 2019 and Is No Longer the Expensive Part of the Server.
WebPros has emailed partners that cPanel prices rise in 2027, figures to follow. The licence has doubled since 2019 and is now the smaller part of the bill.
Other
ESA Picks OVHcloud and CGI for Digital EO. The Size Is Not Public.
OVHcloud and CGI will help build Digital EO, the ESA system for an archive expected to pass 500 petabytes by 2035, deployed across Italy, France and Germany. It is OVHcloud's second European public award this year, and the one number missing is the price.
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Registrar Number 130 Has Three Weeks to Cure. The Fee File Opened in 2021.
ICANN's breach notice to South Korea's Netpia runs two cases at once. The unpaid fees date to January 2021, while the RDAP failure and seven website concerns come from a compliance check run two days before the letter was sent.
Expert's Voice
The New Upmind Tempo: Why It’s a Ground-Up Rebuild
Upmind has announced Tempo, a ground-up rebuild of its SaaS billing and provisioning platform targeted for early 2027. The new architecture separates billing from service delivery, expands support for usage-based and flexible pricing, moves provisioning into the core, and makes integrations easier to build. Tempo is also designed around multi-brand operations, cross-border compliance and a fully open API-first model.
Industry reports
PanelAlpha to Become the Easiest Way to Host on a VPS With Engine Now Open Source
PanelAlpha has open-sourced Engine 2.0 as the first step in a broader mission to make self-hosting simpler. The new engine expands beyond WordPress, supporting more types of projects while giving users an easier way to deploy and manage them on their own VPS.
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Fourteen Ukrainian Operators Hit in Twelve Days. Moscow Says Data Centers Are the Target.
Between September 15 and 27 at least fourteen named Ukrainian operators reported damage to the facilities carrying their networks, from De Novo and MiroHost to Kyivstar's head office, and the ones that stayed up had already paid for somewhere else to run from.
Security
The WordPress 7.1.2 Flaw Was Exploited in Hours. Theme and Host Decide the Damage.
Attackers were writing PHP files through pearcmd.php by the evening of the day WordPress 7.1.2 shipped, and whether a site is reachable at all depends on its theme layout and on register_argc_argv, which is on by default under cPanel below PHP 8.5.
Industry reports
team.blue Added 600,000 Customers and Still Rounds to 3.3 Million. The Report Says Nothing About the Ones Who Left.
team.blue's 2025 report shows €866M ARR and 600,000 new customers, yet a total still rounded to 3.3 million, in a foreword by a CEO on his way out.
Software reviews
EmDash 1.0 Is Stable. Its Sandboxed Plugins Cannot Touch the Database, and That Is the Whole Pitch.
EmDash 1.0 is stable: marketplace plugins run in isolated Workers with declared capabilities, authors own their registry entries, hosts need Node or Workers.
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Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
Other
Dasabo Gave Customers Ten Days to Upload an ID. Refusal Means Termination and No Refund.
A VPS provider gave customers ten days to upload an ID and a live photo or lose their services, with no refund under clause 14.1 of its terms. Dasabo puts the demand only on flagged accounts. Customers on two forums and Trustpilot describe it reaching people who had only paid.
Industry reports
DropCatch Added 300 Registrars. It Now Holds 45 Percent of All ICANN Accreditations.
TurnCommerce's DropCatch added 300 registrar accreditations in one batch, its first since 2016. IANA's list shows 1,501 of 3,321 accreditations carrying its name, and 1,552 on its infrastructure, against 519 on Newfold's SnapNames.
M&A
HostPapa Bought Ingram Micro’s CloudBlue. A Year Later the Group Is Called Managed.com.
A new name sits above HostPapa. Managed.com launched on September 17 covering five brands and more than twenty acquisitions since 2013, a year after it arranged a USD 130 million facility led by Bank of Montreal and bought CloudBlue from Ingram Micro.
Software reviews
cPanel AI Is Generally Available. Meridian Is in the License. Nova Runs on Credits Nobody Has Priced.
cPanel declared cPanel AI generally available on September 17. Meridian, the AI Assistant, AI App Hosting and MCP sit inside the ordinary license, while Nova is partner-only and metered in AI credits whose wholesale price neither cPanel nor WebPros has published.
Industry reports
Newfold Names Sachin Puri CEO From October 1. Sharon Rowlands Stays as Executive Chair.
Sachin Puri will become CEO of Newfold Digital on October 1, with Sharon Rowlands moving to executive chair. Puri already leads both Bluehost Group and Network Solutions Group and will take over a company serving around 6 million customers, following a period of infrastructure changes, AI investment and debt restructuring.
M&A
Norton’s Owner Has Approached GoDaddy. The Market Marked the Target Up 8.7 Percent and the Bidder Down 6.1.
Gen Digital, the owner of Norton and Avast, has made a takeover approach to GoDaddy, the Financial Times reported on September 24. Talks are early and terms undisclosed. The target rose 8.7 percent to $13.2 billion and the bidder fell 6.1 percent to $14.7 billion, leaving them close in value.
Industry reports
Brussels Will Grade Data Centres From A to G on Power and Water.
The European Commission adopted a delegated regulation on September 21 that turns the figures data centers of 500 kW and up already report into a public A to G label for power and water use. First labels are due by August 15, 2027, and the average PUE reported so far is a D on that scale.