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Latest Events news, updates and analysis from the web hosting industry — 15 articles.
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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.
Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
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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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Atlas Digital Summit Debuts in Reykjavik: Two Days on What AI Does to the Hosting Business
A 1927 Reykjavik theater hosts the first Atlas Digital Summit on September 28-29: two keynotes, six executive roundtable blocks in parallel Hosting and Security tracks, curated by Jason Nickerson of Domain Days Dubai. Invite-only, C-level, with AI as the thread through every session.
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A Month Before Riga: What the First BalticNOG Delivered in Vilnius
The first BalticNOG put Geoff Huston's encryption doubts and Ukraine's wartime network lessons on one Vilnius stage. A month before Riga, that program is the best argument for going. Our co-founder was there; this year we watch from afar.
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What WebHosting.Today Learned at WordCamp US 2026
WordCamp US 2026 drew close to 1,200 people to Phoenix, more than a third of them first-timers, and shipped 21 contributions in a reimagined Contributor Day. Porkbun, Hosting.com, BigScoots and CloudLinux told us how they are handling AI and faster threats, and what brings them to events.
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BalticNOG 2026: What the Baltic Network Operators Meeting in Riga Means for Hosting Providers
BalticNOG moves from Vilnius to Riga for its second edition. On paper it is a network operators meeting. Read the sponsor list and the topics and it is a hosting infrastructure event, from IPv4 leasing to BGP hijacks to peering.
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Webhosting Today Experts Join Exclusive Delegate Roster at Domain Summit Europe 2026
Domain Summit Europe 2026 opens August 16 in Kempten, Germany, capping attendance at 60 invited delegates. Three of our experts, Frederick Schiwek, Michiel Grotenhuis and Daniel Stanica, join two days of executive sessions on European hosting and domains, August 17-18.
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CloudFest Americas Takes Shape: Miami’s Speakers and Themes So Far
CloudFest Americas lands at Miami's Ice Palace Studios on November 11-12, 2026, the Americas edition of Europe's flagship cloud festival. Organizers expect 2,000+ attendees across keynotes, roundtables and a NamesCon co-location, with a five-theme program spanning AI, security and growth.
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Nordic Domain Days 2026: What Stockholm Told the Hosting Industry
Nordic Domain Days 2026 wrapped May 26 in Stockholm with around 450 attendees. The 2026 gTLD round, NIS2 Article 28 enforcement, and AI-as-infrastructure were the three threads hosting providers should take home from the event.
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WordCamp Europe 2026: A Hosting Industry Guide to the Schedule
WordCamp Europe 2026 opens June 4 in Kraków with Contributor Day plus two conference days. The Inside WordPress 7.0 panel anchors Friday. Hosting-specific sessions cover stress testing, secure hosting, DDoS, and CERN's 800-site migration. Over a dozen hosting companies sponsor.
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WordCamp Europe 2026, Kraków: Why the Hosting Industry Shows Up
WordCamp Europe is where WordPress platform decisions get made in public before they reach the market. The 2026 edition runs June 4-6 in Kraków, two weeks after WordPress 7.0 ships. For hosting providers, being in the room matters more this year than most.
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Google Cloud Next ’26: What Actually Changed
At Cloud Next '26 in Las Vegas, Google introduced eighth-generation TPUs, a 4x-bandwidth data center network, 10 TB/s storage, and a $750 million partner fund. Production results from Citadel Securities, Deutsche Telekom, and GE Appliances show what the platform delivers at scale. Here is what hosting providers and IT buyers need to know.
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WP Engine’s DE{CODE} 2026: Agenda Overview
DE{CODE} 2026 brings together 7,500+ developers, agencies, and digital leaders on May 6 in two regional broadcasts. For hosting providers, the bot management session with Cloudflare, the ACF machine-readable content update, and the WordPress 7.0 preview are the most operationally relevant sessions. Registration is free and available separately for EMEA and the United States.
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Inside PressConf and the Power of Clarity
PressConf gathered agency founders and hosting executives from WP Engine, GoDaddy, Hostinger, DreamHost, and a dozen other companies in Tempe, Arizona for a single-track, curated conference with no expo floor and no badge scans. The clearest finding: agencies are not asking hosting partners for more features or lower prices, they are asking for trust, reliable support, and partnerships that reduce operational complexity.
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WordCamp Asia 2026: Mumbai, April 9–11, and a Live WordPress 7.0 Release
The fourth edition of WordCamp Asia runs April 9-11 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai. Over 3,000 attendees, 50+ speakers, three conference tracks, and a live WordPress 7.0 release on Contributor Day. With Hostinger, Bluehost, Kinsta, and Google among the sponsors, this is where the WordPress hosting business shows up.
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WordCamp Europe 2026 Is in Kraków This June – and If You Work in Hosting, You Should Be There
WordCamp Europe 2026 takes place June 4–6 at ICE Kraków in Poland, and for hosting companies it is the most important WordPress event of the year. With AI Connectors in core, new server requirements for collaborative editing, and a security process under scrutiny, the decisions made in Kraków will directly shape how hosting providers support WordPress at scale.
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PressConf 2026 : The Business of WordPress
After CloudFest: Don’t Miss PressConf 2026 CloudFest draws the top global players in hosting and infrastructure. Big announcements and back-to-back meetings keep the industry’s leaders center stage. After a much-needed post-CloudFest reset,