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team.blue completed 11 SaaS acquisitions in 2025. Storyclash, Windsor.ai, and Saleskit are already done in the first quarter of 2026.

The NIS2 Directive is no longer a future compliance problem for hosting providers - it is reshaping products, processes, and pricing right now.

Hosting.com is the first traditional hosting company to launch a product explicitly branded for AI-generated code. The platform, launched March 24, targets both developers using Cursor and Windsurf and non-technical users through a natural language app builder.

Server DRAM prices surged over 100% in Q1 2026 as AI demand consumed fabrication capacity. Then Iranian drones hit Qatar's Ras Laffan facility on March 2, taking 33% of global helium supply offline - and helium is irreplaceable in chip manufacturing. Hetzner is raising prices 30-50%. OVHcloud warns of 15-300% component cost increases. SK Group's chairman says the shortage could last until 2030. For hosting providers, this is not a temporary spike. It is a structural shift in what it costs to run servers, and the next round of price increases has not even arrived yet.

WordPress.com opened write access to its MCP server on March 20, letting AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT create posts, manage comments, and organize content on any paid site. The update adds 19 operations across six content types - and signals a shift in how site management works that hosting providers cannot afford to ignore.

China leads in absolute size, but Vietnam's 24.5% CAGR and Indonesia's infrastructure surge are rewriting the growth playbook. A data-driven breakdown of where the region's hosting revenue is - and where it is heading.

From a $4.5 billion hyperscale campus in Indonesia to Google's new Bangkok region, early 2026 has seen an unprecedented wave of infrastructure investment across Asia-Pacific. Here is what is driving it - and what it means for the hosting industry.

A new survey of 500 US web designers finds 76% fear AI's impact on their industry - but 78.6% still feel properly compensated. For hosting companies, the real story is not designer anxiety but what happens when AI tools replace the channel that has driven hosting sales for two decades. Hostinger Horizons, Extendify, and other AI site builders are already filling that gap - and the hosting companies integrating them are the ones positioned to grow.

At least 11 U.S. states have filed bills to temporarily ban data center construction, while others are rolling back billions in tax incentives. A state-by-state breakdown of every moratorium bill and incentive rollback in 2026.

The .org domain registry will increase its wholesale price starting June 1, 2026, a move that will likely ripple through registrar and hosting pricing in the coming weeks. Public Interest Registry (PIR), which operates the .org extension, is raising the wholesale price from $9.93 to $11 per domain per year.

DreamHost's new Remixer AI builder generates full websites from a text prompt and publishes them directly to hosted domains — no CMS, no lock-in, starting at $1.99/mo.

For the past two years, the same prediction has been repeated across tech media. AI will replace customer support. Chatbots will answer everything. Support teams will shrink or disappear. It sounds convincing in theory. In practice, companies that actually run AI in production are discovering something very different.

The web hosting market continues to grow, but running a hosting business is becoming more complex each year. A global survey of 446 hosting providers shows that 65% of companies reported revenue growth in 2025. At the same time, profitability is becoming harder to achieve. Hosting providers are caught between strong price competition and rising

When people talk about AI in customer support, they usually imagine a chatbot answering simple questions. But in reality, the most interesting implementations go much deeper than that. A good example is Hosting.com - a global hosting company with more than 900 employees and around a million support conversations every month.

In 2025 and early 2026, Newfold Digital, the private equity-backed company behind major hosting brands like Bluehost, HostGator, and Network Solutions, moved from being an infrastructure giant to a headline name in the corporate debt markets. What began as routine refinancing pressure evolved into something much bigger, a conversation about the durability of legacy shared hosting economics and the

Nothing explodes on March 15 at 00:00, and existing certificates keep their original expiry dates. The change hits when you issue or reissue certificates from that point on: the maximum lifetime drops to 200 days, and the industry is already committed to shrinking it further.

A major outage hit Amazon Web Services in the United Arab Emirates after “objects” struck a data centre building, causing sparks and a fire. Local emergency crews cut power to the facility as they worked to put out the fire. What started as a problem in one Availability Zone later spread into a wider regional failure, with two zones impaired and the company warning recovery would take at least a day. 

Hetzner is raising prices across its portfolio beginning April 1, 2026, and the change doesn’t only hit new customers. The company confirms the new pricing applies to both new orders and existing products, and even orders placed before April 1 can be billed at the new rates if delivery happens after that date.

TL;DR - The Government of Monaco lost an attempt to seize Monaco.com from a private owner using UDRP. This was proof that governments do not automatically control matching names in .com, even when the name is a country. Unlike ccTLDs, gTLDs still operate under trademark and bad-faith rules, not state sovereignty. What happened The Government

TL;DR - EuroDNS updated retail prices for 29 domains, including .ai and .health, following registry changes. The new prices take effect between 1 March and 1 April 2026, depending on the domain. New domain prices published  by EuroDNS  According to the announcement, new EuroDNS retail prices take effect on three dates: 1 March 2026, 5