Industry reports — Web Hosting News

Porkbun has hit a major milestone: more than 3 million domains are now under its management. For a company that entered the scene in 2015, the achievement highlights just how far it has come in less than a decade.

When you look at the hosting industry, you don’t expect much change. Most companies move slow, stick to old playbooks, and call it innovation when they add a new control panel theme.

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he first day of the Domain Summit London 2025 has officially wrapped, and you can feel the energy. Industry leaders, innovators, and domain enthusiasts from around the globe have gathered at the prestigious "Business Design Center" for what is already shaping up to be an unforgettable event. As the day's sessions conclude, we're left with a wealth of new ideas and a renewed sense of community.

Exciting news for users from France with strong GDPR and privacy demands that need hosting services! Hosting.de GmbH, a leading web hosting provider based in Aachen, Germany, is expanding its cloud hosting.

For over a dozen years, it’s been one of those names that inspired a sense of security in the hosting industry: ConfigServer. For server administrators using cPanel or DirectAdmin, it has become almost synonymous with stability. The CSF firewall, exploit scanners, spam monitoring — a suite of tools that over the years has become a standard.

Rocket.net - the fast-rising managed WordPress platform that barely existed six years ago and is already making noise at the top of the market - is officially joining forces with Hosting.com

Hostinger has added Kuala Lumpur to its global network of data centers, strengthening its footprint in one of the most dynamic digital markets worldwide. The new facility is aimed at businesses and creators who serve audiences in Southeast Asia, where speed and stability can directly influence how users interact with online services.

Is AI finally ready to make hosting management less about firefighting and more about prevention? Cloudways, part of DigitalOcean, is betting on it. Today, the company announced the general availability of Cloudways

In November 2025, Radix will move its entire portfolio of domain extensions from Team Internet, formerly known as CentralNic, to Tucows Registry. This is not a small adjustment in the background. It involves around ten million domain names across eleven TLDs, including .online, .store, .tech, .site, .fun, .host, .press, .space, .uno, .website, and the country-code .pw.

We’ve officially crossed the 371-million mark in domain registrations worldwide, and no one’s entirely sure whether we should be impressed… or concerned. According to latest Domain Name Industry Brief (Q2 2025), the internet is growing in a way that’s both predictable and increasingly chaotic. It's a little like watching a city expand while some of its buildings collapse quietly in the background.

WP Engine announced the launch of its AI toolkit designed specifically for WordPress websites. The toolkit includes three core features: Smart Search AI, AI-Powered Recommendations, and a Managed Vector Database with an open-source chatbot framework.

Imagine signing up for web hosting and having someone build your website for free. No fuss, no page builders, no AI involved. You just sit down, fill out a form, and the DreamHost team takes care of the rest. From scratch. By hand. And it looks good. Sounds absurd? Yet it’s real - this is an actual offer.

In a rapidly evolving web hosting industry, a new player has emerged from a team of familiar faces. BuiltFast.com, is a hosting company founded by former A2 Hosting executives Paul Carter, Justin

After years of handling the .CO domain, GoDaddy has lost its role as the official registry. A new partnership, called Consórcio Equipo PuntoCo, made up of Germany’s Team Internet and Colombia’s Central Comercializadora de Internet (CCI), has won the contract to operate Colombia’s country-code top-level domain (ccTLD), .CO, for the next ten years.

AEserver, one of the UAE’s earliest web hosting and domain name providers, is celebrating its 20th anniversary - a rare milestone in the fast-moving tech world. Founded in 2005 by Munir Badr, AEserver began with a clear purpose: to make it easier for people and businesses in the UAE to register domains and host websites without relying on expensive or complicated international services.

The Linux Foundation has just announced something big for WordPress users and developers - the FAIR Package Manager project. This new tool promises to change the way plugins and themes are shared and updated, making the WordPress ecosystem more stable, secure, and open.

HostPapa, a Canadian company that helps businesses create and manage their online presence, just hit a big milestone. Jamie Opalchuk, Founder and CEO of HostPapa, proudly shared the news on LinkedIn - they have secured $130 million in new financing, led by the Bank of Montreal along with several other major banks.

Big news for domain investors and startup founders: Atom, known for its domain marketplace and branding platform, has officially become an ICANN-accredited registrar. The company shared the announcement on its LinkedIn profile, marking a fresh start in the domain space.

Richard Kirkendall, CEO of Namecheap, announced on X.com on May 8 that Spaceship — a Namecheap-affiliated brand — has officially released Thunderbolt, a brand-new encrypted communication app that uses your domain name as your identifier instead of a phone number or email address.