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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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GitHub, Salesforce and SharePoint Went Down in Four Days. Nobody Attacked Them.
A GitHub cleanup job saturated the database behind every authenticated request. A Salesforce legacy login service stalled during Dreamforce. A Microsoft configuration change blanked SharePoint pages. Three platforms, four days, and trouble that started inside a shared service path.
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Elementor Opens an MCP Beta to Claude, Codex and Cursor
Elementor, on more than ten million sites, has opened a beta letting Claude, Codex, Cursor and other MCP tools build pages as native Elementor structures. It runs on atomic pages, output stays a draft, and three of the nine capabilities need a second Elementor plugin.
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auDA Backs Removing a .com.au Allocation Route. Domain Monetization Stays Allowed.
auDA approved in principle a recommendation deleting the clause that lets a .com.au domain match a service, goods or premises. In the same package it kept domain monetization allowed, a pairing the panel's minority calls inconsistent. No rule has changed yet.
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group.one’s Ask Aida Completed 95% of Tasks in Customer Testing. Three Areas Still Required Human Support.
In initial customer testing, Ask Aida completed 95% of tasks. Authentication, some external invoicing and abuse cases still required human support.
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Cloudflare Changes Its Crawler Defaults on September 15. Sites Blocking AI Training Will Start Blocking Googlebot.
Cloudflare changes its AI crawler defaults on September 15. Crawlers that do more than one job will be judged by all of their behaviors, so sites that already block AI training will start blocking Googlebot. The new ad-page defaults reach every free-plan site left untouched.
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Aruba Applied for 39 TLD Strings. The Private Auction That Won It .cloud Is Now Banned.
Aruba, the Italian host that runs .cloud, told Domain Name Wire it applied for 39 strings in ICANN's 2026 round, among them vps, demo and pec. It won .cloud in a private auction, the route the new rules ban, which leaves an ICANN auction or a free switch to a fallback.
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Automattic’s Board Put Matt Mullenweg on Paid Leave. He Still Leads the WordPress Project.
Automattic's board has put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, with chief financial officer Mark Davies as interim chief executive. The change stops at the commercial company: no change has been announced to his leadership of the WordPress project or to his control of WordPress.org.
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Most of Hostinger’s Hardest Support Cases No Longer Transfer to a Human. The Human Coaches the AI Instead.
Hostinger has merged its support assistant Kodee with its marketing and SEO agents into Hostinger Agent. The bigger change is behind it: on the one conversation in ten the AI cannot settle alone, a specialist advises it instead of taking over, and hard-case resolution rose from 41 to 72 percent.
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Proton’s Frankfurt Outage Report: 20 Minutes to Critical, and Hardware Too Scarce to Sacrifice
Proton's outage report is direct about what went wrong: a night-time filter change on both compressors killed the cooling, AI-era density cut the time-to-critical from hours to 20 minutes, and engineers chose to power servers down rather than lose hardware the AI boom has made hard to replace.
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Namecheap’s Second Hosting Outage This Month Hits 78 Shared Servers
Namecheap's second hosting outage in 13 days hit 78 shared servers on August 26 and was resolved after two hours and twenty minutes of status updates. Unlike the Phoenix cooling failure, this one ended with no cause given.
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UpCloud’s Founder Becomes CEO After a 15-Month Outside Hire
UpCloud has named founder Joel Pihlajamaa as chief executive, ending Arno Schäfer's roughly 15-month tenure and putting the Helsinki cloud provider under founder-led leadership. The company frames it as a natural evolution and a signal that its sovereign, engineering-led strategy stays the course.
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Meet the New webhosting.today: The Hosting Market Now Has a Scoreboard
The new webhosting.today is live. Market Insights resolves 400M domains and fingerprints 24M hosting IPs monthly, profiling 3,400+ operators across 110+ countries, down to which competitors each host wins and loses domains to. Free to browse; registration opens the full engine.
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The EU Just Aimed Its Gatekeeper Rules at AWS and Azure for the First Time, and It Used AI to Do It
For the first time, the European Commission aimed its Digital Markets Act at cloud, preliminarily designating AWS and Azure as gatekeepers on qualitative grounds and naming AI dependence as the lock-in. Remedies on portability and egress would hand European hosts a switching-cost edge.
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Team Internet Pursues £20M Damages Claim While Its Domain Division Goes to Market
Team Internet generated $566.9M from Google in 2023. After successive AFD policy changes cut parking revenue, it is now pursuing a £20M+ antitrust claim and selling its Domains, Identity & Software division - which the board values above the group's market cap.
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We Tested Six Website Builder AIs With an Apple Pie Recipe. Not All of Them Are Actually AI.
We asked six AI website builder assistants for an apple pie recipe. The results split into three categories: capable and unconstrained, capable and properly constrained, and not really AI at all. The last group is the most surprising.
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Hostinger Promotes Its Product and Technology Chief to CEO as AI Becomes the Business
Hostinger promoted product and technology chief Giedrius Zakaitis to CEO, with Daugirdas Jankus moving to strategic initiatives.
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Automattic Turns the WordPress Admin Into a Desktop Software
Automattic's Desktop Mode turns /wp-admin into a desktop OS: resizable windows, a dock, virtual desktops, and AI search. Built in three days during Radical Speed Month, it signals the same UX rethink behind WordPress 7.0 and WooCommerce 10.9.
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Why a Battery Room Fire in Delhi Disrupted Google Cloud Across Three Indian Cities
A 200 sq ft battery room fire in Delhi disrupted Google Cloud across three cities on June 9. Compute stayed operational. The failure was in a third-party network POP, not a region. It reveals how hyperscalers build network presence in growth markets before owning the infrastructure.