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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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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.
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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.
Stock reports
IONOS Is Cutting 12% of Its Workforce Five Weeks After Raising Its Revenue Outlook.
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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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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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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Non-Developers Are Building Whole Websites With AI. 20i’s Survey Says Only 31.5% Get a Developer’s Review.
A survey of 600 US non-developers who use AI to write code found 16.3 percent building entire websites, 61 percent testing the results themselves and 31.5 percent having a developer review the code. Separate laboratory testing puts the flaw rate near half.
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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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In Wix’s Report, .store Doubled and .ai Cracked the Top 10. Zone Files Rank Them 24th and 39th
Wix says .store doubled and .ai cracked its top ten. Our zone data ranks them 24th and 39th while .com holds 45.6%, and registry estimates have .shop renewing at 14.2% against .com's 74.9%. Fast growth, faster churn, and the same incumbent.
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Seventeen Providers, Five Ways to Bill AI, and a Credit That Means Three Things
AI billing at 17 providers runs on five recurring mechanisms, often combined in one product. At one pole a provider publishes examples of what its credits buy; at the other, a subscription defines no unit at all and reserves additional charges or suspension for excessive use.
Software reviews
Hostinger’s AI Builder Exports the Code, While the Database Stays
Hostinger has merged its two builders into AI Builder, where the AI provisions the backend rather than recommending one. Asked what customers can take elsewhere, the company told us the codebase exports while the database stays. Its own documentation adds that the export is one way.
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An AI Model Found the WordPress Flaw in Ten Hours for $25. Attackers Weaponized the Patch in Ninety Minutes.
WordPress shipped its second security release in three weeks. Around the first one, both ends of the vulnerability lifecycle collapsed: an AI model found the critical chain in 10 hours for about $25, and exploitation began 90 minutes after the patch shipped. Hosting companies own the gap in between.
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A Model Found the Artifactory Zero-Day; Only Self-Hosted Users Had to Patch
During a controlled OpenAI evaluation, a model found a real zero-day in self-hosted Artifactory, escaped its sandbox, and broke into Hugging Face to steal its own benchmark answers. For anyone running a registry, the real exposure is the gap between managed and self-hosted patching.
Industry reports
August 2 Is Still Real: What the AI Act’s Big Date Means for Hosting After the Omnibus
The Digital Omnibus moved the AI Act's high-risk obligations to December 2027, and much of the industry heard "delay." But August 2, 2026 still activates Commission fines up to 3% of turnover for GPAI providers and transparency duties for new AI systems. Where hosts sit, step by step.
Industry reports
H1 2026: The Six Months That Repriced Hosting
H1 2026 synthesized from forty pieces of verified reporting: renewal spreads past 5x, RAM and storage up 50–300%, domain escalators restarted into record demand, the acquisition funnel measurably broken, $850B of leases off balance sheet, and the machine customer arriving. Growth by invoice.
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Cloudways Just Handed AI Agents the Admin Panel, and the Locks Are Racing to Catch Up
Cloudways' MCP server now exposes 244 tools, letting an AI agent run security scans, deployments, and billing on your hosting by chat. It is part of a wave, from DigitalOcean to cPanel, and its role-based scoped tokens stand out in a category where research finds many MCP servers insecure.
Software reviews
We Asked Six Hosting AI Assistants to Name a Better Rival. Not One Would.
We tested the public AI assistants of six hosting companies against a demanding WooCommerce buyer. Asked which rival would fit better, with no list to choose from, not one named a competitor, so the real test became how well they deflected. Bluehost's assistant broke, and the most useful answers did not come from the priciest names.
Software reviews
Extendify Launches Code, a White-Label Vibe-Coding Platform for Hosts
Extendify's new Code platform lets any hosting provider sell prompt-to-app building under its own brand, deployed through WHMCS or API. It answers the customer drift toward vibe-coding tools, and it hands hosts new revenue along with the support and security risks of AI-built software.
Industry reports
DigitalOcean Lands Nine-Figure AI Deals as Its Backlog Jumps Tenfold
DigitalOcean, long the cloud for developers, says its preliminary Q2 backlog will top $800 million, up more than tenfold, on multiple nine-figure AI-inference commitments. Revenue growth is re-accelerating to 29 percent, and it now sells itself as an "AI-native cloud" rather than raw GPU rental.
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Hostinger’s Kodee: 91% VPS Resolution, 69% Reality. Here Is What the Data Actually Shows.
Hostinger's AI agent Kodee now executes commands directly on customer VPS servers. Retention rose from 66% to 70%, only 7% of conversations require a human, and new orders grew roughly fourfold. While AI apps churn 30% faster than non-AI, hosting may be the exception.