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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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M&A
HostPapa Bought Ingram Micro’s CloudBlue. A Year Later the Group Is Called Managed.com.
A new name sits above HostPapa. Managed.com launched on September 17 covering five brands and more than twenty acquisitions since 2013, a year after it arranged a USD 130 million facility led by Bank of Montreal and bought CloudBlue from Ingram Micro.
Security
A Magento Zero-Day Is Being Exploited Now. The First Known Victim Was Fully Patched.
Attackers are running code on Magento and Adobe Commerce stores through an unpatched flaw Sansec calls StyleSmuggler. There is no patch and no CVE, the first known victim had a clean patch status, and the backdoor installs in the site user's home directory rather than the web root.
M&A
cyber_Folks Has Over PLN 1 Billion of M&A Capacity. Hosting Is Not the Priority
cyber_Folks puts its capacity for further acquisitions above PLN 1 billion and says the activity will be concentrated in e-commerce. Its hosting arm earns a 51 percent adjusted margin and a quarter of group earnings, while the segment being bought into reported an operating loss.
Events
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.
Software reviews
WooCommerce 10.9 Ships Seven Agent Abilities in Core
WooCommerce 10.9 reaches stable June 23 with seven canonical abilities, five of them write operations, exposed through the Abilities API and MCP. The permission callback is the new security boundary; a Store API change that cuts draft-order writes is a quiet win for hosting economics.
Industry reports
We Audited the AI-Crawl Posture of Hosting Companies. Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes.
We audited 736 hosting and infrastructure companies: 90% of the measurable declare no AI-crawler policy. The 58 that do reveal five strategies.
Industry reports
WooCommerce 10.9 Ships Agent Abilities. The Hard Part Now Belongs to the Hosts.
WooCommerce 10.9 (stable June 23) ships canonical, MCP-exposable abilities for products and orders across 4.3M live stores. Shopify flipped agentic storefronts on for 5.6M merchants; WooCommerce has no central switch, making agent access the hosting industry's next managed-service battleground.
Industry reports
Shared Hosting Has Not Raised Prices Yet. The Hardware Bill Is Coming.
AI infrastructure competes with traditional hosting for the same DRAM. VPS and dedicated servers have repriced. Shared hosting adjusts last - with 3-5 year hardware cycles, the bill arrives at renewal. Two cost vectors are already building.
Expert's Voice
What Indian Hosting Customers Are Teaching the Global Hosting Industry
India crossed 950 million internet users in 2025. Indian hosting customers are forcing the industry to rethink what "good hosting" means: simplicity, transparency, bundled support, AI-assisted onboarding, and a focus on business outcomes over infrastructure specs.
Industry reports
95% of New European Sites on Traditional Hosting Launch Without Embedded AI. ShareShift Maps the Gap.
A ShareShift.io analysis of over 3 million new European domains shows that 95% of new sites on traditional hosting infrastructure launch without embedded AI, while Wix reaches 100% and GoDaddy 26%. The gap reflects business model, not technology.
Interviews
Some Hosts Are Losing a Lot of Sites – Lasse Hall, CEO of Servebolt
At Hosts Del Mar, Lasse Hall, CEO of Servebolt, on why PE consolidation does not worry him with 350,000 hosting companies globally, why some hosts are losing a lot of sites to AI-driven competitors, and why the next two to three years change hosting drastically.
Industry reports
Patchstack Now Underpins Most Major Managed WordPress Hosts. GoDaddy Joined the Stack.
Patchstack became the default WordPress vulnerability intelligence and virtual patching layer for managed hosting. GoDaddy joined as a full-integration partner in April 2026; WP Engine, Cloudways, Hostinger, Nexcess, Pantheon and most other major hosts already use Patchstack threat intelligence.
Expert's Voice
AI Makes Smaller SMBs Serviceable
AI is making micro-SMBs easier to serve by reducing the effort needed to launch, support, and grow their online presence.
Industry reports
Hetzner Has Now Raised Prices Three Times in 2026. This One Is Different.
Hetzner announced its third price move of 2026 on May 27, effective June 15. New orders only, portfolio standardised into -1/-2/-3 tiers, and a new Limited tier introduces hardware segmentation as a structural market shift. Other European hosts will face pressure to follow.
Interviews
Hosting Is the Next Layer AI Will Transform – Vito Peleg, CEO of Atarim
Vito Peleg of Atarim on why he reads AI as the biggest opportunity hosting has had in fifteen years, how today's vibe coders mirror the server-in-the-bedroom generation that built today's hosting market, and why reactive agencies feel like a tax while proactive ones win.
M&A
CyberFolks and Shoper Agree to Merge Into a Single Listed Entity Valued at €1 Billion
CyberFolks will absorb Shoper through a share exchange at 0.2281 CyberFolks shares per Shoper share, forming a single Warsaw-listed entity valued at €1 billion. The merged group holds Shoper, PrestaShop, MailerLite, and Sylius, covering most of the e-commerce stack across Europe.
Interviews
Vibe Coding Rebuilt Our Entire Stack – Munir, Founder of aeServer.com
Munir, Founder of aeServer.com, on using vibe coding to automate domain registrations and rebuild their customer-facing stack, the new wave of online businesses in the Middle East, and whether Domain Days Dubai is happening this October.
Industry reports
More Revenue. Less Profit. What iomart’s FY2026 Reveals About Mid-Market Hosting.
iomart closed FY2026 with a profit warning, a CFO departure, and a credit facility expiring in June 2027. Its H1 numbers (revenue up 25%, EBITDA down 24%, net debt at £109.6m) make visible a squeeze that Rackspace, OVHcloud, and UKCloud have each encountered in their own way.
Security
A Ransomware Group’s Backend Was Leaked Because Their Hosting Provider Got Hacked First.
On May 2, hosting provider 4VPS disclosed a breach of its billing systems. Two days later, The Gentlemen ransomware group's backend appeared for sale online. Check Point Research confirmed the dataset included victim lists, ransom negotiations, and internal communications from one of 2026's most active ransomware operations.
Security
Skynethosting Took Its Entire cPanel Fleet Offline on May 1. Two Weeks Later, Some Are Still Down.
Skynethosting took its entire cPanel fleet offline on May 1 in response to CVE-2026-41940, and as of May 14 some customer servers had been down for nearly two weeks, with one reseller publicly reporting a 30 percent client loss during the outage.